Just read in an article from E News that the mom said back in April that Amanda had no mental illness. But I've also rea
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gcarras — 10 years ago(October 12, 2015 10:37 PM)
Very good news..see
http://www.tmz.com/2015/10/12/amanda-bynes-fidm-fashion-school/
Amanda Bynes is hot and Lindsay Lohan is not.
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corinnacarpenter — 11 years ago(November 24, 2014 01:36 AM)
- You do not 'come down' with Schizophrenia. It's something you are born with. 2) It can manifest in childhood. There are children who hear voices and experience paranoia.
- It can be misdiagnosed or undiagnosed. I have bi5b4polar disorder and it wasn't until I was 31 that I was diagnosed.
JEFFREY TAMBOR
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ficoce — 11 years ago(April 05, 2015 09:54 PM)
Lol, you're funny. I don't think you've ever witnessed schizophrenia. I mean like, have you personally had any friends that have been so-called diagnosed? If not, go down to your local state hospital and tell the staff all the people there are just unhappy. They might just show you people that were so unhappy they scratched their own eyes out or tore into their intestines with bare hands. That's pretty unhappy right there. It's best to catch this early - usually shows up in early 20's and develops quickly, sometimes weeks and months, from happy normal to "unhappy". Initially acting depressed to family and friends, they may start to self medicate and then withdraw. You don't have to believe in schizophrenia, you do have to acknowledge that people can be "unhappy" to the point they are a danger to themselves and others. We might want to call that very, very unhappy, or ultra unhappy.
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john_stevensfiredragon — 11 years ago(April 06, 2015 04:13 AM)
I DID have a friend who was diagnosed as schizophrenic.
The bizarre behavioral things you're mentioning could have been the result of taking psychiatric drugs forced onto these people called "schizophrenic".
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ficoce — 10 years ago(April 20, 2015 07:51 PM)
Interesting read - for something written by a lawyer. Words are very important in the legal profession, and as far as he states in his paper that schizophrenia is not a disease - I agree with him. It's like calling blindness or dwarfism a disease.
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werecow2003 — 9 years ago(April 19, 2016 01:10 PM)
"As of 2013 there is no objective test for schizophrenia and the scientific validity of schizophrenia, and its defining symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations, have been questioned. No biological markers or physiological tests that can be used to diagnose schizophrenia have been found, and there is no clear evidence that the concept of schizophrenia is a valid construct."
I feel that something needs to be clarified here:
I think people often misunderstand what this kind of thing means; it most emphatically does
not
mean that people diagnosed with the mental illness under examination are actually totally fine.
Because of the difficulty in pinning down the biological causes of mental illness (or any illness, really), labels for psychiatric diagnoses tend to describe a set of similar outward symptoms of mental illness (a syndrome), rather than their underlying causes. What that implies is that there may or may not be any single discrete entity called "schizophrenia"; ins5b4tead the term may cover a (potentially large) number of different underlying biological causes that all happen to produce similar symptoms.
So "schizophrenia" is a term that refers to a set of common symptoms shared between those who suffer from it, but they do not necessarily share a common cause. The same is true for, say, autism, or irritable bowel syndrome, or chronic fatigue syndrome. It is important to understand that when healthcare professionals question the validity of a diagnosis like that, this is not meant to imply that the patients are just making something up, or that there isn't something really wrong with them. People who have these syndromes are in real distress, but different people with the same syndrome may actually have different physical or psychological issues. The classification may therefore have to be revised as we find out more about the underlying causes, or as we learn to refine the diagnoses. -
Calimarina — 10 years ago(May 06, 2015 06:40 AM)
I work as a 911 operator and I can tell if someone suffers from Schizophrenia. If they are off medication they go from one thought to the next never raising or lowering their voice while you speak to them. It's as if their hearing is turned off while their lips are moving. Schizophrenia isn't some made up mental illness as you can read about the disorder from people hundreds of years ago. Their thoughts are scrambled.
Did you also know psychologists cannot agree on what a psychopath/sociopath is? What one psychologist states can be different by another. Just because the field cannot agree on mental states doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
http://www.medicaldaily.com/scientists-prove-chemical-imbalance-theory-schizophrenia-using-brain-model-made-stem-cells-302596 -
john_stevensfiredragon — 10 years ago(May 06, 2015 09:03 PM)
Did you even read this?
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AlarmedGibbon — 10 years ago(May 19, 2015 11:41 AM)
If Calimarina wanted to read a bunch of anti-science propaganda produced by non-scientists (such as attorney Wayne Ramsay), she could just head to the local Scientology center.
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gcarras — 10 years ago(April 15, 2015 08:35 PM)
"corinnacarpenter:The media needs to back the hell off and stop treating her like she's some sideshow freak that is being used as a sick and ignorant source of amusement. "
Absolutely agreed as a HUGE AManda fan.
(And I suggest that we clal ourselves Amanda pandas).
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FlippinFloppin — 10 years ago(May 04, 2015 02:32 AM)
LOL, her net worth is roughly $4.000.000 and that's not a lot these days, and I hope she has a really good health care insurance, because it is not cheap to be treated at a mental care facility.
Her parents have been really good to her, and tried to take care of her, but as she is an adult, it is not easy to convince the authority's that she not capable of taking care of herself.- I hope she's going to be well in the near future, and live a life as normal as it can be when you're diagnosed with a probably lifelong mental decease.