Carmody
16th October 2012, 13:26
It appears that medical science likes to mis-name things. Specifically the things that bring creativity and intelligence to the world, through individuals.
Even the psychology of it is wrong, it is something that is pulled out of and oriented on 'the norm' or the average in the herd.
The middle of the herd..is defining reality? I don't think so.
Like the T-shirt I have always wanted to make, that would say:
"Normal is for Average"
Something we've always known. That drugging ourselves out is not the path to a better world. That drugging our kids out..to fit in....is not the way to dealing with their obvious intelligence. It is the world that is screwed up, far more than they. Norming them to a crazy world, is not the way to go.
Let me put it this way, the medical industry, as in 'big pharma' as in I.G.Farben (look up I.G. Farben) ....is using our inability to see into the future, using your inability to step out of 'normal' - to ruin and control humanity's future.
(Hint: I.G. Farben -world's biggest company, specializing in chemicals, as in alchemy (and drugs). So complex that it took 50+ years to unravel it, to take it apart -seriously. It was to be dismantled at the end of the second world war. The dang thing was so huge and complex, that it took over 50 years to complete the task. It's still alive..obviously. It was the company that was lurking in the backdrop of what we called 'Nazi'. Ie, fascists.)
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Mental illness, suicide and creativity: 40-Year prospective total population study.
We previously demonstrated that patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder and their relatives are overrepresented in creative occupations. Here, we use a new dataset with a considerably larger sample of patients (n = 1,173,763) to survey other psychiatric diagnoses and to validate previous findings. The specific aims of this study were to i) investigate if creativity is associated with all psychiatric disorders or restricted to those with psychotic features, and ii) to specifically investigate authors in relationship to psychopathology. We conducted a nested case-control study using longitudinal Swedish total population registries, where the occurrence of creative occupations in patients and their non-diagnosed relatives was compared to that of matched population controls. Diagnoses included were schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, unipolar depression, anxiety disorders, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, autism, ADHD, anorexia nervosa, and completed suicide. Creative professions were defined as scientific and artistic occupations. Data were analyzed using conditional logistic regression. Except for bipolar disorder, individuals with overall creative professions were not more likely to suffer from investigated psychiatric disorders than controls. However, being an author was specifically associated with increased likelihood of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, unipolar depression, anxiety disorders, substance abuse, and suicide. In addition, we found an association between creative professions and first-degree relatives of patients with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, anorexia nervosa, and for siblings of patients with autism. We discuss the findings in relationship to some of the major components of creativity.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23063328?dopt=AbstractPlus
Also, an article source:
People in creative professions are treated more often for mental illness than the general population, there being a particularly salient connection between writing and schizophrenia. This according to researchers at Karolinska Institutet, whose large-scale Swedish registry study is the most comprehensive ever in its field.
Last year, the team showed that artists and scientists were more common amongst families where bipolar disorder and schizophrenia is present, compared to the population at large. They subsequently expanded their study to many more psychiatric diagnoses - such as schizoaffective disorder, depression, anxiety syndrome, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, autism, ADHD, anorexia nervosa and suicide - and to include people in outpatient care rather than exclusively hospital patients.
The present study tracked almost 1.2 million patients and their relatives, identified down to second-cousin level. Since all were matched with healthy controls, the study incorporated much of the Swedish population from the most recent decades. All data was anonymized and cannot be linked to any individuals.
The results confirmed those of their previous study: certain mental illness - bipolar disorder - is more prevalent in the entire group of people with artistic or scientific professions, such as dancers, researchers, photographers and authors. Authors specifically also were more common among most of the other psychiatric diseases (including schizophrenia, depression, anxiety syndrome and substance abuse) and were almost 50 per cent more likely to commit suicide than the general population.
The researchers also observed that creative professions were more common in the relatives of patients with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, anorexia nervosa and, to some extent, autism. According to Simon Kyaga, consultant in psychiatry and doctoral student at the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, the results give cause to reconsider approaches to mental illness.
"If one takes the view that certain phenomena associated with the patients illness are beneficial, it opens the way for a new approach to treatment," he says. "In that case, the doctor and patient must come to an agreement on what is to be treated, and at what cost. In psychiatry and medicine generally there has been a tradition to see the disease in black-and-white terms and to endeavour to treat the patient by removing everything regarded as morbid."
Read more at: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-large-scale-link-creativity-mental-illness.html#jCp
And this:
Riding Is My Ritalin
Adam Leibovitz is conducting a groundbreaking experiment that could transform the way doctors treat ADHD: He's pedaling his bicycle.
