In sharp contrast, at the 25th anniversary conference of the Canadian Schizophrenia Foundation, held in Vancouver in May 1996, two chronic schizophrenic patients, who met and married after they had recovered, described their own illness and their recovery on the orthomolecular program. They had both failed to respond to previous modern psychiatric treatment. Modern psychiatry has not been very good at treating schizophrenia. One need only glance over at the homeless people who live in the our city centers for the evidence. Think what would happen if half the homeless suffered from tuberculosis.
Tuberculosis is contagious, but in a social sense so is schizophrenia.
In my opinion, many patients today are no better off than they would have been in 1950 when they were incarcerated in hopelessly overcrowded dungeons called hospitals. Perhaps they would have been better off then, for at least they had a few nurses and doctors to look after them. Today patients are released early, after a short stay in hospital in order to start them on tranquilizers. They are discharged as soon as their major symptoms are partially suppressed, but long before they have regained enough health to permit them to live on their own, or with their families. The reason why modern psychiatry has failed is that it has such a narrow vision of what to do.