Understanding Schizophrenia with Dr. Xavier Amador

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Xavier Amador about schizophrenia.
The discussion delves into the essence of schizophrenia, highlighting its effects on individuals and their circles. Dr. Amador illuminates current treatment methodologies, underscores the importance of mental health service accessibility, and discusses the broader societal impacts of this frequently misunderstood disorder.
Dr. Amador is a clinical psychologist and Visiting Professor of Psychology at the State University of New York. Previously, he was a Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology at Columbia University, as well as Director of Psychology at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. He was also co-chair of the Schizophrenia and Psychotic Disorders section for the DSM-IV-TR. He is currently founder of the LEAP Institute, which aims to bridge understanding and foster treatment acceptance among those who may not recognize their mental health challenges.
Host: Brent Franson, Founder & CEO, Most Days
Guest: Dr. Xavier Amador
Music: Patrick Lee
Producer: Patrick Godino

[@JungleJargon]

Schizophrenia is curable in some cases by way of the person taking the initiative to change what the person believes which isn’t easy but it’s possible. The hallucinations and delusions lose their power over the person when the person doesn’t believe in them.

[@RobertJosephJr.]

You watch this video and you realize we still don’t really have any real understanding of these complex set of pathologies. Just two guys talking back and forth about this and that. how traumas react and change in the environment can create schizophrenia symptoms and we have no idea what goes wrong in the brains of these people. It’s an ever changing, ever morphing life destroying and utterly complex inside-out disorder. Antipsychotics are not effective no matter what these professionals pat themselves on the back and say. There are no medications for the mesolimbic dysfunction the amygdala addiction thinking and negative symptoms, no tx’s for cognitive or disabiling disorganized symptoms. The only hope is looking at mitochondrial dysfunction and improving totality of healthy
Mitochondria in the brain and body. These people’s lives are ruined and psychiatry is doing NOTHING to restore true function or prosperity in these people. Do better!

[@davidsprouse151]

I totally agree with this. Lawyers need to hold these folks accountable for outcomes

[@RobertJosephJr.]

@@davidsprouse151 idk I don’t even care about that. Yes there is an issue of psychiatric damage from SSRI’s to people. What I’m concerned about is this profession of people thinking they are doing anything legitimate with the piss poor antipsychotics they have available and the piss poor antidepressants available and the piss poor outlook. It is not good enough! I understand that these conditions are extraordinarily complicated, and it would be easier to just not develop treatments and not pay attention to it and have it go away. The new glycine inhibitor, TAAR1 and muscarinic drugs coming out to are NOT GOOD ENOUGH and they are all failing in clinical trials. These people need powerful mitochondrial increasing life altering and treatments. Stop letting people rot away in beds and die. I’m passionate about it because I have seen no change in 300 years of this condition being studied and I’m fed up with psychiatry and their contentedness to let their countless patients rot away and die

[@blessdaily155]

How did Dr. Amador get his brother to accept treatment?

[@KimWH.2]

He has a book, my sister just ordered it, I think he discusses it there.