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According to the National Institute of Mental Health one point one percent of the population over the age of eighteen suffer from schizophrenia if you do the math that means that any any at any one time as many as fifty one Million People worldwide are suffering from this devastating and tragic affliction bestselling author and environmental journalistic russell son franklin was diagnosed with schizophrenia at the young age of seventeen and the years that followed his son spent time in and out. Various hospitals and institute sions and at one point in a particularly brutal bout with the illness even rejected russell as old father like most concerned parents russell exhausted all avenues and treatments that western medicine big pharma had to offer which usually means pills with side effects to even more pills with horrible side effects and then finally pills with side effects for the side effects of the previous horrible pills. In desperation he turned to a very unconventional journey in means of potentially helping his son mr russell writes about those i and i opening and mind opening experiences and discoveries in his book my mysterious son a life changing passage between schizophrenia and shamanism which is out now in paperback and he joins us from los angeles thank you as always mr russell for coming on. Thanks tyrrell great to be with you again today so so tell us what quickly you know what was the journey you took that is at the heart of your book my mysterious you know what are you and your son went to africa why were you going there. Well first of all i want to say that im not antimedication but as you said the side effects from these socalled antipsychotic medications that are prescribed pretty much one size fits all for people are pretty severe and my son it at one point in time put on one hundred pounds in weight because of one medication he was on zyprexa and to become very lethargic had been in hospitals in and out of group homes and you know i was pretty desperate as was his mother and a few years ago i threw a psychologist James Hellman whos biography i was writing id come across a man named melodrama so maybe who was from west africa it worked with James Hellman in the mens groups in this country with robert bly and michael mead in the one nine hundred ninety s. And melodrama when i interviewed him on the phone and said you know if you ever need to get in touch with me about your son feel free to do so and he was a shaman from faso in west africa had been in the u. S. For many years traveled all over the world very renowned person and i contacted him and went to see him in ohio california when he happened to be there doing divinations where he could where he basically would read the pattern that you made with your hand and sort of talk to you about what was going on with the your questions and my Big Questions were about franklin it was a long journey but he had always told us and i had done rituals in this country and i deduced franklyn to him but he said you know eventually youve got to go come to my country come to brick and bring franklins mom who i had not been with from a number of years but bring her along and he said he had a holy man there have his own a shaman that he felt would be able to help franklin reduce substantially if not go off his medication so. Its what we set out to do in the beginning of twenty sixteen and spent a remarkable month there and thats incredible and as you said after spending that time there and you know what was that what did they have your son doing well or how did they connect with him out of the you know essentially get him off this massive amount of pills because you say the book that eventually did you know reach the point where does it have to take as many pills now today as he did that are correct. Thats absolutely correct and we started over there we spent a lot of time in a very small village outside of the second largest city in brooklyn a faso in west africa called bobo and we were there with a hes called a holy man hes an indigenous healer as well as a as a muslim priest and so we attended you know ceremonies or not ceremonies but you know talks that he gave in sermons in his Little Church there and and he didnt speak any english so everything was was translated into french and then into english for us from his native tongue and from the very beginning we had a people scribe he looks at the parents he looks at the young person and and he prescribed us african medicine which we came into in a big metal pot each of us had our own individually prescribed pots and we would bathe with this medicine twice a day and wed also drink from it we replenish it with water every day it had roots on the top of these long tubular roots that were contain some i dont know exactly what was in them but we trusted it and then we also later went through and there were other westerners there too there were about twenty some other people who had come over there with melodrama in january of that year to go through their own healing process of these and we didnt i mean every day was a mystery we didnt know what was going to happen next it was really dusty we were traveling from this Little Village to melodramas village two and a half hours further south dano and we went through also a series of rituals which involved animals and sometimes we would just be with the animal but there were chicken was there were go. Its vengefully a cow and there was ritual sacrifice involved it may be hard for some people to relate to but we went through it all as prescribed and toward the end of the journey franklin began to reduce his medication and you know it wasnt just the fact that i think that they had the alternative that that was happening there for the adjunct to western medication i would say but also the fact we were doing it together and we were doing it as a family unit and we were in it we were in it to see what could happen and they were in a pretty desperate situation and it did pay off i mean it it worked by the end of the well over the next year and a half. Franklin reduced his medication substantially now i dont say that what we went through over there was a cure all. It wasnt a miracle cure or anything i mean once he finally went off his western medication entirely with his doctors permission he did have a relapse and had to go back on medication but a lot less than he was on before so i consider it to be a remarkable experience we went through together and a real success and it also brought as you mentioned you did it together as a family which were interpersonal relationships and the