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Attention... Seek advice from a mental health professional before attempting anything presented on this website... Attention...

Hearing voices or perceiving individuals other than myself communicate to me in my mind, isn't what I believed the prime of my life would be absorbed by... nevertheless it became the reality of my life, until effective medication became available.

In my examination of the components, that make up my mental illness, looking for it's achilles heel, I noticed something very significant... That it seems to anchor itself to delusion, as it's foundation, so to speak. So if delusion in a patient, is a major part of the framework of their illness, when this is dealt with and put away, the patient is more than half way to COMPLETE recovery.

What is delusion?... Delusion is an illness of the part of the mind I call... "The Believer Within".

What the mind believes, eventually is accepted by the subconscious, as concrete, absolute and accurate knowledge... Self accepted gospel truth... so to speak.

Basically... beliefs held as true... that are in fact false... are the building blocks of delusion.

This building (delusion) is demolished, simply by educating the patient, to evaluate what they believe, with a critical eye... eg... If their thoughts tell them... "You're Jesus!" (a common belief within psychotics) They should respond to such suggestions for them to believe with "I have insufficient information, to validate that thought, in order to elevate it into accepted belief, regarding my identity. The mind may then say... "Isn't it still possible that you are in fact Jesus?"... The response should be a reasonable one... "I don't know if I'm Jesus... I don't have enough absolute proof to accept whether I am or not... so I choose not to believe... pending further information." The mind may then respond with... "You want a cup of coffee!" the patient can then put their index finger diagonally over their mouth, look off pensively and think..."Let'see now... do I want a cup of coffee?... hmmmm." (ha ha).

Listed below, among other things, are some alternative treatments for Schizophrenia that combined with correct medication, dietary intake and exercise, will have a major impact on helping those who suffer from mental illnesses.

The Number#1 dietary change recommended...

Drink a litre of cold water, from your refridgerator, each morning, after you wake up.

The reason why this is No.1...

Your brain's function, is at it's optimum, when it is sufficiently hydrated and cooled by low temperature water. Another consideration is, as you will see further down the page, when a person smokes tobacco, the nicotine, is a sticky substance, that saturates the brain, which inturn, causes blood cells to stop and stick to the brain matter. These cells, then cause blockages to the signals between the synapses. What you end up with, is something similar to a coughing car engine, due to gum build up on the fuel injectors.

Knowing that blood cells, are now sticking to the brain material, the next thing to do is...

Using the heal of your hand, bang your head gently, all over, to loosen the stationary cells, referred to, so they again return to the blood-stream, thereby effectively cleaning the brain somewhat...

My own experience is... My mind becomes Quiet and Clear, following this technique.

During the ten years I've been diagnosed with a schizo-effective disorder .ie... Schizophrenia and clinical depression engaging paranoid delusions and voices, I have been prescribed a number of medications whose effectiveness has varied, which I have to concede, as many others, who are honest with themselves would, using medication alone as a remedy, should be seen as just mental laziness or relying on a crutch.

One of the most amazing occurrences to me was the time I stopped all medication and replaced it with a course of multi-vitamins and pre-meditated thought of teaching my mind that it was infact healthy, consciously concentrating on pre-meditated quality thoughts repetitiously. The great problem with the mind is that it absorbs a great deal of information in words and images, and left to it's own devices, it will erratically mull over this information in background thought, trying to validate or make sense of it.

With a number of people suffering allergic reactions to basically benign substances, such as milk and peanuts, the possibility of allergic reaction to volatile substances, is more than likely. Tobacco smoke contains some 4,000 volatile chemical substances, with nicotine having a major impact on the brain, setting up neuro-transmitter sites to accommodate it. The real probability is, some people diagnosed with schizo-effective disorders, are merely having allergic reactions to tobacco smoke, given the co-relation of consumption levels in sufferers. It is also apparent that addiction in itself can be seen as a form of chemically induced loss of mental faculty. Tobacco smoke consumption also falls into the category of poor quality consumption or bodily intake as previously mentioned as a problem for quality health, which includes mental health.

My own recent trials upon myself have shown promise, especially if I put my head under cold running water, particularly the cerebral region, until a natural electric jolt goes through my body... In one day I sense a stability I haven't had since the onset of the illness... a very positive development.

