SilverbladeTE
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from stuff on a thread that has gone to hell, sigh, and form another regarding the possibility of 500 or so million people being infected with XMRV, a thought struck me:
What if XMRV is a major cause of mental illness across the world and this has been overlooked because of it's hard-too-find nature, and the blind zealotry of some of the psychs?
Syphilis and Lyme disease are both neurological and most definatley, organically based not psychological, both cause serious mental health problems.
Evidence supports the belief that many of the world's worst tyrants and killers were suffering from syphilis and their crimes and madness were to some extent, caused by the disease. See Al Capone, the gangster, for example, who died of end stage syphilis.
Note also work suggesting a pathogenic cause for schizophrenia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis#Possible_link_to_psychiatric_disorders
So, if 500 million people have XMRV, and ME is one facet of how it expresses itself as a disease, and possibily autism, then it could be a HUGE cause of mental health issues.
Note: talking about organically based damage etc here causing mental illness, not bullsh*t "somatoform" lunacy (which has been REPEATEDLY proven wrong in medicla history)
Irritability, memory loss, depression, etc all stem from having ME. There could be other variants of how XMRV affects the brain or other areas causing mental health problems we don't as yet know.
If so, the delicious irony is the "Weasels" could have won Nobel Prizes for uncovering such a huge source of Human misery and thus potential therapies if they had investigated organically based issues rather pyschological, but they were blinded by their own dogma and zealotry
What if XMRV is a major cause of mental illness across the world and this has been overlooked because of it's hard-too-find nature, and the blind zealotry of some of the psychs?
Syphilis and Lyme disease are both neurological and most definatley, organically based not psychological, both cause serious mental health problems.
Evidence supports the belief that many of the world's worst tyrants and killers were suffering from syphilis and their crimes and madness were to some extent, caused by the disease. See Al Capone, the gangster, for example, who died of end stage syphilis.
Note also work suggesting a pathogenic cause for schizophrenia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis#Possible_link_to_psychiatric_disorders
So, if 500 million people have XMRV, and ME is one facet of how it expresses itself as a disease, and possibily autism, then it could be a HUGE cause of mental health issues.
Note: talking about organically based damage etc here causing mental illness, not bullsh*t "somatoform" lunacy (which has been REPEATEDLY proven wrong in medicla history)
Irritability, memory loss, depression, etc all stem from having ME. There could be other variants of how XMRV affects the brain or other areas causing mental health problems we don't as yet know.
If so, the delicious irony is the "Weasels" could have won Nobel Prizes for uncovering such a huge source of Human misery and thus potential therapies if they had investigated organically based issues rather pyschological, but they were blinded by their own dogma and zealotry