One evening in the late autumn of 1997, Jeff and Lori Leibovitz arrived at Skiles Test Elementary School in Indianapolis for a meeting with their son Adam's first-grade teacher. The Leibovitzes were upbeat. First-grade conferences are typically full of wonderful reports about children's wonderful progress in learning to read and write. But the Leibovitzes walked into Adam's classroom that night to find the assistant principal sitting with Adam's teacher. The assistant principal did most of the talking. She told them their son showed classic signs of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD: He had trouble sitting still in class; his focus pinballed around the room; his hands were a whirl of perpetual motion. Adam's teacher had taken to giving him rubber bands to occupy his busy fingers.
Jeff and Lori listened in shock. Adam was a rambunctious kid, but his behavior didn't strike them as unusual. Adam's ADHD wasn't extreme or debilitating, the assistant principal told the Leibovitzes. But that wasn't necessarily a good thing. The boy's condition was acute enough to cause learning problems but mild enough that he'd likely slip through the system's safety net for special-needs students.
"It was a horror story," Lori recalls. "Here was our oldest child, just starting school, and we're told that he's always going to struggle with this. They said he'd fall through the cracks and would never amount to anything. It was earthshaking."
At the time, ADHD diagnoses were exploding across the United States. From 1990 to 1998 the number of children and adults identified as having the disorder shot up from 900,000 to nearly five million. Jeff and Lori came home that night and plunged into the research. Lori read everything she could find and attended local support-group meetings. Most of the advice pointed in one direction: a prescription for amphetamines such as Ritalin. The powerful stimulants (the Food and Drug Administration labels them as Schedule II drugs, the same category as morphine and methamphetamine) have a paradoxical calming effect on the minds of ADHD patients. They're convenient, effective and popular—90 percent of ADHD patients who take them see improvement. Pop a pill; problem solved. Many parents swore by them. Teachers praised them for bringing calm to unruly classrooms.
(long article)
The rest of it at the link (Big problem. the kid took Ritalin.......and zeroed out. he lost his edge.)
http://www.bicycling.com/news/featured-stories/riding-my-ritalin?page=0,0
the answer is simple -Stop drugging out and killing the leading edge of humanity's future.
Like I've said before, the middle of the herd is the unchanging part. The outer edge, the area of difference... controls all egress to change, all opportunity, and all chance of change. The outer edge controls the depth of view and all conditions that the norm (middle) can develop or have or be/live/exist --within/as.
Everything happens at the edge, everything happens in and because of that difference. Nothing at all ---can happen without it.
Thus, 'Normal..is for 'average'..which, when it comes to making a difference -- is absolutely nothing. Nothing at all. To be normal, is to be nothing. Stagnant swamp swill.
Even the psychology of it is wrong, it is something that is pulled out of and oriented on 'the norm' or the average in the herd.
The middle of the herd..is defining reality? I don't think so.
Like the T-shirt I have always wanted to make, that would say:
"Normal is for Average"
Something we've always known. That drugging ourselves out is not the path to a better world. That drugging our kids out..to fit in....is not the way to dealing with their obvious intelligence. It is the world that is screwed up, far more than they. Norming them to a crazy world, is not the way to go.
Let me put it this way, the medical industry, as in 'big pharma' as in I.G.Farben (look up I.G. Farben) ....is using our inability to see into the future, using your inability to step out of 'normal' - to ruin and control humanity's future.
(Hint: I.G. Farben -world's biggest company, specializing in chemicals, as in alchemy (and drugs). So complex that it took 50+ years to unravel it, to take it apart -seriously. It was to be dismantled at the end of the second world war. The dang thing was so huge and complex, that it took over 50 years to complete the task. It's still alive..obviously. It was the company that was lurking in the backdrop of what we called 'Nazi'. Ie, fascists.)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Mental illness, suicide and creativity: 40-Year prospective total population study.
We previously demonstrated that patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder and their relatives are overrepresented in creative occupations. Here, we use a new dataset with a considerably larger sample of patients (n = 1,173,763) to survey other psychiatric diagnoses and to validate previous findings. The specific aims of this study were to i) investigate if creativity is associated with all psychiatric disorders or restricted to those with psychotic features, and ii) to specifically investigate authors in relationship to psychopathology. We conducted a nested case-control study using longitudinal Swedish total population registries, where the occurrence of creative occupations in patients and their non-diagnosed relatives was compared to that of matched population controls. Diagnoses included were schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, unipolar depression, anxiety disorders, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, autism, ADHD, anorexia nervosa, and completed suicide. Creative professions were defined as scientific and artistic occupations. Data were analyzed using conditional logistic regression. Except for bipolar disorder, individuals with overall creative professions were not more likely to suffer from investigated psychiatric disorders than controls. However, being an author was specifically associated with increased likelihood of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, unipolar depression, anxiety disorders, substance abuse, and suicide. In addition, we found an association between creative professions and first-degree relatives of patients with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, anorexia nervosa, and for siblings of patients with autism. We discuss the findings in relationship to some of the major components of creativity.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23063328?dopt=AbstractPlus
Also, an article source:
People in creative professions are treated more often for mental illness than the general population, there being a particularly salient connection between writing and schizophrenia. This according to researchers at Karolinska Institutet, whose large-scale Swedish registry study is the most comprehensive ever in its field.
