Posted by bleauberry on December 17, 2018, at 15:00:23
"It is cruel that someone with severe depression isn't well enough to get well."
So true. Do you know who said that? Our own SLS. He is spot on and it is heart breaking.
I suggest all the time that patients learn more about what they don't know - inflammation, immune dysfunction, stealth infections, toxins - because in my journey those are the actual bad guys that cause all of our psychiatric symptoms. It is one or a combo of those things.
But to learn about those, you need to read. Blogs, books, articles, chat rooms. And then you need to process what you read and draw your conclusions. And then you need to put it into action and make something happen. This is all extremely hard to do when you are depressed. I know that as well as anyone here.
My own journey was like SLS said. It was so hard. What can make it much easier, as happened with me, is to hook up with a clinician who already knows what you want to learn. The only ones I know of who fit that category of knowledge are the Lyme Literate doctors and nurses. Whether it's Lyme or not doesn't matter. What does matter is what those doctors know that all the doctors don't know. About toxicity, stealth infections, inflammation, and immune system dysfunction.
Easy reading with Marty Ross, M.D. and Bill Rawls, M.D. They don't zero in specifically on treating psychiatry, but they do focus in detail on the things that land us in a psychiatrist's office, and how to improve our outcomes.
There are good days and bad days. On a 1-10 scale, with 10 being the worst depression ever, and 1 being happy, maybe you are in 8-10 range often, but sometimes you experience a 6-8 day, or even just a few hours. Use those times to study and learn. Don't try it when it's too hard or you will get frustrated and give up, and then the whole thing snowballs worse.
And for those reading this who don't know me, I cured 20 years of major depression/bipolar/schizo with antibiotics and herbs. This was following a "suggestion" that "maybe" I had Lyme. You can't really test very well. The suggestion - 3 years later - had turned out to be spot on.
I did every psych med you can name except for Nardil. Most were not helpful. Most made things worse. A few were helpful but not curative - prozac, zyprexa, Ritalin, modafinil, adrafinil, parnate.
Try to be in tune with the flow and use the "better" days or better hours of a day to learn new stuff.
I would love to share what I know. But honestly, the authors out there - including the 2 I listed - as well as Burrascanno - say it all so much better than I do, in detail, in ways a layman can understand and a scientist can understand, at the same time. And of course since they have mountains of experience and study, and they have "M.D." after their names (I don't) they carry a lot more credibility than my words do. But we say the same things. They're just a lot better at it.
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