Posted by bleauberry on March 24, 2018, at 8:01:35
In reply to Re: Lyme disease - a neuropsychiatric disease » bleauberry, posted by SLS on March 24, 2018, at 7:19:05
That is very interesting. Thank you for that.
My personal hypothesis is that most - maybe 7 of 10 - suicides are actually due to a serious brain insult from an ongoing unsuspected tick-born infection, not due to a life crisis.
I also commonly see the 'molehill to mountain' phenomenon, where normal every day things which are molehills in your life - issues but not big issues - become unsurmountable mountains. Nothing actually changed except your perception. The issue which is a molehill in your life didn't suddenly turn into a mountain - but your perception of it did. That is very commonly what a tick-born infection does to a person's thinking and behavior. And it is my hypothesis that in this stage is where suicide is at great risk, because the person has no idea what is happening, feels totally out of control, and because the mountain looks so huge it feels hopeless. Hopeless = suicide.
Disseminating new knowledge upon physicians and psychiatrists seems ridiculously, painfully, almost torturously slow. I am always encouraged when progress is made.
As an example, when I got my clinical diagnosis and started treatment 5-6 years ago, there were no LLMDs in my state. None. I had to drive 6 hours round trip to Dartmouth Medical School in a neighboring state to see one of the six LLMDs in that state. I later switched to my 2nd LLMD who was only a 3 hour round trip. But today, in my own state, there are two LLMDs and one LLNP. These people already know today, especially in terms of psychiatry, what the average doctor probably won't know for another 5-10 years. The process is torturously slow! And the CDC is little assistance, though they seem to be slowly admitting over time they kind of got it wrong all these years on some of their initial assumptions of tick born disease.
For short term or acute management of symptoms these are my general population favorites:
Prozac first, Zoloft 2nd.
Zyprexa first, Abilify or Seroquel 2nd.
Ritalin first, Adderall second.
Nortriptyline
Alprazolam or LorazepamFor long term:
Comprehensive, psychiatric meds are only a portion of a larger integrated approach.Maximum time from beginning of psychiatric treatment to either remission or maximum functionality - significant improvements - 5 years. I think when we take longer than that, as I did, as many here do, then we are doing something wrong and should be more curious, asking more questions, expanding the field of knowledge outside of the limited scope of brain-altering chemicals.
That is just my vantage point and opinion, based on the school of hard knocks and experience.
> This guy is a hell of a doctor. I hope you find some of what he writes helpful.
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> https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5481283/
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> - Scott
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