What is the current medical treatment for schizophrenia? Drugs are often prescribed to schizophrenia in order to reduce the secretion of the brain chemicals and therefore to reduce the symptoms of schizophrenia. When the secretion of the brain chemicals is reduced, the symptoms which are experienced by schizophrenia will be automatically become reduced. The drugs cause the symptoms which are experienced by the patients to reduce but the acute inflammatory state of the brain tissues remain untreated. Nowadays, there are many persons who suffer from schizophrenia and who have not been diagnosed as schizophrenia but are moving freely in our society. On the other hand there are also persons who have been diagnosed as schizophrenia and who had been prescribed with medications to reduce the symptoms of schizophrenia but are not taking the medications and are also moving freely in our society. When schizophrenias are moving freely in our society, they are posing a great danger to our society.

What causes a person to have mental illness? In my opinion the cause of all diseases, including mental illness is the wrong lifestyles. Men start to follow the wrong lifestyle when men have the wrong belief and the wrong mental outlook. When men follow the wrong lifestyles men will have both the physical and emotional stress. When men are not able to manage or to control the stress, the stress will become a long term stress which finally will cause men to have diseases. When many undiagnosed and untreatable schizophrenia, schizophrenias are moving freely in the communities. Such incidents which involved Adam Lanza killed his mother, twenty school children and six teachers of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown in Connecticut will become common phenomena in this world. Adam Lanza who was known to be incredibly smart and quiet person is one of the classical example of undiagnosed schizophrenia who are moving freely in the communities which at the end of the day, led to the death of his mother and twenty six other innocent citizens in the United State of America. In my opinion, the solution to these problems is not simple. I think the problems will not be solved only having a law to prevent the peoples from owning automatic machine guns. What is more important in my opinion is to be able to diagnose and to treat all the schizophrenias who are roaming around freely in our communities and also to have a law to prevent schizophrenias from owning automatic machine guns. The gun is not evil. The evils are the actions of the men who used the machine guns. Men, who are using the machine guns to kill other men, are the ones who are doing evils. When the men who have committed the evils have become good and pious the evils will be eliminated. In this situation, the men who have committed the crime are the men who have mental disability or the diseases known as schizophrenia. When the men who are using the machine guns are untreatable or undiagnosed schizophrenia, their actions cannot be regarded as evils actions and the schizophrenias cannot be charged as criminals in the court of justice. Who are to be blamed for such incidence?

In countries such as Malaysia, which control the ownership of pistols and machine guns, incidents such as in Connecticut, which involved a person with schizophrenia killing others rampantly with automatic machine guns does not exist. The incidents whereby a schizophrenia similar to Adam Lanza kill others also exist in country like Malaysia but the number of persons who are killed by the schizophrenias are not as many as in the United State of America. Why the number of persons who died as a result of an attack by schizophrenia in Malaysia is low in number as compare to America? When schizophrenias in Malaysia made an attack toward anyone, they are able to use only the knives and not the machine guns as their counterparts in the United State of America. Since there is no control in the ownership of automatic machine guns in the United State of America, even schizophrenias are able to own and use automatic machine guns. When even schizophrenias are able to own and use automatic machine guns, it means we are allowing the incident of human massacre by a mentally disabled man to occur more rampantly as it had happened more rampantly in the United State of America.

