Comments on: The mortality of psychosis. https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2015/10/the-mortality-of-psychosis/ Bleak Theology: Hopeful Science Tue, 25 Apr 2017 00:49:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.4 By: Looking Glass https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2015/10/the-mortality-of-psychosis/comment-page-1/#comment-6340 Fri, 30 Oct 2015 15:03:08 +0000 https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/?p=7809#comment-6340 Severe disorder within the mind almost always is matched by severe disorder in the rest of the body. This is normally compounded by the reality that the suffering patient will have built up habits that might, at the time, have limited the symptoms at they were increasing. (This is why drugs can be so lethal to those people.)

In the case of schizophrenia, it’s also important to remember what is happening at the functional level. They can’t “block out” information that the brain normally would. Thus the body is going to be leeched of anything that can be found to preserve the necessary functions within the brain. When the nervous system is pressed for energy, it will start breaking down the rest of the body in the same way muscle is lost when one is protein deficient.

It’s a pretty terrible thing when the body is attacking itself to survive. Brutal.

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