What I mean is experimentation. What I mean is seeking new ways. Specifically it's things like Soteria. There's nothing like it in the UK. There's no buy in anywhere but in the fringe. And yet alternative strategies for psychosis show promising results in the small number of reviews available.
The NICE schizophrenia guidelines when revised showed little progress but recommended regular health checks. This was it. They still only recommend one thing for treatment resistant schizophrenia, the killer drug clozapine, even though it's been decades since the drug when initially intrroduced slaughtered many patients and was voluntarily withdrawn.
Few are papers but less is the problem. Less interest. It's as if the pseudoscience of psychiatry doesn't look for new or revolutionary ways of treatment. By revolutionary I mean the term as it is often bandied about in the technology industry.
Soteria and the other alternatives would be called game changing technologies if they were computer technology. While san fran's silicon valley exploded across the world the soteria project just survived and had little impact except on the lives of people they helped.
Currently a small group of grass roots camapigners in the north are campaigning for a Soteria facility. That's pretty much it. There's fuck all progress.
Even NICE's recommendation of arts therapies admist recommendations against treatments like counselling for schizophrenia aren't actually happening. Arts therapists are losing their jobs. Only those who follow the dogma of cbt are protected and this solitary treatment is what those that are getting any alternative to a life on drugs, a life shortened because of them.
Many dead already but doctors continue to use drugs.
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