Who is doing the evils? Is the automatic machine guns are doing the evils? Or the person, who is schizophrenias, is doing the evils? What makes Adam Lanza killed his mother, the twenty school children and six adults of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown? As I had mentioned earlier, Adam Lanza had no reasons to kill them. Adam Lanza was mentally ills and all the actions of mentally ills persons cannot be regarded as evils. The mental illness of Adam Lanza was neither diagnosed as schizophrenia. Adam Lanza was never treated for schizophrenia. He was allowed to own and to use automatic machine guns because he was regarded as a normal person and as a normal person he was also allowed to move around freely in the communities. Why the mental illness of Adam Lanza was not diagnosed in such an advanced country as the United State of America? What are the reasons? Is it because the United State of America has fewer psychiatrists and mental hospitals to treat patients with mental illness such as Mr. Adam Lanza? In my opinion the reason for mental illness of Mr. Adam Lanza mental was not diagnosed and treated in America was not because America has fewer psychiatrists and mental hospitals to treat mental illness patients but because in the United State of America it is very expensive for a poor person like Adam Lanza to obtain medical examination and treatment of mental illness. Anyone who wants to have medical examination and medical treatments in America must have a medical card which is responsible in paying all the bills of their medical expenses.

Medical treatment in United State of America is very expensive and it is probably the most expensive in the world. Since medical treatments in America are very expensive, a person without a medical insurance would not be able to have medical examination and treatment in America. It is of great possibility that the mental illness of Adam Lanza was not diagnosed and treated in America because Adam Lanza cannot afford to have a comprehensive medical insurance. This is the price Americans will have to pay when they make their medical insurance only affordable to the rich and not to the poor. In the United State of American only those with medical insurance can afford to have medical examination and treatments because the medical treatment in America is very expensive. When the poor cannot afford to have medical insurance it means the poor in America would not be able to have medical examination and treatment. Because the medical insurance is very expensive in America, it has created a situation in which a large number of Americans who are poor cannot afford to have the medical insurance which means they cannot even afford to have basic medical examination and treatment. Therefore in America a poor person such as Adam Lanza who was schizophrenias and who was not having medical insurance will not be able to obtain medical examination and treatments in America. Because of Adam Lanza was not diagnosed and therefore treated for schizophrenia, he was regarded as a normal person and was allowed to roam around in the society and was allowed even to own and to use automatic machine guns. When schizophrenias are allowed to own and to use automatic machine guns it means the American societies are constantly in danger. The incident in which Adam Lanza killed his mother, twenty small innocent children and six adults of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown is the outcome of medical practice which is based on making profits that is currently being practice in the United State of America and many other parts of the world.
Who is wrong in this case? In my opinion the whole communities including the governments in the whole world is wrong because the whole government in the whole world are not concentrating on the research on the prevention and treatment of mental disorders which is going to become the most serious and dangerous diseases in the world, in the future. Will schizophrenia and all other mental illness be cured in the future? Many doctors believe that mental diseases such as schizophrenia cannot be cured. Drugs which are prescribed to schizophrenia are meant only to relieve the patients from the symptoms of schizophrenia but not to cure schizophrenia. Patients of schizophrenia are given psychiatric drugs to be taken daily by them until they die and many of them refused to take the medications. When patients of schizophrenia refuse to take the medication, the symptoms of the disease will be manifested and it is often during this time when the patients with schizophrenia will normally do criminal acts. Many persons with schizophrenia do not admit that they are suffering from schizophrenia. Many of them are reluctant to take medication. When there are many persons with schizophrenia who are roaming around in the society and at the same time they are allowed to own automatic machine guns, I would think, the society is in great danger of human massacres. What are the medicines to cure schizophrenia? The number of schizophrenias in the world will continues to rise and if we could not find the cure for schizophrenia a time will come when there will be so many persons with schizophrenia in this world and who are moving around in the communities and posing a real danger of human massacres.

