Is this book just really bad or am I missing something?

>but drugs only enhance the likelihood of developing schizophrenia if you're predisposed to it
wrong

>we could ever know that you were going to get it before you got it
Do you also believe in God's divine plan for each of us?

Its a towering work of art.
And a less than great read. I think it sits outside literature to a certain extent.

You've got to see it in the time and climate in which it came out.
He did violence to society with a typewriter.

You can't be accused of edgelording if they are actually going to arrest you for it.

keep on believing whatever you would like to believe. there is no evidence of drugs having been a direct cause in the development of schizophrenia in a patient and any mental health professional will agree with that statement. drugs can however certainly cause psychosis -- a symptom of schizophrenia. really schizophrenia isn't very well understood at this point in time and any sweeping statements about why or how it is developed should be taken with a large grain of salt.

what? genetics play a large role in assessing the likelihood of patients developing certain health problems. it is one indicator of many that is taken into account when creating risk-profiles/suggesting pre-screenings.

>there is no evidence of drugs having been a direct cause in the development of schizophrenia in a patient

>drugs can however certainly cause psychosis -- a symptom of schizophrenia.

lol
stupid dumb retard

naked lunch is perhaps the ultimate anti-drug novel, but it's anti-drug from a position one must have done lots of drugs to arrive at.

I post where I can, I'm not some wageslave shackled to a home office.

Having temporary audio/visual hallucinations as a result of having a high fever is not evidence of someone being schizophrenic. It's only a symptom that schizophrenia shares with another condition. Does that mean that the person with the fever should now be diagnosed with schizophrenia? No, it does not.

>backpedaling this hard

>using a WebMD symptom list to diagnose Schizophrenia