Mental illness is a medical illness! A patient with intractable schizophrenia developed a blood cancer, and received a bone marrow transplant from a brother, who did not have schizophrenia—the patient recovered from schizophrenia, and years later had no symptoms of schizophrenia and did not require any psychiatric medications. A second patient with leukemia, who had no mental illness, received a bone marrow transplant from a schizophrenic brother, and the patient developed schizophrenia. In a third scenario, a doctor treated two institutionalized schizophrenic patients, who were practically catatonic, with minocycline (an antibiotic), and the patients completely normalized. When the minocycline was stopped, the mental illness returned. The patients were discharged with a prescription for low dose minocycline. The only reasonable explanation for these scenarios is intracellular infection caused the mental illness, the inflammation, and the blood cancers.
The author of the New York Times article concluded, “Watershed moments occasionally come along in medical history when previously intractable or even deadly conditions suddenly become treatable or preventable. They are sometimes accompanied by a shift in how scientists understand the disorders in question.” We hope our book becomes one of those watershed moments.
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