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Reply to ""Can racism cause schizophrenia?""

for  me the reframing is more like reminding us about an individual's needs and how to help - in the balance of the unique physical things going on in a person's brain, lets call it "schizophrenia" and our responses and interactions with the person - individually and collectively through our social institutions.  There is such a rush to: fix, define and label people, especially when hitting adult psychiatry, vs. the children's mental health system.  For sure we need to be there to support, offer medicines, etc. in the "help" from the care systems end, but at the social/community level, for each of us living in Canadian society we need to somehow put more substance and understanding to terms that get tossed about: Social Determinants of Health, The Recovery Model, the Out of the Shadow's Royal Commission's concept of "hope."  Its beyond schizophrenia.

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