Hypnotherapy... to reason with the part of the patient's consciousness that desires to listen to the subconscious, rather than engage the real world, into waking up, and therefore making adequate separation between sleep and waking states.

Another consideration is that at some time a sufferer of Schizophrenia may have gone an extended period without adequate sleep, and the reason for staying in semi-dream state, or semi-sleep, is the brain is attempting to catch up on the sleep it has been deprived at some stage...so adequate REM sleep to an excessive degree for a season, may also be of some benefit.

The Main point is... The school of thought that theorizes dreaming is the mind mulling over the day's events to make sense of them during sleep... if valid... such mental activity should be excluded from occurring during the waking state, and thereby avoid the 'madness' that dreams appear to be, being exhibited as psychosis in schizophrenics.

My personal experience suggests that many of my dream's subject matter continues to be fodder for waking thought, immediately after sleep ceases, even to the point of continuation of dreams that indicate a blurred line between sleep and waking states, that there has to be something concerning the patient's illness or psychotic thought patterns.

One possible feature of treatment might include patients keeping a record of their dreams immediately upon waking, to see if any manifested psychosis during the day relates to their dreams, having some sort of connection with it.

It's entirely possible that mental illness could be a sleep disorder, like sleep-walking, only with a twist... Dream-Walking.

RESULT : The Conscious Mind is Concerned with a Conscious-Mind-Authored-Thought, rather than the automated, random, garbled, psychotic-in-nature thought patterns from the subconscious, which I have on good authority provides even the sanest people with dreams, where cats inexplicably turn into bicycles and the like.

Another spin to this technique is to verbally recite the kind of mental state you desire, while walking as recommended below, with the words scrolling through the imagination, or, you can pin a sheet of paper in front of you, with the words now visible, scan each word visually and simultaneously being spoken.

My personal affirmation is...

"Stable... Robust... Clarity..." ... "Stable... Robust... Clarity... etc." in time with each stride, when walking on a treadmill.

This process confines the mind to a regiment, similar to breaking in a horse using a circular corral, tethered to a long reign. This makes the mind aware that it can be contained and controlled, and it should have a robotic structure to operate, not wayward and wild. This period isn't meant to permanently mechanize the mind, it is simply a way of curtailing it's dominance, by virtue of regimentation, even militant training.

An alternative, based on a similar theme, is what I call "Snapshot" or "Freeze-Frame"...

When you find yourself in front of the television set and having run through the channels, only to discover there's nothing on worth watching, switch the TV off, relax, and become "One" with the stillness of the room.

Put another way...

Make "the moment" like a 3D photograph... Allowing your mind to become still. Starting this technique, while seated comfortably, count 1,2,3... and then freeze-frame, make your body and mind still, in line with your surroundings.

What I have discovered, is the mind enjoys these deliberate moments of vacancy, and will begin prompting you use this technique on a regular basis.

To give you an idea... as an example... Place your hand on the screen and say "Computer Monitor" aloud... Then... Place your hand on the mouse and say "Computer Mouse" aloud.

Continuing in this manner of contacting things physically, and audibly reciting what those things are, triggers off in the mind, an association with tangible, concrete, reality... breaking attention away from the speculative ideas, or delusions that pervade mental illness thought structures.

Having used this technique on numerous objects, over enough time to gain the attention of the mind, and then resting from it, the underlying connection with reality is very much enhanced, with the mind's consciousness now focused on perceivable reality, searching for more things to name and evaluating things it already has, in order to be more comprehensive, rather than be entranced by the questionable, delusive, and psychotic thoughts, that are the activity within the recesses of the mind, or put another way, the mind now has a pre-occupation amounting to an automatic process of looking at things and then naming them, rather than mull over the current delusion, paranoia or psychosis.

A simple game of 'Eye Spy' with patients makes them consciously aware of the reality surrounding them, breaking the obsession with thinking thoughts of questionable worth through, leading to delusion, paranoia and psychosis.

1. Take deep breaths slowly for 20 seconds.
2. Take a final deep breath, filling lungs to full and then hold breath... at the same time...
3. Clench fists and eyes shut while tensing entire torso, legs, arms and other muscles.

After having done this several times, add to the regime...

4. Consciously tensing the mind to a halt along with the physical clench.
5. Increase the amount of time or duration of the above, until initial success at achieving control... ie... not thinking through sheer force at will. Once the technique has been understood by the person doing it, all it takes is to close the eyes and hold the breath, to make the mind stationary.

