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Mental illness is “associated” with worse covid19 outcomes, including death. Mortality was also higher in schizophrenia, schizotypal and delusional disorders compared to mood disorders. Bacterial, viral, and parasitic illnesses have been found in patients with schizophrenia and other mood disorders, including depression—but few (if any) studies have attempted treatment of mental illness by treating the underlying infections. The statement covid19 is more severe in patients with mental illness is consistent with the statement mental illness is a medical illness. Patients…..
In “The Autoimmune Brain”, David Younger, MD, discusses inflammatory brain disease caused by inflammation the body generates to fight pathogens. In “Chronic”, Phillips and Parish discuss autoimmune disease and state inflammation has always had its roots in infection. (p. 115). In “The Origin of Disease” we discuss a myriad of chronic diseases arising from infectious pathogens and the inflammatory processes the immune system generates to fight the pathogens. In “Drop the Disorder”, Jo Watson questions the scientific validity of psychiatric…..
We have said many times in our book and in our posts—mental illness is a medical illness! Infectious pathogens are known to cause mental illness and cognitive decline. Acute illness can hasten cognitive decline. Many believe streptococcus causes PANS, PANDA, and autoimmune disorders. Toxoplasmosis is dismissed by medical professionals as self-limiting and of no significance; yet, toxoplasmosis is known to cause mental health and autoimmune disorders. Influenza during pregnancy and toxoplasmosis are known to cause mental illness in the fetus…..
More and more, scientists are starting to accept infectious causes of chronic disease. The article supports that mental illness can be a medical illness! Bartonella may be one cause of mental illness, or work in tandem with other immortal pathogens attacking endothelium–but is not likely the only infectious cause of mental illness. For instance, toxoplasmosis can cause mental illness, and both Batonella and toxoplasmosis are transmitted by cats. Patients with mental illness deserve a greater emphasis on medical illness…..
“Mental illness is a medical illness!” Two articles reported chlamydia pathogens increase the risk of mental illness; and the second article reported the “connection” between schizophrenia, Parkinson’s disease, and Tourette’s syndrome. We also previously posted a New York Times article (2/15/19) showing schizophrenia was transmissible and treatable. Medical causes of mental illness, including those caused by chlamydia pneumonia, trachoma, and psittacosis, should be diagnosed and treated, in the routine care of patients with chronic disease. “High risk of schizophrenia…..
Toxoplasmosis is a caused by a parasite, which lives in the host as long as the host lives. Cats are the only known animal reservoir for toxoplasmosis. Most cats are infected early in life, and are most infectious in the weeks following acute infection. Transmission to humans is by ingestion or inhalation of microscopic particles of infected feces; and toxoplasmosis can cross the placenta to infect a fetus. Toxoplasmosis has been ignored in chronic disease, and believed to be a…..
Based on recent posts, we decided to re-post our comment from 2/15/19, for all of our new friends and followers: 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…..
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