Last year, the team showed that artists and scientists were more common amongst families where bipolar disorder and schizophrenia is present, compared to the population at large. They subsequently expanded their study to many more psychiatric diagnoses - such as schizoaffective disorder, depression, anxiety syndrome, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, autism, ADHD, anorexia nervosa and suicide - and to include people in outpatient care rather than exclusively hospital patients.
The present study tracked almost 1.2 million patients and their relatives, identified down to second-cousin level. Since all were matched with healthy controls, the study incorporated much of the Swedish population from the most recent decades. All data was anonymized and cannot be linked to any individuals.
The results confirmed those of their previous study: certain mental illness - bipolar disorder - is more prevalent in the entire group of people with artistic or scientific professions, such as dancers, researchers, photographers and authors. Authors specifically also were more common among most of the other psychiatric diseases (including schizophrenia, depression, anxiety syndrome and substance abuse) and were almost 50 per cent more likely to commit suicide than the general population.
The researchers also observed that creative professions were more common in the relatives of patients with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, anorexia nervosa and, to some extent, autism. According to Simon Kyaga, consultant in psychiatry and doctoral student at the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, the results give cause to reconsider approaches to mental illness.
"If one takes the view that certain phenomena associated with the patients illness are beneficial, it opens the way for a new approach to treatment," he says. "In that case, the doctor and patient must come to an agreement on what is to be treated, and at what cost. In psychiatry and medicine generally there has been a tradition to see the disease in black-and-white terms and to endeavour to treat the patient by removing everything regarded as morbid."
Read more at: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-large-scale-link-creativity-mental-illness.html#jCp
And this:
Riding Is My Ritalin
Adam Leibovitz is conducting a groundbreaking experiment that could transform the way doctors treat ADHD: He's pedaling his bicycle.
One evening in the late autumn of 1997, Jeff and Lori Leibovitz arrived at Skiles Test Elementary School in Indianapolis for a meeting with their son Adam's first-grade teacher. The Leibovitzes were upbeat. First-grade conferences are typically full of wonderful reports about children's wonderful progress in learning to read and write. But the Leibovitzes walked into Adam's classroom that night to find the assistant principal sitting with Adam's teacher. The assistant principal did most of the talking. She told them their son showed classic signs of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD: He had trouble sitting still in class; his focus pinballed around the room; his hands were a whirl of perpetual motion. Adam's teacher had taken to giving him rubber bands to occupy his busy fingers.
Jeff and Lori listened in shock. Adam was a rambunctious kid, but his behavior didn't strike them as unusual. Adam's ADHD wasn't extreme or debilitating, the assistant principal told the Leibovitzes. But that wasn't necessarily a good thing. The boy's condition was acute enough to cause learning problems but mild enough that he'd likely slip through the system's safety net for special-needs students.
"It was a horror story," Lori recalls. "Here was our oldest child, just starting school, and we're told that he's always going to struggle with this. They said he'd fall through the cracks and would never amount to anything. It was earthshaking."
At the time, ADHD diagnoses were exploding across the United States. From 1990 to 1998 the number of children and adults identified as having the disorder shot up from 900,000 to nearly five million. Jeff and Lori came home that night and plunged into the research. Lori read everything she could find and attended local support-group meetings. Most of the advice pointed in one direction: a prescription for amphetamines such as Ritalin. The powerful stimulants (the Food and Drug Administration labels them as Schedule II drugs, the same category as morphine and methamphetamine) have a paradoxical calming effect on the minds of ADHD patients. They're convenient, effective and popular—90 percent of ADHD patients who take them see improvement. Pop a pill; problem solved. Many parents swore by them. Teachers praised them for bringing calm to unruly classrooms.
(long article)
The rest of it at the link (Big problem. the kid took Ritalin.......and zeroed out. he lost his edge.)
http://www.bicycling.com/news/featured-stories/riding-my-ritalin?page=0,0
the answer is simple -Stop drugging out and killing the leading edge of humanity's future.
Like I've said before, the middle of the herd is the unchanging part. The outer edge, the area of difference... controls all egress to change, all opportunity, and all chance of change. The outer edge controls the depth of view and all conditions that the norm (middle) can develop or have or be/live/exist --within/as.
Everything happens at the edge, everything happens in and because of that difference. Nothing at all ---can happen without it.
Thus, 'Normal..is for 'average'..which, when it comes to making a difference -- is absolutely nothing. Nothing at all. To be normal, is to be nothing. Stagnant swamp swill.