building of that i think we kind of overlook a lot of times in western treatments because its kind of like hey you know heres the pill go home get better when you know we dont look at the psychological process of that we dont look at the bodies and things like that that human beings as social animals need to also heal us aside from just the chemical injection. But its absolutely true you know they found in programs because not everybody can go to app to west africa like we did and my sons biracial so that also was a factor in the importance of it but you know theres a program in finland for example called open dialogue where theyve found theyre trying to duplicate it now in the us there were more of these programs back in the seventys before big pharma kind of took over everything with medication but they found that through these programs of interaction. Where they bring together so you know practitioners of medicine with the peer group especially in the immediate days after someone may have had a psychotic breakdown it really works it works but you know to rip people to talk together about what theyve been going through and and they found that after five years of that program in finland eighty percent of the young people who had an acute breakdown no longer need to be on that very much medication theyre going back to work theyre going to school and its its a pretty remarkable thing and there should be a lot more of it in this country there should also be more emphasis on vitamin therapy and on diet and the things that unfortunately have been overshadowed by the medical model of everything and you know and then that thats all about money really i mean the abilify which is one of the medications my son was on as a seven billion dollars a year business and they often prescribe it now for people who dont just have they say that you know if you have depression you should take this because you might be bipolar i mean you know theres a theres a big and the pills are very very expensive unless you have s. S. I. Or some kind of benefits so you know its and now theyre prescribing these medications more and more to younger and younger children as well as as older people who are in Nursing Homes i think the figure i saw was like fifteen thousand people in Nursing Homes have been prescribed and i psychotics have died as a result of taking those medications so let me again emphasize im not against medication im not saying you need to go off it entirely medication has its place but theres a real over emphasis on it in our western society i would agree and i think that you know one of the big problems that we see too is that we go our direction of medicine western society is directed more towards you know kind of putting the bandaid on the problem or treating after the fact as opposed to preventative would you say that some of the things that you learned in africa through this through their shaaban through that you did was you know more of that kind of preventative healing whether mental mentally spiritual or even physically. Oh yeah i. I think so i think in every respect and you know it gave it gave franklin a belief that there was something you know the besides medication that could be of benefit to him and that we were in it together as a family and with other westerners that he became more and more comfortable with i mean i would say that today hes living with his mom again in baltimore and hes more social most socially oriented than hes been i think since before he had his breakdown and hes doing his art again very regularly hes going to a day program there interacting with people on a social level i mean it it means the world and and you know he was a very talented and still is young person before this happened and you know hes beginning to find himself again in his own way and what he wants to do and in the future so its all about relationships and the fact that you know we were able to find something that would take him beyond just the western medical model to to find be able to find more of who he is thats so true and you know schizophrenia and Mental Illness again is one of those its one of those afflictions i think that or its far too easy for people to kind of push off and usually say i will go for depression i will thats their fault or oh its beyond our control and things like that and i think that your book does a fantastic job of really showing you know how a family can not only deal with this but also you know keep their minds open and keep your eyes open to new things that could eventually bring help but always be careful at the end of the day im sure any last thoughts russell as we wrap up here. Well you know just that in traditional societies indigenous societies like in africa theres often a relationship shamans are often considered to be fairly close to the socalled Mental Illness spectrum i mean they dont they dont look at Mental Illness the same way that we do theyre theyre considered people as i consider my son to be those with special abilities with psychic capabilities that most of us dont have and a World Health Organization study a few years back found that that in. Socalled poor countries that didnt have access to medication like we have in the west that the success rate actually over time when there was just a lot of social interaction with people was a lot better than it is with our western medical outcomes so definitely thats and i dont disdain it all but well but i think its very important to look for alternatives for sure thank you so much for coming on once to mr russell always a pleasure to have you on thank you. Thanks so much kyra when we hear of the socalled Resistance Movement in the u. S. These days threaten to tear down walls and instead build bridges we may very well laugh the chance off is naive idealism but there is no better time than now to remember that sometimes these chance to grow into something much greater. 