Mental illness is not an inherited genetic proposition.  Inborn errors of metabolism may predispose but are not causal factors of the condition. Rather, mental illness results from intoxications and aversive lifestyles.  Acquired conditions like brain tumors, infectious disease, and generalized metabolic disorders can cause mental illness indirectly and the underlying condition is treated rather than the overt phenotypic reaction.  The main causes of schizophrenia are major intoxications that disturb cognitive thinking or elucidate aversive memories that disturb behavior. 

The intoxications that cause schizophrenia are atropine intoxication, psychedelic intoxication, and sympathomimetic analog intoxication.  These causal elements contain about 90 percent of all acute and chronic cases seen in the clinic and they can be treated. 

Atropine and its congeners are non-competitive analogs of acetylcholine.  The agent binds to neural receptors and won’t let go.  The brain is unable to break down or detoxify these agents.  The site of action is primarily the frontal and parietal lobes of the neocortex.   This is why the subject exhibits disordered thinking or abhorrent memories.  To treat an atropine overdose, the chemical that exerts the most effective competitive effect on neurons is nicotine.  Most mental patients must become cigarette smokers as nicotine pushes atropine off the neural receptors and the free base present in cigarette smoke is the most effective way to deliver nicotine.  Phenothiazine antipsychotics help by blocking the dopamine receptors in the Archi cerebrum and limbic structures so clinical behavior is not so violent or overt.  Newer novel atypical antipsychotics like risperidone that look like atropine molecularly may help displace atropine from neurons but at the cost of impaired mentation and a decrease in intelligence quotient.  Probably the best treatment for schizophrenia is non-polar volatile solvents liberally poured on a subject daily.  Hexane and ethylene diamine solubilize atropine, carry it to the bloodstream, and then excrete it by the kidneys., The use of non-polar solvent results in brown-colored urine, evidencing the presence of high levels of atropine.  People of low socioeconomic status use ethanol, present in alcoholic beverages to excrete atropine as ethanol is slightly polar and acidic which dissolves alkaloids for excretion.

Psychedelic drugs cause schizophrenia.  LSD, Mescaline, and psilocybin are indole alkaloids with a structure similar to serotonin and its primary metabolite, Hydroxy indoleacetic acid.   Psychedelic drugs pass to the Archi cerebrum or primitive animal brain, cause indole active neurons to fire, and are not broken down by cellular enzymes hence the long duration of action and persistent loitering effect.  They eventually diffuse out of the brain by physical osmotic laws of diffusion.  Hallucinations are the result of persistent firing in the occipital area of the neocortex area 18 as directed by the globus pallidus and limbic system.  Since all parts of the brain are intricately connected,  damage to the primitive brain can be evidenced by changes in cognition, disturbances of memory, and sensory abnormalities.   The visual disturbance of chronic alcoholism is probably due to Wernicke’s malnutrition rather than ethanol itself.

In our capitalistic society probably the agents of major abuse are sympathomimetic amines, notably methedrine also known as speed.  In a sad society where all good jobs are saved for the children of the wealthy,  citizens self-medicate with speed to avert the sordid feeling of poverty present in our society.  Methedrine abuse leads to high blood pressure and kidney failure, paranoid schizophrenia, and premature heart attack.   Because sympathomimetic congeners are competitive agents and broken down by Monoamine oxidase present in the dendritic end of neurons,  effects are short-lived, tolerance develops rapidly and habituation ensues with an ultimate nervous breakdown or heart attack.  On the street, speed is cheap and the most readily available of the aversive illegal substances of abuse.  Because sympathomimetic agents act in the nigrostriatal system of neurons in the archicerebrum, they can be blockaded with dopamine-blocking agents that penetrate the blood-brain barrier like the tricyclic phenothiazines first recognized in Germany in World War 2.  The use of phenothiazines is safe and economical and the often heralded side effect of Parkinsonianism is rarely seen except in unusually high doses or disease of chronic duration greater than 20 years.  The abandonment of phenothiazines in the treatment of mental illness resulted from the loss of patent rights of the drug companies and the synthesis of the newer atypical antipsychotics that have a patent duration of 30 years with one ten-year extension upon arbitration.  Nowadays, like everything, economic factors rule the day. 

Depression or more exactly endogenous depression not due to causal agents is a hot topic.  People whose life is horrible due to economic factors or poor intimate relationships become depressed.  It used to be that depressed people ate a lot of chocolate or drank hot cocoa because chocolate contains phenylethylamine, a nor-epinephrine congener.   That is no more.  Now Monoamine oxidase inhibitors are the mainstay with the side effects of psychosis and high blood pressure.   Additionally, some agents like bupropion are said causally to induce abdominal aneurysms.  Depression in reality can be due to an intoxication of a chronic nature with heavy metals most notably those of the uranium or lanthanide series.

The soldiers returning from Iraq with Chronic persistent depressive anomaly merely are soldiers that have been fed by the nationals,  the depleted uranium shells that tanks unceasingly hurl at them.  Uranium, and most notably thorium cause endogenous depression, and the treatment is chronic chelation therapy in the hands of a trained professional intravenously.  All the psychology in the world will not avert a gross systemic intoxication. 

Gone are the days of Sheldon’s somatotypes where tall lanky people are schizophrenics, short bald people are manic-depressives, and normal people or euthymics are people with mental illness which is not heritable but causal and elucidated by intoxication.  Medicine is now a big business and costs one-third of the national budget.  What happened to the days when doctors were welcomed everywhere and health science was a service, not a sale?   Vance Packard in all his genius had no direction or advice as to where the nation should head, regarding health care.  Will anyone care to ask him, again? 

Good morning Dr. Lector says Dr. Wracks.  I just had an egg, a strip of bacon two toast, and two cups of coffee and I feel great.   I have something I want you to see says Dr. Lector.    We don’t know what happened to this man or if there are any antecedents but his family brought him here to eventually be committed.   We have to evaluate him and the board will agree to a final disposition.   I feel he is a catatonic schizophrenic but he could be something else.   A fine line exists between genius and schizophrenia.   I would appreciate your opinion.   The patient is an older man with white hair, tall with an ectodermic somatotype.   He sits in a chair and doesn’t move a muscle for hours at a time and the staff cannot even see him breathe.  However sometimes upon observation, he will move rapidly to a position of superiority to his keepers, like a caged tiger.   Everyone is afraid of him and says it is spooky.  One of the staff reports that one day he was hanging from the ceiling like a bat and they don’t know how he did it.  The prognosis with the direst eventuality is catatonic schizophrenia and dual personality types. There exists no cure for catatonia or dual personality and clinicians like to keep them sedated for their lifespans.  I am going to show him to you, do not speak or make any noises until the conclusion of our observation.  Are you ready?

Yes Dr., Lector let’s go.

The padded cells stand on one side of the unit and are sequestered by a huge oak blast door.  If all else fails, a staff member must make it to this door and it closes automatically with an audible click.  The two clinicians come to the huge door and Dr. Wracks opens it with the key slung around his neck.  Dr, Lector precedes and they come to the final padded cell, the one closest to the end of the unit, the one it is easiest to run from.   Dr. Lector looks at Dr. Wracks and opens a portal in the solid wooden door.  The portal hangs at eye level, has a lock on it and swings open fully so a staff member can look inside.  The dimensions are 12 inches by 12 inches.  It is unlocked, the door swings open on two sturdy hinges and Dr. Wracks looks inside.  Sitting in a chair next to the table is the patient.   He has stark white hair and wraps bedsheets around his body so he looks like a Messiah.  He is tall and lanky with a long angular head.  He doesn’t move, not an inch, not a muscle almost like a plastic mannequin.  Dr. Wracks knows he only moves when no one is watching.  Dr. Lector Closes the door.   What do you think says Dr. Lector?

Catatonic says Dr. Wracks.  Overtly catatonic.  He washes himself and uses the toilet without help says Dr. Lector.   Could he be pretending to query Dr. Lector?   What is his medication asks Dr. Wracks.  We have him on Haloperidol ten mg each day IM with no effect.  There is no betterment or worsening of symptoms and the extrapyramidal effects of the butylphenones do not manifest.  If you must go inside bring an attendant with you and have him stand on one side.  For some reason, mental patients can move quickly when induced.  Please be on your guard with him.   You will check him twice a day through the portal and make a report if there are manifest changes of any kind.  Please keep me informed, asserts Dr. Lector.   I have things to do and he walks off. 

Having free rein in a psychiatric lockup may be exhilarating to some, and prestigious to others but Dr. Wracks views the situation as an ominous burden, not to be shared by a single individual.  Seven more weeks must pass before rotation back to surgery, thinks Wracks. He hopes the nose of the director heals quickly.  Would I like to do this for the rest of my life?