This sends a signal to the subconscious, that the patient is in charge, NOT the voices-generating mind, and now empowers the person, not the voices.

If a dog barks, you restrict it to a chain... If it keeps barking, you shorten the chain... and keep shortening the chain until it stops barking. This informs the dog, that it's owner is the boss, not the dog. After this scenario has been played out a number of times, the dog on hearing itself bark once, knows where this leads for the dog and to a degree it now police's itself to avoid the chain, thereby reducing the dog barking to one or two barks a day... hardly a disturbance to the owner.

Read the previous with the following changes...

Dog read Mind
Barking read Unruly influence
Owner read Patient
Chain read Control as stipulated above.

Grammatically it's a mess, but on the hop editing with poetic licence... It's easy to see how it works.

Another consideration is the more you practice this exercise, the more residual quietness of mind will follow. Just as a soft muscle becomes firm by virtue of using weights, the mind becomes quiet by virtue of force, and exactly as a muscle becomes perpetually firm, the more often it uses weights... the more the mind is perpetually quiet, the more it is forcibly quietened.

Basically if you take the mind by the throat and choke it enough, it will become submissive... Happy Mind Domination and Goodbye Voices.

This technique is used by high speed aircraft fighter pilots, to remain conscious, when without this technique, the 'G' forces, starve the brain of blood, and therefore oxygen, leading to blackouts. The idea is... when you tense all of your body's muscles, this is similar to squeezing a wet sponge, but instead of water being released, the squeezing of muscles, squish out blood, This blood then goes to the point of least resistance... The brain.

With the brain now saturated with blood, and therefore oxygen, the pilot remains conscious... A brain saturated with oxygen enriched blood, is not only less likely to blackout, but also less likely to behave in an untoward manner, such as psychosis or depression.

Yet another consideration is... The complex perceptive nature of the subconscious may interpret the sound of breath as speaking voices, and by attempting to listen to what's being said, hear something that isn't there at all. This ties in with what was previously said about smokers and schizophrenia, given a more pronounced wheeze rate in smokers.

By the fourth day using this technique, periods of automatic sporadic mental quiet are occurring, that equates to a normal mind function... This to me proves that this technique shows more than just promise in aiding mental wellness.

On the sixth day, having taken a break from the technique, I found myself out of control, swept up by a major psychotic episode. After about an hour of the episode, a window of opportunity to engage the technique occurred, and so I started doing it... The rate of recovery was nothing short of remarkable. I will however warn those intending to use this technique, to combat an episode, to make sure they're sitting down, as the impulse to pass out, although very short lived, can be very strong... once passed this stage the connection to reality is quite striking, and the episode is a memory. One suggestion is that as the thoughts that were prevalent in the episode, come to recall, continue using the technique to cancel them, so as not to relapse back into it. At this stage I can only conclude that this technique is really the breakthrough I theorized it to be.

Conclusion...

An apparent side-effect of this treatment seems to be a rapid shaking of the head following the technique, equating to a mild fit from the neck up... this appears to also clear the head and can be explained as a dispersion of electrical charge that possibly builds up due to the technique.

Having employed the above techniques for about a month, longer and more stable periods of personal solitude and empowerment, with quiet composure equating to normality are occurring... WHATEVER SCHIZOPHRENIA IS, IT CAN BE CONTROLLED...Time will tell if it can be CONQUERED.

Recommended...

1. Multi-Vitamins and Omega 3 plus Garlic supplements.

2. Stockman's breakfast...ie... Lamb chops...Eggs...Toast...Cereal...Juice.
ie...fibre...carbohydrates...protein...vitamins...minerals.

3. Showering the back of the head and neck under COLD water until the person shudders...hourly.

4. Morning and afternoon 10 minute sessions of brisk walking on a treadmill, plus calisthenics... preceded by full stretching exercises, to reduce mental distress caused by tension.

5. Training the Patient to consciously THINK, rather than just take whatever the mind dishes up.

6. Medication to reduce the side-effects of tobacco...Cogentin.

7. Normal regime of medication... adjusted as the patient improves.

8. Touching objects and speaking what they are, covering the surrounding area, to make the mind more reality focussed.

The reason medication works to some extent, is because the wild thought patterns sourced in the subconscious are chemically jammed.