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There are many theories regarding the causes of schizophrenia: genetic, brain structure, social, stress-related, drug-induced, trauma-response, the dopamine hypothesis. The field of explanations is so varied and contradictory that we now have a campaign against the very use of the term schizophrenia to describe a discrete illness. As someone who has experienced symptoms associated with schizophrenia and who received a diagnosis in 2010 I am still trying to make sense of that experience. Whether we use the term schizophrenia or not I am conscious that I experienced something remarkable and life-changing between 2009 and 2011, something which I have not found properly explained by the medical models available. I have been on anti-psychotic medication since 2011 and have not had any symptoms since then, but I have been left with a profound need to make sense of my experience which has not been satisfied by the psychiatric or psychological explanations I have been given...
There are many theories regarding the causes of schizophrenia: genetic, brain structure, social, stress-related, drug-induced, trauma-response, the dopamine hypothesis. The field of explanat…