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Schizophrenia Bulletin Advance Access first published online on September 4, 2008
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Schizophrenia Bulletin, doi:10.1093/schbul/sbn111
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Schizophrenia—A Victim's Perspective

K. Pushpa1,2 and Raj Vihar2
2 P.O. Nanminda, Pin Code-673613 , Calicut district, Kerala, India

1 To whom correspondence should be addressed; tel: 0497-2855020, fax: 0495-2855020, e-mail: pushpak50{at}ymail.com.

This article is based on my own personal experience of having undergone "coma treatment" and being given approximately 37 coma injections between the period 1983–1993 despite the fact that I was not psychotic and was normal in every way. The experiences I had following the injections and the forcible administration of innumerable antipsychotics and drugs have shaped my perspective of what it is to be a victim of "iatrogenic" psychiatric treatment—iatrogenic because it induced symptoms of schizophrenia or at the least schizoidism in a normal person like me—an inability to think, feel, and reason, over time. I have also with my own eyes seen at least 7 or 8 women who look me (my clones) that has reinforced my belief that the injections split me. The British psychiatrist, Richard David Laing (Encyclopedia Britannica 2004 DVD [DVD]) also theorized that it is the division of the self that leads to the symptoms of schizophrenia such as splitting and fragmentation of the mind.

Keywords: coma injections / hallucinations / affective symptoms / iatrogenic / collective unconscious / cloning

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