`  == Meaningless, pseudoscientific term ==  ``Schizophrenia`` is a srictly meaningless diagnosis. There are variety of different forms of madness which get thrown into this lazy, bucket term 'schizophrenia'. For example there are people who hear voices who are termed schizohrenic but who is say that hearing voices is a bad thing? Joan of Arc heard voices and she became a saint to give just one example. There are people called schizophrenic who do not hear voices. We in the West take comfort in science and try and explain everyhing in it terms. 'Schizophrenia' sounds scientific but it really isn't. Even the derivation of the word is rubbish. The people we label schizophrenia have brains and ECG scans identical to those who are labelled as normal. There is no 'split brain'. It's just nonsense, nonsense spouted by the non-scientists known as psychiatrists. Africa witch-doctors say that the people labelled as schizophrenic are possessed by evil spirits and have just as much - or as little - success advising their patients to chew a piace of tree bark as the highly-paid western pyschiatrists with their expensive and untestable Amisulpride or Haloperidol. Many in the mad community resent this terminology and we are the ones supposedly suffering this psuedo-condition. If it was up to me I would put the whole subject in scare quotes. While I accept that this may be a minority view it one held by most of the people called by this term.   `