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I know someone who has diagnosised but untreated schizophrenia. She was admitted to the hospital after she started having thyroid problems and they also administered schizophrenia medication while she was in. The change in her behaviour was positive and dramatic and allowed her to start accepting help after being scared that men in white coats would take her away if she ever let on about her illness to anyone. Now she has been out of hospital for a while, unmedicated again and back to her old behaviour including talking to people who aren’t there and having bad episodes. Maybe some medications are off the mark but whatever they used for her absolutely worked.

I realise a sample size of one anecdotal piece of evidence is hardly scientific, but I’m getting rather tired of the constant mouse model studies, with barely related parameters.

I wish there was a better way to do medical research, in actual human beings. Unfortunately it seems historically that actual human medical research is mired in the suffering of the (generally unwilling) participants.