Sorry to hear about all your difficulties. But I’m happy to see you are getting more informed and learning different perspectives by reading: that’s one way of getting ideas that might be helpful.

If you haven’t tried it already, I would suggest meeting with a counselor or therapist. I would especially suggest one who knows how to help you focus on dealling with exactly the kinds of mental events that cause you trouble. If you can, find one who understands that when we try to get rid of disturbing things in our mind, we sometimes make them stronger, while when we can just accept the unpleasant thought or image or whatever, we often can shift our focus to how to pursue our values and get on with our lives.

Wishing you well on your journey.

I am suffering since 8 years from a mental illness. MY psychiatrist told me that it is schizophrenia, and I’ve been taking meds (Abilify) for a year long now. I have passed through many difficult times, horrible and painful days and nights; to such extend that I even tried to suicide twice!

I am now at a point of time where I can’t continue anymore like this, and I want and must recover from this illness. I have hallucinations; I see horrible things in my mind, and I feel horrible things in my body. I can’t eat nor drink in peace; in fact I can’t even rest in peace. The only peace I have is while sleeping.

If you have any advice for me, a plan to stop this illness which I suffer from for 8 years now; please do let me know.

May God bless you, and keep you safe.
Peace!

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But the word is so corrupted in common use and the propaganda of Pharma will predominate because of their wealth.
It’s probably better to dump this neologism (started in the ’80′s about three years after I was cured).

Best to find another word.

You can find a practitioner, and learn more on the main site -

http://eftuniverse.com

My best,

Duane

it probably would be better to take this discussion over to your blog, as having so much on one “side” topic might discourage others from posting on the original post.

My SSRI paper contrasts the medical (chemical and surgical) approach of Dr. Jay Goldstein, an acknowledged expert in chronic fatigue syndrome, with the correction of that syndrome via the same neural pathways but with the far more beneficent use of high-frequency sound. The immune system is strongly affected by the health of the ear. My CFS was partly an immune dysfunction and was healed by about 7 1/2 hours of music stimulation. My SSRI study notes immune system dysfunction caused by antidepressants. That appalling array of side effects of psychoactive drugs corresponds to sectors of the spectrum of ear-related mental and physical conditions that have already been shown to be susceptible to healing with sound; some of them definitely fall in the category of immune responses. The Appendix to the SSRI study lists about 2,000 symptoms reported by 107 people in withdrawal from SSRIs or dealing with residual symptoms from 6 months to 10 years after discontinuation. They are the same symptoms recognized by Goldstein in his CFS patients, and in classic descriptions of dyslexia, depression, suicidal depression, bipolarity, and schizophrenia. The immune system definitely is part of the picture of so-called “mental” illness.

Etiology
Etiology matters only if you are intellectually driven and if you want to understanding the healing. At first, I didn’t. I just wanted to find an answer for Daniel’s dyslexic syndrome. I understood neither Daniel’s healing from dyslexia nor my healing from CFS. Other healings of family members would come much later. Actually, the Tomatis Method people didn’t fully understand what they were able to facilitate, either. I sensed that what was happening to Daniel was on the cutting edge of knowledge about behaviour. But the Tomatis practitioners could not provide explanations I found adequate. Dan became psychotic a few days after his dyslexia healing and all hell broke loose. It took me years of observation and research and many, many blind alleys to figure out the ear-brain relationship and what happens when you stimulate a damaged stapedius muscle with the music of violins (whether or not you filter it).

I am not using comforting but impossibly vague words about “enhancing wellness.” I am talking about extremely hard-nosed science: the possibility of precisely measuring audio-processing that departs from normal– in the same sense one measures blood pressure , the acuity of vision, and blood sugar — and possibly (certainly not coercively) instilling fully normal brain function through ear stimulation in someone who has the classic symptoms of schizophrenia. Or bipolarity. Or depression, including suicidal depression. Or OCD. Or substance abuse. Or chronic fatigue syndrome. Or SSRI withdrawal syndrome. In fact, I am offering new and scientific definitions of those inadequately understood patterns of behaviour. I am showing that they are phases on a continuous spectrum of middle and inner ear function that supports or fails to support the dominance of the left hemisphere of the brain. I have opened the door to accurate calibration of those conditions as audio-processing deficits that can be healed, just as Bérard pegged the degrees of depression from the “2-8” down to the “1-8” profile and healed his depressed patients including most of those who were suicidal. I have shown that one of the most severe forms of ear malfunction (caused by various different kinds of assaults on the ear)—schizophrenia—can be healed with high-frequency music. Put together with your theory about the immune system, I think a great many other diseases and disabilities will become understood in terms, partly at least, of ear function. But for now I am sticking to what I have seen and know from my research.

High-Frequency Sound and Musicality
The effects of the physics of music on the neurology of ear-related behaviours has little to do with how people react to the musicality of music. In fact, the Tomatis Method removes all of the musical quality from the music and exposes the listener to a rather irritating buzzing sound. Similarly, the high-frequency racket of a smoke alarm can activate the stapedius muscle and heal CFS (I do not recommend that treatment, but I have experienced it inadvertently.) This is learning within the belief system of science, not emotional reaction to the beauty of music or the mind-over-matter effect of a belief in the plasticity of the brain or some mystic view of mental changes. It applies to persons of every belief system in very much the way prescription lenses for the eyes apply to persons of every belief system. Actually, my paradigm casts such a rational light on the nature of all belief systems that it forced me to revise some of my religious views. The paradigm has been very extensively tested on the milder forms of ear dysfunction and on autism, which resembles adult schizophrenia.

I have added some points about forms of proof to my blog.

I really would like to hear more about your theory of the immune system in mental illness.
Laurna

Emotional Freedom Techniques –

http://www.eftuniverse.com/

EMDR – Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing -

http://www.emdr.com/index.htm

NeuroEmotional Technique -

http://www.netmindbody.com/index_ie.html

All of these therapies work on left-brain, right-brain integration (by working with meridians).

Like so much of this stuff, cognitive behavioral therapy may be the answer… For others, all the talk in the world doesn’t help them move on…

I think that for some people these meridian-based therapies work much better than talk therapy, and can be the answer to overcoming a trauma, putting it behind, and moving on.

What works for one, may not work for another… so it goes. But whatever works, works!

Call me crazy (been called worse),

Duane Sherry, M.S.
discoverandrecover.wordpress.com

Interesting theory.

At an earlier point I postulated that schizophrenia was an autoimmune disease. I had also suggested that the autoimmune response was a result of whole system resonnance. I wrote a paper and even presented it to a number of people (including a psychiatrist). I had been inspired by my son’s recurrent psychotic breaks. I could not prove my theory!

Again, interesting postulation. The challenge is provide the proof for your theory.

Similarly, psychiatrists have plenty of theories, they use them to support their insistence for psychiatric medication, and have no better (or worse) advantage than your theory, or mine.

My friend Jack Rosberg suggests that the etiology is not nearly as significant as having a positive influence on remediating the symptoms/ condition. I suggest if music is the answer for you and Daniel great! Don’t be surprised however if the common element is how you both relate to music and the relationship that has been nurtured as a consequence that has aided in his recovery.

I suggest that beliefs define context and context is decisive (another theory I appreciate that lacks proof). If you, and he, believe that music inspires wellness and that is the context you are living within stay with it. It is an empowering one. Certainly, much more powerful than living within the context of a debilitating brain disease that can only be managed with neuroleptic drugs.