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Schizophrenia and Homosexuality: My Experience and Case Studies

Mad in America

Such a man is in a permanent state of trauma, since his superego wants him to be heterosexual while his libido insists that he is homosexual. This paranoia accentuates the trauma that one constantly feels and leads to a full-blown schizophrenic psychosis. Most people grow up in religions that condemn homosexuality.

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

Mad in America

Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015, acknowledged in 2011, “Whatever we’ve been doing for five de­cades, it ain’t working. When I look at the numbers—the number of sui­cides, the number of disabilities, the mortality data—it’s abysmal, and it’s not getting any better.”