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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. at any one time as many as fifty one million people worldwide are suffering from ms devastating and tragic affliction bestselling author and environmental journalistic russell sutton franklin was diagnosed with schizophrenia at the young. age of seventeen and the years that followed his son spent time in and out of various hospitals and institutions 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 a 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 saw a life changing passage between schizophrenia and show me that which is out now in paperback and he joins us from los angeles thank you as always mr russell for coming in. thanks tyrrel great to be with you again today 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 when your son went to africa why were you going there. well first of all i want to say that i'm not anti-medication but as you said the side effects from these so-called anti-psychotic medications that are prescribed pretty much one size fits all for people are pretty severe and my son it in one point in time put on one hundred pounds in weight because of one medication

he was on zyprexa and 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 through a psychologist james hellman who's biography i was writing i'd come across a man named melodramas so maybe who was from west africa it worked with james hellman in the men's 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 sham and 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 do it where you 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 franklin to him but he said you know eventually you've got to go come to my country come to bring a fossil and bring franklin's mom who 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 that's what we set out to do in the beginning of twenty sixteen and spent a remarkable month there and that's incredible and as you said after spending that time there and you know what was that time like what what did they have your son doing what how did they connect with him and how did they you know essentially get him off this massive amount of pills because you said the book that eventually did you know reach the point where it doesn't have to take as many pills now today as it did that i'm correct. that's 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 he's called a holy man he's 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 didn't 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 we'd 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 don't know exactly what was in them but we trusted it and then we also later went through when 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 didn't i mean every day was a mystery we didn't 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 chickens there were goats eventually 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 wasn't just the fact that i think that. the alternative that that was happening there or the adjunct to western medication i would say but also the fact that we were doing it to. either 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 over the next year and a half. franklin reduced his medications substantially now i don't say that what we went through over there was a cure all. it wasn't a miracle cure or anything i mean once he finally went off his western medication entirely with his doctor's 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 in a real success and it also brought light 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 it's kind of like hey you know here's the pill go home get better when you know we don't look at the psychological process of that we don't look at the bonds and things like that that human beings as social animals need to also heal us aside from just the chemical injection.

but it's absolutely true you know they found in programs because not everybody can go to have to west africa like we did and my son's biracial so that also was a factor in the importance of it but you know there's a program in finland for example called open dialogue where they have found they're trying to duplicate it now in the u.s. there were more of these programs back in the seventy's 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 they've been going through and and they found that up 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 they're going back to work they're going to school. all and it's it's 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 that's all about money really i mean the abilify which is one of the medications my son was on is a seven billion dollars a year business and they often prescribe it now for people who don't just have they say that you know if you have depression you should take this because you might be bipolar i mean you know there's a there's a big and the pills are very very expensive unless you have s.s.i. or some kind of benefits so you know it's and now they're prescribing these medications more and more to younger and younger children as well as as older people who are in nursing homes i thought 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 i'm not against medication i'm not saying you need to go off it entirely medication has its place but there's a real overemphasis 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 band-aid 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 the sharman through that you did was you know more of that kind of preventative healing whether mental mentally spiritual or even physically. oh yeah i think so i think in every respect and you know it gave it gave franklin a belief that there was something 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 he's living with his mom again in baltimore and he's more social than the most socially oriented but he's been i think since before he had his brain. down and he's doing his art again very regularly he's 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 he's beginning to find himself again in his own way and what he wants to do and in the future so it's 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 that's so true and you know schizophrenia and mental illness again is one of those it's one of those afflictions i think that or it's far too easy for people to kind of push off and usually say i will go for depression i will that's their fault or oh it's 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 i'm sure any last thoughts russell as we wrap up here . well you know just that in traditional societies indigenous societies like in

africa there's often a relationship shamans are often considered to be fairly close to the so-called mental illness spectrum i mean they don't they don't look at mental illness the same way that we do they're they're considered people as i consider my son to be those with special abilities with psychic capabilities that most of us don't have and a world health organization study a few years back found that that in so-called poor countries that didn't 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 for you know i say i don't disdain it all but well but i think it's very important to look for alternatives for sure thank you so much for coming on once the mr russell always a pleasure to have. we want to thank you. thanks so much kyra. when we hear of the so-called resistance movement in the u.s.

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as strikes by the u.s. led coalition hit syria and the pro-government forces fighting isis the u.s. central command says the attack was carried out to defend and american but it's great. it's the final day before the start of the winter olympics and dozens of russian athletes are still awaiting a ruling on whether they can compete in south korea but ten. it is over the games don't stop that as norway now faces doping allegations to. the u.k. campaign aimed at overturning gregg's that received nearly hope of a million pounds from us billionaire george soros.

a very warm welcome i'm looking airings this is r.t. international. the u.s. led coalition has conducted as strikes against pro-government forces in syria there have been conflicting reports on the number of casualties with the syrian government saying up to one hundred people were killed u.s. central command described it as a defensive move but russia's defense ministry said the unit was hit as it was carrying out an operation against an eyesore cell. while carrying out an operation to locate and terminate an eyesore sleeper so near form oil refinery a unit of pro-government forces was suddenly shelled and then hit by airstrikes by the u.s. led coalition vis was overkill pure and simple if the numbers are true i would see a demonstration of she have brute force perhaps you know to send perhaps the send a message that nevertheless the united states says that it's it's in syria and it