With the grace of Allah I have developed a treatment regime to cure patients who have been diagnosed as schizophrenia. I have started treating patients with schizophrenia since the year of 2004 and many of them who have taken my treatment rigorously are cured from schizophrenia and many are now leading normal lifestyles as others. Whoever is interested to know more about the way I treated schizophrenia can read my articles on the subject with the title Schizophrenia Serious Mental Illness which I have written in my websitehttp://www.mthago.com. All psychiatrists in all over the world regard schizophrenia as a serious mental disease which cannot be cured but in my opinion, schizophrenia can be cured. I believe there is a cure for schizophrenia, because our Prophet Muhammad saw had said with approximate meaning that all diseases can be cured and every disease has medicines to cure the diseases. With this believe, I started a research on the medicines and the method of treatment to cure schizophrenia. Because I believe, men are made of not only body but also mind and soul. I started to develop a method of treatment to cure schizophrenia holistically. With the grace of Allah when I employed a holistic approach to the treatment of schizophrenia, a disease which is known to be incurable becomes curable. What it means a holistic approach to the treatment of schizophrenia? It means in the treatment of schizophrenia, we should not treat only the body but we also should treat the soul and the mind of the patients. When we use drugs we are only treating the symptoms of the disease and therefore with drugs , we will not be able to cure the disease.
Our current medical treatment, treat only the symptoms of the diseases. When we alleviate only the symptoms of the disease, we will make the patients to believe that the disease is cured but in reality only the symptoms of the disease are alleviated but the diseases are not cured. In my opinion we can only cure all diseases, provided our approach to the treatment of diseases is holistic. Men are not made of only body but men are also made of mind and soul. I believe that all diseases of men can be cured when we cured not only the disease of the body but we cured also the disease of the mind and the soul. Do we know how to treat the diseases of the mind? Do we know how to treat the disease of the soul? I think, even the best medical doctors in this world does not know on how to treat the disease of the mind and the soul. When our current medical doctors do not know on how to treat the disease of the mind and the soul certainly our current medical doctors are not able to cure all diseases which have inflicted men including schizophrenia. Our current medical treatments only focus in relieving the symptoms of the diseases but not to cure the diseases. Schizophrenia is one of the typical examples of diseases which cannot be cured by using our current method of treatment which focus only in relieving the symptoms. All diseases can be cured provided we use a holistic approach in the treatment of all diseases.

In my opinion, we have acquired diseases because we follow the wrong lifestyle. In my opinion, the primary causes of all diseases are not germs or bacteria or viruses or allergic reactions but the primary causes of all diseases are the wrong lifestyles. Why we follow the wrong lifestyle? We follow the wrong lifestyles because we have the wrong belief and the wrong mental outlook. If we can cure the wrong belief and the wrong mental outlook certainly with the permission of Allah, we can cure the wrong lifestyle. If we can cure the wrong lifestyles certainly with the permission of Allah we can cure all diseases. How to cure schizophrenia and all other diseases? The first thing, which we must cure in order to be able to cure schizophrenia and all other diseases are to cure the patient’s wrong belief and wrong mental outlook. The basis of correct belief is to believe that there is no one who is able to give bad or good to us except Allah and Allah will gives us bad and good according to our own actions. When we perform good actions Allah will shower upon us good in the form of His blessing and when we perform bad actions Allah will gives us bad in the form of calamities. A good mental outlook is a positive mental outlook and a person is said to have a positive mental outlook when that person thinks that he or she is always able to do anything when Allah is with him or her. A person is also said to have a positive mental outlook when that person always looks at the positive side of everything. A person is said to have a wrong belief when that person believe that there is other than Allah who is able to give good or bad to us, or there is other than Allah who is able to shower blessing or to strike calamities to us.

How many in this world are having wrong belief and negative mental outlook? In my opinion, majority of the persons in this world are having wrong belief and negative mental outlook and their numbers are constantly on the increase. As the number of persons with wrong belief and negative mental outlook increase, the number of persons who suffers from schizophrenia and all the other diseases also increase. In case we could not find in the very near future the cure for schizophrenia and all the other diseases, in my opinion, a time will come when there will be so many persons in this world who suffer from schizophrenia and all the other diseases. When in this world there are so many peoples who suffer from schizophrenia, the incidents which had happened at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, United States of America is going to happen even more frequently in the future not only in the United State of America but also in the other parts of whole world.

Prof Dr Nasoha Saabin
February 2013
Dean of Faculty of Optometry
Twintech International University College of Technology
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia