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Schizophrenic Fruitarian.

Unknown userMember07 Mar 2023, 12:05 pm AEDT

Schizophrenic Fruitarian.

I was diagnosed with Schizophrenia in 2006 and began a raw food healing journey in 2011 whereby I lost weight gained from antipsychotics. Last year I relapsed because I stopped medication and Gained back a little weight. The key point in my fifth hospitalisation last year is that I finally came to terms with having Schizophrenia and that I will not cure it with a Fruitarian lifestyle. I hope to resume a lower dose medication after coming off of my depot injection but resuming a socially integrated life feels impossible. I do not have Schizophrenia symptoms on medication but I have no quality of life due to social isolation. If anyone knows of any social groups for mental health in Adelaide South Australia I would love to know. Thankyou.

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Unknown userMember07 Mar 2023, 4:34 pm AEDT

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@justanotherguy you are so lucky not being on medication. I wish I could have ridden through the wave of withdrawals to learn if raw foods can indeed heal Schizophrenia. I'm raw vegan since 2011. There was a woman I followed years ago whose hallucination stayed away so long as she kept up a raw fruitarian diet with a low fat intake. Thing is, how long is long enough for withdrawals off of medication. I know I am okay on a lower dose tablet. That will be my next step once off of a depot. These drugs destroy the body. I felt so lean, light and full of vigour off of my tablet despite the delusions I had at the same time. I wish I knew whether they were Schizophrenia or withdrawals from the medications. I believed I'd be cured until last year.

You have a lot of self-awareness to have differentiated your trauma from a mild past condition. You are so very lucky to be off of medication.

Thankyou for sharing your reply.

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PeregrinefalconSenior Contributor09 Mar 2023, 9:42 am AEDT

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Thank you for the tag @hanami!

@Former-Member aren't you a lovely soul for considering fundraising 💛

If you or anyone else wants to learn some more, we have information about fundraising for SANE here: https://www.sane.org/get-involved/community-fundraising

How lucky we are to have such wonderful people in our community here 😍

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