[Nucluside]

You really should read Szasz before you criticise him. Yours and your familiy's cases doen't prove that the diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia is valid, it just proves that your coping strategies (or lack of them) are shared genetically

[The Red Zone]

"Paranoid schizophrenia" is no more invalid as a description of a condition of certain neural disorders (however ill understood -- and really, all the stuff we hear about "serotonin balance" etc. is about as precise as the medieval medical model of "bodily humors") than "sore throat" is invalid as a description of a condition of a throat infection. In both cases, medicines can assist in restoring normalcy, though certainly good hygeine is helpful in preventing a relapse.

[Rembrandt_fan]

Genetically endowed inadequate coping strategies? Er, okay. Don't feel like giving you a primer on brain chemistry--or reasoning, for that matter--but you go right on believing in the efficacy of Szasz' theories. Meanwhile, I'll stick with what works.