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Arkan_Wolfshade
29th June 2006, 07:51 AM
My BS klaxons are going off, but it may be due to dealing with the 911 cters too much.

http://psychrights.org/Articles/29medicalcausesofsz.htm
drkitten
29th June 2006, 07:55 AM
My BS klaxons are going off, but it may be due to dealing with the 911 cters too much.

http://psychrights.org/Articles/29medicalcausesofsz.htm

I'm not sure what is triggering your alarms. "Schizophrenia" is a behavioral diagnosis, not a causal one, so it's not surprising that a lot of things can trigger schizophrenic symptoms.

Think of it this way. How many different ways can you break an arm? So if I posted a web page listing 1001 medical causes of a broken arm : "519: Automobile accident. 520: Falling in the bathtub. 521: Gunshot wound," would that make me a quack?
StewartP
29th June 2006, 07:59 AM
I followed the link on Gluten intolerance as I figured it to be the most woozy. A google of the strings "celiac disease" "schizophrenia" popped up a pile of stuff. A recent Israeli study found no link. A study submitted to the BMJ showed "moderate increase in risk" but qualified this by addidng that the samples are small because the conditions are rare.
Arkan_Wolfshade
29th June 2006, 08:04 AM
I followed the link on Gluten intolerance as I figured it to be the most woozy. A google of the strings "celiac disease" "schizophrenia" popped up a pile of stuff. A recent Israeli study found no link. A study submitted to the BMJ showed "moderate increase in risk" but qualified this by addidng that the samples are small because the conditions are rare.

Yeah, it was the food allergies section that tripped my tripwires.
Mercutio
29th June 2006, 10:03 AM
I'm not sure what is triggering your alarms. "Schizophrenia" is a behavioral diagnosis, not a causal one, so it's not surprising that a lot of things can trigger schizophrenic symptoms.

It is also a fairly broad category, encompassing a wide range of symptoms and constellations of symptoms. It would be extraordinary (on the order of paranormal), IMO, if anyone ever claimed to find "the one cause" of schizophrenia.
articulett
29th June 2006, 10:48 AM
It is also a fairly broad category, encompassing a wide range of symptoms and constellations of symptoms. It would be extraordinary (on the order of paranormal), IMO, if anyone ever claimed to find "the one cause" of schizophrenia.

sometimes I feel a little schizophrenic trying to decipher II--does that count?
Arkan_Wolfshade
29th June 2006, 12:09 PM
sometimes I feel a little schizophrenic trying to decipher II--does that count?

No, but it does prove you're conscious. *ba-dum dish*