Unfortunately psychiatry is medical science of the “west” – a community that has disbelief in religion (Christianity) and refuses to see the spiritual quest for truth the same as the scientific quest for truth. It is only able to theorise or accept what is “obvious” to the “senses”. What they see is what they believe. As a result it is not inclusive of other theories that can help solve disease- for example a higher mind’s observation through the practice of mindfulness. Psychiatry is also not interested in cures and mostly focuses on prescription drugs as a way to manage mental illnesses. So we have to accept that is the best service we can get- mind suppressing drugs to manage our illness.

A study of the brain, not mind-
It is also a study of the brain, not the mind. It calls schizophrenia a brain disorder which is a very minuscule view as well as perhaps a mostly incorrect view of the phenomenon. If you ask an average psychiatrist about what a mind is- he or she barely has any idea. They don’t even know the basics of psychology like- they don’t know that thought, feelings, beliefs, images, voices are all vibrations. Not brain. Knowing this we should not be fully trusting psychiatry so much as a promising science. If the drugs benefits you, good, otherwise just leave it- it has at best some theories which are as good as beliefs. Some physics and meta physics is surely needed to solve for problems like schizophrenia where we are dealing with a lot of vibrations. Psychiatry is not connected with these sciences at all. And they are not even feeling the need to do that. That is scary. For example to understand the voices symptom you need to work with a physicist and telecommunications engineer who knows about voice modulation. To understand sexual hallucinations you need to work with gynaecologists. To work with delusions you need to work with ophthalmologists and neurologists etc who know about image formation in the brain. Hence Schizophrenia is a multi modal disorder that spans the whole medical spectrum and needs attention in various areas not just delusions or psychosis. Even if the imaginary areas of the brain are active it does not mean necessarily that it’s our imagination- it is not. We are being fed media. And still medical charts can show the same thing. The important thing is to investigate the truth.

Drugs are harmful

The drugs especially psychotic drugs have too many and very serious side effects. Many cause brain damage and also movement disorders (scientifically proven). The withdrawal effects are also known to be very challenging. Schizophrenia has a huge spectrum of symptoms and they only seem to target psychosis related issues. For example a psychiatrist is clueless that anxiety can be the cause of psychosis. My psychiatrist refused to give me anti anxiety drugs because he refused to believe that anxiety can cause psychosis. They are also not able to explain any of the symptoms through psychiatric theories of chemical imbalance.

East and west
East is not like the west and has scientific religions like Buddhism or Hinduism that are very evidence based. Mindfulness for example believes in rebirth and assumes that our mental tendencies are from our current and previous births, and that if we work on them we can come out if any suffering. Psychology in the west attributes every issue to having issues in childhood – this may be again common in the west but it is not true for eastern countries. Eastern medicine should take cues from its rich culture, ancient methodologies and practices and contribute in their own way to the view towards mental disorders. Ayurveda for example studies everything as four universal elements and balance between them. These can be verified in many Buddhist meditation practices as well. Scientists of the east should work indigenously to solve mental health challenges with innovative holistic approaches not conforming to the west.
Blindly copying the west is just creating “one opinion” on mental disorders which is very skewed and harmful to humanity.

Mindfulness imperative to solve schizophrenia

Mindfulness has roots in Buddhism. It talks about human beings inflicted with three types of afflictions- craving, aversion and delusion. The pure mind lies beyond this in equanimity- no reaction to sensory media or contact by observing sensations objectively on the body. In schizophrenia the opposite is happening- human beings are being bombarded with so much media by demons that they cannot observe their sensations objectively at all. Thus leading to an increase in craving, aversion and delusions and causing birth to a very sensory mind which is in too much misery. Understanding this itself is the first step towards solving schizophrenia. Vibrations of same kind attract each other. This is a universal principle. Hence if we have vibrations of craving, aversion and delusion we will attract negative vibrations of that kind. It means at least we can prevent schizophrenia by knowing this and starting to work on our minds- learning to be objective, mindful of our feelings and protecting ourselves from negative vibrations. Being vigilant and protecting ourselves. Even with some schizophrenia we may be able to observe our thoughts and feelings enough to ward off negative vibrations to some extent. And with more intense schizophrenia at least we can observe what is happening with our thoughts and feelings. The whole principle of mindfulness is based on objective observations of truths within us. Thus it means we can only solve schizophrenia ourselves- someone else cannot do it for us. Of course we need social support and some meds, but mostly it is us that is dealing with it. So mindfulness is the path away from suffering, psychiatry is far behind with its gross minuscule view of brain disorder. At most psychiatry has to join hands with mindfulness experts to understand the disorder well.