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Are Kurdish Forces that are being supported by the United States now the purpose of the presence of the United States in syria militarily is rather unclear there have been recent statements from Rex Tillerson the us secretary of state and he says that these forces are in syria the u. S. Military is in syria for the purpose of defeating the i still terrorists the remnants of the i still terrorist in the country making sure that i still does not return to syria however almost immediately afterward he talks about replacing the syrian president bashar assad and how the withdrawal of u. S. Forces would strengthen bashar assad this is what he said making it rather unclear about why the usa is in syria the United States will maintain a military presence in syria focused on ensuring isis cannot really merge total withdrawal of american personnel at this time would restore. It continue his brutal treatment because his own people this point there are roughly two thousand u. S. Troops in syria and in addition to that the u. S. Air force is put patrolling the eastern part of the country u. S. Air forces are patrolling the eastern part of the country and its rather unclear about why theyre there its so stupid its a belief but if you have the lack of a fundamental commitment to our agreement this is typical of current u. S. Diplomacy including the reasons why the americans strain syria bring. Repeatedly stated that the only golden syrup was a piece of ice so now theyve got far more ambitious plans now at this point its in question why are the u. S. Forces in syria now its important to know that theyre in syria without the permission of the internationally recognized government at this point to as its unclear if these forces are there to fight against terrorists or fight against the internationally recognized government that question is becoming even more vital as we see u. S. Forces have now conducted air strikes against the Syrian Government retired u. S. Army Major General paul vali says the best way to resolve the syrian conflict is for all involved parties to negotiate a common policy. I think theres always a motive to see a saudi. Government leader put in syria no less than one of the motivations of the United States should of course you have russia and you should see. Assad the United States russia you can solve this problem you think you simply dont work something out with all syrian elements all working the solutions you cant just throw regime youve got to look at some of the residents of the first of three sure you know are they have to look at you kurds. Sure. Brought together. Were going to see continuation of these conflicts. The twenty eighteen Winter Olympics get underway in south korea on friday but the store some debt overhaul complete the court of arbitration for sport has heard the cases of dozens of russian athletes whove been banned despite being cleared of doping charges. Reports the Olympic Dreams of almost fifty russian athletes right now depend on the court of arbitration for sports and for the young chang games this is their new home. The court convened for a few hours on wednesday but there was no decision we resumed the hearing tomorrow at twelve and possibly a final decision can be rendered at the end of the day tomorrow but if the decisions come after the Opening Ceremony the goal is really to finish before coming out when they return so i would say that for me the last moments for the announcement should be arriving too but possibly could be a moment firstly it is a huge court case as many as forty seven russian athletes and coaches where the queen doping test history against the International Olympic committee but in a sense its a battle between the court of arbitration for sport forecasts and the scene here. Is why a group of russian winter athletes were an issue a few months ago banned for life by the i. O. C. Their medals were taken away but then all of this was overturned by cas last week regardless of that the olympic officials decided to flash a red card plus there were more russian winter athletes who didnt get lifetime bans but despite the fact that they had never been caught cheating before as well they still heard that they cant come to play and check so its the careers and the Olympic Dreams of these athletes that a Swiss Law Firm is trying to save and the hearings are happening right behind these doors swiss lawyers are saying that the grounds for the lawsuits are the nontransparent nature of the criteria plus the on lawful nature of the verdict itself and most importantly discrimination on basis of citizenship and remember that some of the people whose fate is being protected here are reigning olympic champions. Movement does not consider me an athlete who deserves to be a part of it without even providing an explanation ive never given a reason to doubt my only city and my integrity. The games in keurig went to be the first in my career together with my partner weve been working towards these lympics for many years it was my cherished dream. I was showing the lympics one tree and i was working towards this goal throughout my entire sports career ive given no reasons to doubt that im free. So to put it very mildly cass in the i. O. C. Dont see eye to why the cord clears a group of russian athletes but the olympic officials cant be bothered this situation put the two organizations almost on a brink of conflict the secretary general of cass says that there is no crisis but see for yourself who this kind of decision is she streamlet disappointing these decision shows the urgent need. For reform. In the internal structure of couse i must support my panel which reaches so far i think the procedure was fully respected the reaction was very strong and the disappointment of the because they expected another verdict but we should not. Its better to wait before criticizing the decisions themselves because they are not being drafted yet so again there is very little time for cast to make up its mind the opening ceremonies coming up on friday february ninth but whatever the decision is the Russian Support cas and the i. O. C. Will never be the same again. Russians speed skater or go for the corner didnt receive an invitation to the games despite being cleared by the court of arbitration for sport a week ago she thinks the i. O. C. Is penalizing russia after their success at their home games in sochi. But there it is sad for me to see other russian athletes posting videos and photos from korea clearly the first explanation which comes to mind is that they want to get rid of the strongest competitors maybe they were upset because we were ranked first at the sochi Winter Olympics they give no explanation do not share their reasons thats why the fear of losing seems the only plausible motive behind the decision i saw those looks from my foreign colleagues i heard them sneaking around some foreign athletes even took pictures of me it wasnt a pleasant feeling when other athletes refused to enter an elevator with me i felt helpless because there was no way for me to prove them wrong. A lawyer representing some of the athletes appealing against the i. O. C. As ban says all the gold channels are being explored i believe necessary to take all legal steps available to us to ensure participation. In the uk. 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