Article: Pychiatric disorders autoimmune

[Tia]

Article in The New Yorker: Mary had schizophrenia then suddenly she didn't.

Anecdotal story about a woman who developed schizophrenia. Twenty years later she was treated with rituximab for lymphoma and her psychiatric symptoms lifted. No longer needed anti-psychotic medication.

There follows a discussion on the link between the immune system and psychiatric illness with a few published cases mentioned. Interesting on the complexity of immune system/psychiatry link.

Mary Had Schizophrenia—Then Suddenly She Didn’t

Some psychiatric patients may actually have treatable autoimmune conditions. But what happens to the newly sane?

www.newyorker.com

 

[Jonathan Edwards]

Very interesting but not at all surprising.

The thing about people spying on you through the television comes up time and time again in people with psychosis. I suspect it has something to do with the brain's dreaming mechanism that can replace real narratives with fantastic ones. That links to sleep and immune disorders like narcolepsy/ cataplexy.

 

[Tilly]

Article in The New Yorker: Mary had schizophrenia then suddenly she didn't.

Anecdotal story about a woman who developed schizophrenia. Twenty years later she was treated with rituximab for lymphoma and her psychiatric symptoms lifted. No longer needed anti-psychotic medication.

There follows a discussion on the link between the immune system and psychiatric illness with a few published cases mentioned. Interesting on the complexity of immune system/psychiatry link.

Mary Had Schizophrenia—Then Suddenly She Didn’t

Some psychiatric patients may actually have treatable autoimmune conditions. But what happens to the newly sane?

www.newyorker.com

Not uncommon and should be looked at more closely. The best documented case is this one, but it is now recognised as causing mental health issues the same with war veterans an brain injury caused. They are now looking at brain injury and autoimmune it was released yesterday
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[rvallee]

As is obvious in most cases, treat the illness takes care of the symptoms and removes any and all of the "mental health" consequences.

It's possible that there are exceptions where it works the other way around, but it's really obvious that the imbalance may be as strong as 99:1. And it's actually far more likely that the traditional "psychological distress causes symptoms" literally never exists. When science is done with this junk, it will leave exactly as much space to it as magic, superstitions and divine intervention have left in modern physics.

The obsession with the idea that treating the psychological consequences of illness will treat the illness, out of a preference that the consequences of the problem must be the real problem, has firmly cemented itself in the top 5 worst ideas in all of human history. Even more so that it's so obvious to anyone who pays attention that it's completely back-asswards.