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Part 4: Neurodiversity: New Paradigm, or Trojan Horse?

Mad in America

Editor’s Note: Mad in the UK and Mad in America are jointly publishing this four-part series on neurodiversity. The series was edited by Mad in the UK editors, and authored by John Cromby and Lucy Johnstone (with part three written by an anonymous contributor). The series is being archived here.

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Exile: My Cure for Psychosis

Mad in America

If I am correct in saying that exile can cure someone of schizophrenia, then I have proven that psychiatrists are wrong in claiming that mental illness results from a chemical imbalance in the brain. I know very well that my psychosis was a consequence of numerous traumas that had nothing to do with the chemicals in my brain.