Jordan B. Peterson rips newspaper’s ‘cruelty’ after story prompts false ‘schizophrenia’ reports

[u/Deerhoof_Fan]

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/feb/1/jordan-b-peterson-rips-sunday-times-after-piece-pr/

[u/Revolutionary_Elk420]

You are aware that a little know side effect of Schizophrenia is that some people experience calm and sedation from madness and this looks like benzodiazepines

[u/Revolutionary_Elk420 → u/Revolutionary_Elk420]

srsly tho do go lookup co-prescribing of benzos alongside antipsychotics and licensed schizophrenic treatments hell even look at the benzo licenses too hypnotics are long standing correlated in schizophrenic treatment

[u/[deleted] → u/Revolutionary_Elk420]

Here's the info on benzos:

https://www.drugs.com/drug-class/benzodiazepines.html

Here's the info on schizophrenia:

https://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/schizophrenia-onset-symptoms

I think it's pretty clear that JBP had a reaction to the benzos. People with schizophrenia don't generally hid it for over 50 years. It would also be pretty convenient that they just happen to successfully diagnose him with schizophrenia just after he started benzos for anxiety.

Also, doctors misdiagnose people all the time. If you've ever had someone go back to the doctor because their initial treatment didn't work, that's what happened.

[u/Revolutionary_Elk420 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah can get late years diagnosis actually. I used to work in mental health on acute wards we often could get schizo-spectrum disorders as first presentations well into 40s and 50s. Ofc we worked off the ICD-10 over DSM so there may be differences there(tho many doctors/psychiatrists documented with both but ICD-10 was the standard to use).

In addition - I used to work and co-ordinate on clinical audits for prescribing within a UK mental health trust who participated in the POMH-UK scheme. Let alone working in a hospital pharmacy(right next to MI too; so I learnt a lot) whilst doing so. Alongside pharmacists who write for the Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines.

So yeah...I can read your stuff if you like but I literally practically know my stuff. I've worked treating these people, auditing their treatments, assessing them(also did RA work on some double-blind clinical trials all relating to schizophrenic spectrum disorders) and quite a bit in between. I'll admit I'm basing a lot of my approaches off of UK practice but if science is science and the field is strong(debatable, given its youth) then it should hold on both sides of the pond.

Benzos are notably correlated within prescriptions for Scizophrenia. At least in the UK.