In and out of the subsections with the key and the doors close automatically with a large click.  Dr. Wracks makes the rounds.  He asks the medication nurse in the plexiglass enclosure if all is well and whether there have been any side effects or adverse reactions to the psychiatric medications.  Acute mania and violence quickly resolve with a 100 injection of Benadryl intramuscularly.  He asks the muscular attendants who circulate through the unit if there are any current episodes of violence or acting out.  They say no and the Wracks circulate and move to the canteen where the stabilized patients of long duration go to pass the time.  There is a big color television on the wall, and they sit around in sofas and chairs and smoke cigarettes, and look up at the large ticking wall clock to see how soon the five o’clock dinner will ensue.  Dr. Wracks makes rounds one more time and looks in to view the catatonic.  There is no one in the room and Dr. Wracks cannot see anything but a chair a table and a draped white sheet.   He knows the patient is crouching low in front of the door or to the side to preclude viewing, Dr. Wracks slowly closes the viewport, locks it, and precedes the blast door as fast as he can move.  The big door closes with a loud click.  Dr. Wracks asks the nurse in charge behind the screened barricade if the catatonic patient is in the medical unit to have some tests.  She says he is in his room and this happens often, usually furtive activity precedes a meltdown, says the Wracks.  Be certain that the attendants are present should you have to enter or give him his food tray.  She says she will and makes a note in her log. 

The Wracks exits the section and goes to dinner.   He has a piece of chicken, a vegetable, and a small shortbread biscuit.  For dessert, a small bowl of apple cobbler appears waiting for him.  He goes back to his room in the resident’s quarters and the gang for the most part exits to the local bar.   A Cuban student is there in her cell studying for the licensure examination.  He goes back to his cell, takes off his clothes, barricades the door with the reading table, pulls the covers over his body, says a prayer and goes to sleep. Seven weeks to go. 

What is Antimatter?

Antimatter can be thought of as the opposite of matter, or matter that has properties opposite or contra-positive of the normal steady state.  Simplistically, antimatter can have anti-protons that have the same mass as a proton but the charge of an electron, anti-neutrons: neutrons that have no charge but an opposite or -out-of-phase wave associated with it, and anti-electrons which have the same mass as electrons but a positive charge. In a more real and concrete interpretation, antimatter has the same properties as matter but in a 180-degree out-of-phase wave nature associated with it. To quantify these relationships is Albert Einstein’s dream: a unified field theory. The symbol of Tai Chi Chuan, which is two fishes In eight is in reality the sine wave.  Chinese ascetics believed that all matter exists in a wave function. Put another way, an antimatter particle, colliding with a matter particle will annihilate and release energy in the electromagnetic spectrum equivalent to the equation energy equals mass times the speed of light squared.  A gram of hydrogen annihilating another gram of anti-hydrogen could be said to liberate approximately ten to the thirty-ninth power joules of energy as a wave in a microsecond burst. This amount is identified as a wave addition out of phase annihilation. This amount of energy released per unit of time is astounding and cannot be harnessed for useful power because of its extreme magnitude.

Physics of antimatter annihilation

An antiparticle of a given mass can annihilate another particle of matter of the same atomic weight.  To use dissimilar particles of mass and anti-mass reveals a difficult means to bring them together to annihilate.  Using like particles of anti-matter and matter makes bringing the two particles together of the lower quantum threshold for capture and annihilation.  The reaction of plutonium fission can be likened tangentially to reacting antimatter with matter in the sense that the two components of the reaction must be held together for a minimum amount of time for the reaction to ensue or the elements will quickly separate and the reaction quench.  As in a fission bomb, plutonium wedges must be held together to initiate a chain reaction, two particles of matter, anti and real must be collided and maintained in union for annihilation to proceed. This is because the annihilation of matter and antimatter is not a usual or natural event and the forces of God keep them separate.  

Antimatter can be contained in a near vacuum within a magnetic field as long as matter opposite to the antimatter is not brought into proximity.  For example: an atom of hydrogen antimatter under real conditions will not react with an iron atom because of the dissimilarity of mass and the shielding of the nucleus by barrier particles.  These will only react at relativistic conditions found only in nature at the center of a sun or neutron star.

Production of antimatter

Antimatter can be produced on earth by spinning particles or atoms in a tokamak until the particles change nature at the speed of light.  Matter spun in a circle at the speed of light eventually changes character and can be siphoned off with magnets and contained in a vacuum.

Passing energy through various crystal lattices changes the frequency of the energy in the electromagnetic spectrum

Uses of Antimatter

At present no way exists to realize the great amount of energy liberated in a microsecond by the reaction of antimatter.   No other use comes to mind except in weapons of mass destruction. In the future, the energy released by antimatter annihilation will power starships to different galaxies and fuel huge and awesome lasers and particle weapons.  The harnessing of antimatter energy will provide the means to transgress time and the warp as envisioned by Albert Einstein.  Energy can be converted to specific forms such as gravity waves and the essence of time itself.

On a positive note

The universal field equation envisioned by Albert may soon become a plausible reality.