The controversy between people, who support only the opinion of giving the one and only drug treatment, to people who thinks that this treatment should be combined with an Opioid Withdrawal Symptoms treatment, or as the only treatment, never had been more charged than nowadays.
More and more people understand that giving drugs in order to cure a disease, or giving relief to its symptoms, can’t be the only treatment given. More and more find more common the opinion that drugs alone can’t do the whole healing work. There has to be more means.
The conventional psychiatric drugs are used to contradict the direct symptoms of the psychiatric illness and to relief its symptoms, where the other complementary treatment is used to treat the body as a whole and not only as a way of displaying one specific illness. This is exactly why it is better to combine between conventional drugs and a supplementary treatment such as massage, remedies, acupuncture, therapy and so on.
Treating your body as a whole was a common thing in the old era when people understood that in order to treat a disease right, you should treat your body as a complex organism and not as a collection of different organs.
A holistic treatment includes – conversation therapy, gymnastic, taking a diet, quit smoking if needed, reducing weight and fat in your food, taking a massage, reducing pressure and stress in your living routine, traveling and taking a hike, treat your relationship with your surroundings (wife, family, parents, friends etc.), and so on.
If you are looking for the newest, affective kind of treatment for schizophrenia that was developed in the recent years by a world class expert sufferer – Ronen David, then why not reading more about it? Ronen is the author of the “Coping With Schizophrenia Package”. Didn’t hear about it?