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Do you think that, if everyone meditated from a early age, a lot less people would get schizophrenia? |
Just curious, please answer only if you know something about it. Seems to make sense to me? Probably not. First of all, schizophrenia isn't often diagnosed until an older age. Sometimes patients don't even begin showing symptoms of it until their teens, or later. Medications used for treating schizophrenia and other mental health issues are designed for adults, not for children. There are many studies being conducted today about the dangers AND benefits of medicating children at an early age for things such as ADHD, but the development of the human brain from birth through your 20s is a very delicate process, and we still do not know a lot of the effects of putting children on these strong medications before they are developed enough to handle them. In my opinion, if you were to know, from a person's genetics, that that person would be predisposed to developing schizophrenia, it would probably be good to begin with therapy (individual and group) at an early age, including meditation. With therapy, relaxation techniques, and a good environment, a person would probably be able to work out their mental health problems for a long time on their own. Medications do not prevent schizophrenia, or make it go away - they simply help people cope with the symptoms of it, and allow them to function in their daily lives. Meditation would probably do the same thing - provide a coping mechanism for the symptoms, but not a cure for the disease. What you're asking for is something that would prevent schizophrenia from ever happening in the first place, and I think we're far from ever accomplishing that, unfortunately. Source(s): I have friends with schizophrenia, or other mental health problems, and have read a lot on the subject. I'm not a professional! But I think I do know a bit about it. :) Hope this helps! No, I don't. I think that there are other causes of schizophrenia that meditating would not address. I do think though that people would have less anxiety or anger issues though, so it's not a bad idea! Schizophrenia is a chemical imbalance. Meditation can have an effect on how one responds to the world and various emotions but it probably cannot keep someone from getting it. Reducing the symptoms and/or the effects of something is not the same as curing the disease altogether. However, given your suggestion that people learn to meditate at an early age and the fact that schizophrenia usually manifests in adolescence or young adulthood, it is possible that someone with mild schizophrenia would not know it. Would they be schizophrenic? Yes. But they might not experience the symptoms at all. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=med... There are biological and psychological causes of schizophrenia. Firstly, it is believed to be hereditary, so even with meditation you still have the genes and "preset" programming for schizophrenia in your body. Secondly, brain abnormalities can also cause schizophrenia. So if a person is born with this abnormality, meditating isn't going to resolve it. Lastly, schizophrenia can be caused by problems with neurotransmitters (little messengers in your body). So meditating cannot help control the regulation of these neurotransmitters. Maybe from the psychological aspect people may have a smaller chance of developing schizophrenia if they meditated. But being raised in an abnormal environment, being rejected, abused and neglected can still cause schizophrenia even with meditation. So no, I don't think meditation would have any effect at all on preventing schizophrenia because it is mostly predetermined through genetics and the body's cellular mechanisms... RN student and PSW. |
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