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Mental illness and neuroplasticity
    #19175176 - 11/22/13 02:59 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

My psychologist claims although the prognosis in psychiatry is usually grim for recovery from schizophrenia, that in real life many people do recover and move on from their illness, and she states even stroke victims have the ability to recover through neuroplasticity, or the rewiring of the brain.

Do you agree with her? Is something like schizophrenia able to be stubbornly worked against and beaten? I'm talking mainly of the negative symptoms such as amotivation.


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Re: Mental illness and neuroplasticity [Re: circastes]
    #19175390 - 11/22/13 03:57 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

sure, seen it


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Re: Mental illness and neuroplasticity [Re: circastes]
    #19176996 - 11/22/13 11:43 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

I knew a guy who was in the mental institutions because he was deemed unable to function in society due to his schizophrenia. When he got out I hung out with him here and there and ran into him around town. He seemed fine to me :shrug:


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Re: Mental illness and neuroplasticity [Re: circastes]
    #19180657 - 11/23/13 09:53 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Recovery can be thought about in two different ways..

1. an either/or, digital, black or white, "I'm either recovered or I'm not recovered" kind of way... like a light switch that is either on or off.  OR

2. a sliding scale, analog, shades of grey, "I'm better or worse relative to some point" from moment to moment... like a dimmer knob on the light.

I believe number 2 is a better way to think about recovery. There is a hell of a lot of research on neuroplasticity that has found that when something is repeated over and over, whether that's a motor action, memory, and other task (such as living a life and managing problems well), then the brain will change and grow over time to make doing that thing easier.. some might just call it learning. So yes, I would agree with your psych. But that doesn't mean that there won't be set backs from time to time, so we can expect that. How someone deals with their setbacks will make a difference. Two steps forward, one step back, two steps forward..


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Re: Mental illness and neuroplasticity [Re: circastes]
    #19180687 - 11/23/13 10:08 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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My psychologist claims although the prognosis in psychiatry is usually grim for recovery from schizophrenia, that in real life many people do recover and move on from their illness, and she states even stroke victims have the ability to recover through neuroplasticity, or the rewiring of the brain.

Do you agree with her? Is something like schizophrenia able to be stubbornly worked against and beaten? I'm talking mainly of the negative symptoms such as amotivation.




one of the biggest things that helped me out is that i found a hobby n excelled in it so much that my confidence raised tremendously, n my selfesteem, anxiety is alot more manageable n less prevalent, im def in a better place then i was, n the best part is, i had NO one by my side to do this.


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