Understanding Schizophrenia with Dr. Xavier Amador

[@ColleenC-n5v]

Dr. Amatory, you are amazing. Thankyou for this great interview.💜☮✝☮💜☮✝💜

[@taterbug5541]

Great information! Just starting out learning about this issue. Needed to hear all this!!!

[@JungleJargon]

Schizophrenia is curable in some cases by way of the person taking the initiative to change what the person believes which isn’t easy but it’s possible. The hallucinations and delusions lose their power over the person when the person doesn’t believe in them.

[@maryfowles807]

Great interview! Asked all my questions.

[@emelersan729]

Great interview, great questions, thank you!

[@jamesgrosrenaudjr812]

You just moved the building where the beds were

[@RoseanneAntoine]

Roseanne from Trinidad my son Shawn have schizophrenia help

[@judyedmunds9469]

I have 41 yr old daughter she lives with me doesn't think she need help continues smoking the merry Jane pen things are getting worse she attact neibor

[@Lipolimtown]

You watch this video and you realize we still don’t really have any real understanding of these complex set of pathologies. Just two guys talking back and forth about this and that. how traumas react and change in the environment can create schizophrenia symptoms and we have no idea what goes wrong in the brains of these people. It’s an ever changing, ever morphing life destroying and utterly complex inside-out disorder. Antipsychotics are not effective no matter what these professionals pat themselves on the back and say. There are no medications for the mesolimbic dysfunction the amygdala addiction thinking and negative symptoms, no tx’s for cognitive or disabiling disorganized symptoms. The only hope is looking at mitochondrial dysfunction and improving totality of healthy Mitochondria in the brain and body. These people’s lives are ruined and psychiatry is doing NOTHING to restore true function or prosperity in these people. Do better!

[@davidsprouse151]

I totally agree with this. Lawyers need to hold these folks accountable for outcomes

[@Lipolimtown]

@@davidsprouse151 idk I don’t even care about that. Yes there is an issue of psychiatric damage from SSRI’s to people. What I’m concerned about is this profession of people thinking they are doing anything legitimate with the piss poor antipsychotics they have available and the piss poor antidepressants available and the piss poor outlook. It is not good enough! I understand that these conditions are extraordinarily complicated, and it would be easier to just not develop treatments and not pay attention to it and have it go away. The new glycine inhibitor, TAAR1 and muscarinic drugs coming out to are NOT GOOD ENOUGH and they are all failing in clinical trials. These people need powerful mitochondrial increasing life altering and treatments. Stop letting people rot away in beds and die. I’m passionate about it because I have seen no change in 300 years of this condition being studied and I’m fed up with psychiatry and their contentedness to let their countless patients rot away and die

[@bethdouty4591]

Researchers and doctors are not responsible for this disease. Everyone here is trying to do their best. Some diseases are never cured and most likely never will be.

[@Lipolimtown]

@@bethdouty4591 well Beth, that’s one way to look at it. The other is that sometimes some young kids in college make serious mistakes with their brain. They’re lives are sometimes ruined from these decisions many years ago. Much like how Covid has impacted the world with various mental health issues so has psychosis. If a person goes to a foot doctor they expect to be treated for the foot condition. If someone gets a serious life ruining mental illness are they not as well able to expect a level of remission? It is absolutely the role of science to develop better treatments and understand this

[@bethdouty4591]

@@Lipolimtownthere are many well functioning adults with schizophrenia. Yesterday I watched a video about a schizophrenic man who got a phD in engineering after his diagnosis. It's more than a chemical imbalance. The structure of their brain is physically different which would be very hard to change.

[@blessdaily155]

How did Dr. Amador get his brother to accept treatment?

[@KimWH.2]

He has a book, my sister just ordered it, I think he discusses it there.

[@hope4all366]

I'm not sick, I Don't Need help. This is his book. As a parent of an adult child with Schizophrenia, this book helped me understand immensely.

[@parttimeuber865]

My wife developed Schizophrenia (delusions and auditory hallucinations) at the ripe age of 60. How is that a developmental disorder?

[@doretprice9034]

Changes of hormones. Alot of women can get Schitzophrenia during or after menopause. and it's pre-dispositional

[@abdullahsayyaf6028]

thats interesting my mother started getting psychosis during menopause ​@@doretprice9034

[@KThomson-lx8qy]

Read Brain energy by Chris Palmer

[@parttimeuber865]

@@KThomson-lx8qy Thanks for the suggestion. I already have that book... I'll crack it tonight.