Posted by JohnL on October 20, 2000, at 6:14:27
In reply to SOME OBSERVATIONS ABOUT US ALL, posted by GLYN on October 19, 2000, at 18:52:29
GLYN,
I think your observations are right on. Some of the finest, smartest, and most caring people are right here. People I've never even seen! Why don't I meet these kinds of articulate intelligent people in real life? I must be walking among them everyday and just don't realize, I guess. Perhaps it takes a safe board like this for people to open up and show their true colors.One point I must state my opinion on. That is, cures do exist. I've seen plenty of people, even right here at this board populated with the toughest cases, get totally cured. A total cure is simply correcting whatever chemistry is awry causing the symptoms.
What makes finding a cure so difficult I think is the way we go about it. I would think for example that we need to first identify through a series of steps what chemistry is underlyiing the patient's symptoms, so we will narrow down our choices as to how to correct that chemistry. For example, is this patient's symptoms dopamine related? Serotonin? Norepinephrine? None of the above, but instead electrical instability? Chemical instability? Thyroid, even if blood tests are within range? We don't try to figure out what system in the brain is malfunctioning. Instead, we go with generally accepted principles of psychiatry which basically endorse trying this drug first, that one second, maybe add on this one or that one, etc. And hopefully through all this guessing we will stumble onto something that works. I believed in this way for many years. But one day I asked myself, why don't they try to figure out what the real problem is? I mean, for example, with the popularity of SSRIs, you can't possibly try to convince me that all these people have low serotonin. No way. That's only a tiny piece of the pie. There's a lot more to it than that.
When the real root cause is identified and then corrected, total cure is available. Of course, it will take longterm pharmacotherapy to maintain that cure. But we first have to identify what system in the brain is malfunctioning. There is a series of logical steps we can take to do that. Unfortunately, I know of only 6 doctors in the entire country that use these steps.
John
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