will defend itself and it has the right to defend itself in this instance in defense of coalition and partner forces the coalition conducted strikes against attack and forces to repel the act of aggression against partners in the global coalition's defeat danish mission if the situation is like how they describe that they were indeed attacks while fighting isis demi have the right to self defense well if you take them at face value you could think so but the people they just killed were also fighting isis and recently they have been making much better progress against isis then the united states led coalition or their partner forces the the s.d.f. the syrian government has of course called all of this an act of aggression unwarranted and unjust but just for you information all of this happened in there is or near a rich oil field and refinery conical it's called it was liberated last

year by the u.s. led coalition very quickly and in fact the u.s. partner forces seem to have a knack for liberating areas with oil under them much quicker than they do those areas that don't have oil under them since since all the oil rich areas were taken in there as ordered by the s.d.f. progress against isis seems to have dropped to a snail's pace but you know regardless. here america has said that it is in syria only to fight isis today isis has been all but defeated in syria but you don't see the pentagon packing its bags our military policy in syria has not changed our priority remains to defeat of isis whether it's in iraq or in syria that is our intent to defeat isis and not do anything more than that united states will maintain a military presence in syria focused on ensuring isis cannot reemerge total withdrawal

of american personnel at this time would restore assad who continue his brutal treatment against his own people is to put its ability to the lack of a fundamental commitment to our agreements that is typical of current u.s. diplomacy including the reasons why the americans stay in syria rex tillerson peter he stated that the only goal in syria was the defeat of ice or now they've got far more ambitious plans with more of the most with the mixed messages here is the pentagon staying general mattis said that the united states will stay in syria we'll fight in syria for as long as the united states wants to fight in syria i mean that's you know pretty direct now you see how this might sound strange to go to syria and advice it and while there you start killing syrians in syria in self-defense. you know i discuss this further with political analyst chris bambery

with the boundry thank you for coming on r.t. international is a pleasure to have you as always why would an anti eisel force see another anti i use the force as a threat that's the big question here. well i think you have to take the americans out the world what was just said that they are not just in syria to fight die there and so i knew i have been in syria for a long time because they want to through our side and as the space to die fades as it becomes clear that it is the syrian forces themselves are largely defeated dyess the priority of overthrowing assad begins to reassert itself in the pentagon and in the white house so i think that's really answer the question the overthrow of assad was always the proper only reason why the americans were in syria their arming and training these groups intervening with air strikes and so on they were diverted from that by dyess know with the possibility of peace of diet inside syria the that

policy be it reasserts itself what it is all but also the fact that this all happened not far from an all or final finally as our correspondent said earlier i do think that could have played a factor in a situation i don't in your affair is important term for the americans because we're talking about relevant small fields in syria i think what is important for is their allies who have in control as all of us can then get revenue just as a diet are able to do previously so i think the importance for that is that it gives these groups in the process so-called free syrian army the so-called moderate rebels access to funding and that's the importance of those oil fields. do you think there's a threat of a possible wider conflict in syria right now and if so is the last thing that anybody wants but how can it be avoided. i think the real problems in syria i mean we have the americans intervening today with airstrikes we have the turks carrying

on their opera their operations in the north on the kodesh controlled areas we have of course the russian presence we are seeing of one of the a putin in turkey coming to some agreement coming to some talks about cooperation all saw one agreeing to join into the peace talks which russia has been trying to broker with around and outside government which the other groups have refused to join in but of course it's a very complicated picture and when you have different competing forces who are not cooperating and the americans are not cooperating as we're seeing quite clearly in terms of the syrian russian access hero then the possibility for accidents the possibility for planes going short down and sort of begin to multiply so it becomes a complex picture here i think the hope has to be that these peace talks which the russians and the reunions have been broken along with the assad government which turkey is now joining can begin to have some purp purchase and we can begin to move

towards a negotiated settlement which is the only settlement the can be and what is essentially a civil war inside syria political analyst chris bambery thank you for your time. the start of the winter olympics in south korea is just one day away but the fate of dozens of russian dozens of russia's athlete still hangs in the balance forty seven sportsmen and women from russia have appealed to the court of arbitration for sport to overturn the international olympic committee decision over alleged doping violations they're willing is due to be announced on friday well among those who filed appeals are some of russia's most celebrated athletes for example six time a limb picked gold medalist victor arm and for cheat games champion anton ship who led artie's in the trying to reports from the olympic host city. for almost two and a half hours the court of arbitration for sport was listening to the russian side which have now left led by their lawyer so these people won't get another chance to

give their arguments to the court and now it is all up to the cast members they promise to announce some sort of decision by noon korean time on friday to go over to the bone to defend on the gas pump listen to our arguments and the decision will be reached within twenty four i was so things won't be decided to with few hours before the opening ceremony which of course puts extra pressure on the russian athletes on wednesday the secretary general hinted that still their mind to be at delay now here we are looking at three scenarios either cas decides to do nothing about the international olympic committee's move not to invite the russian athletes who have never been caught for cheating and without specifying the particular reasons for doing that or the court of arbitration for sport chooses to give the

green light to the russians and in that case that would be a massive blow for the audio scene and that would in turn mean that the international olympic committee discriminated against the russians the third scenario we heard about from an online leak that cannot be confirmed but reports are suggesting that there could be a split decision on the russian athletes i'm standing by here at the temporary home of the court of arbitration for sport and i'll give you any news as soon as it comes out. however some athletes whose participation in the games is not in question are now embroiled in controversy to that so after a norwegian state run broadcaster published a list of drugs the country's team doctor wrote to pyong chan now a remarkable amount of assman medication was noted six thousand doses containing banned substances that's ten times more after the drugs than for example neighboring finland brought to south korea. where the quantity of our.