Posted by baseball55 on April 19, 2016, at 18:54:42
In reply to Re: Science. » Lamdage22, posted by Hello321 on April 19, 2016, at 13:50:43
> > These books are a plague that seems to preferably hit America.
>
Americans have always believed in the power of positive thinking.> I want to know just why many people
> start thinking "crazy conspiracy theorist" every time something outside general public opinion is brought up? We call people "sheep" when they only buy into what the authorities tell them, unless we also buy into it.I don't think anti-grain diets are outside of public opinion these days, though they may be outside of actual public behavior. I know half-a-dozen people on paleo diets. Everyone is gluten free. Low carb diets - Atkins and South Beach are perennially popular. I've heard two interviews on NPR in the last two months about how we need to go back to the protein-fat-vege/fruit diet of our remote ancestors.
Part of the issue here with the emphasis on diet and exercise and whatever is that this is the standard response of people who know us, want us better and understand nothing about mental illness. Just get out of bed and you'll feel better. Go to the gym and you'll feel better. Come to a yoga class with me and you'll feel better. Jeez, why don't you just feel better? Snap out of it. Eat a healthier diet and you'll feel better.
Therapy is the only non-med treatment shown to work, though it works best with meds. But my therapist is a psychiatrist and he feels, though he believes strongly in therapy, that, when I am depressed, we can't really do therapy. All we do is work on stabilizing me.
poster:baseball55
thread:1088191
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20160331/msgs/1088309.html