Posted by Anna Laura on June 6, 2001, at 7:48:18
In reply to Re: I'M DESPERATE, Anna Laura, posted by Miragee on June 4, 2001, at 23:06:03
> Hi Anna Laura,
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> I agree that you can't give up the fight. I have struggled for years trying to get relief through medicines that work for a short time and then cease being effective, but there are other things out there. There is hope.
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> After trying several SSRI's on me, one doc finally gave me Depakote and "WOW." I got part of my brain back. A later diagnosis of Lyme Disease led me down the road to treatment of that illness and now I am feeling better than I have in 20 years.
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> A web site that I found interesting is www.alternativementalhealth.com.
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> > > Hey Anna Laura,
> > >
> > > Don't give up the fight! I occassionally check back to psycho babble to see what is going on. I used to be a regular here. But I am no longer depressed.
> > >
> > > You'll find on this board a lot of people who suffer. With doctors, you're probably not going to get the answers you deserve...because most doctors truly do not understand depression...
> > >
> > > I know this from my own experience of battling depression for many, many years. Today, I live without depression, without medicine. Actully, I live with joy and satisfaction on levels I have never experienced. (I still have my moments, and hours, but its been such a dramatic turn around, I am grateful and patient with this process.)
> > >
> > > Most doctors miss the boat becuase they are treating the symptoms...that's what the allopathic model of medicine is all about. Treat the symptoms. Even if you branch out and head down the windy and trecherous road of "alternative medicine" you'll still find the allopathic model in place. Instead of treating the patient with remeron or zyprexa, you get practicioners using vitamin A and zinc. Same approach as western medicine, just disguised under the cloak of "natural" means.
> > >
> > > But hold on. There is no magic bullet cure to depression or anxiety or psychosis FOR EVERYONE. When you here about drug companies and research pipelines and genetic engineering, stand back, becuase this whole model of treating depression is focused on finding the magic bullet, the missing gene, ect.
> > >
> > > But there is a growing idea that latent within ourselves is our own capacity to heal, our capaity for wellness.
> > >
> > > A better way to go after mental well-being is to asume that mental health is a sympton, a reflection of an overall health problem, an imbalance. OK, so far. Now, how do you create health? Is health the abscence of disease, or sickness? Not really.
> > >
> > > Health is vibrancy, vitality, strength. Vibrant health and sickness or disease, are mutaully exclusive.
> > >
> > > Look around. There are a lot of people in the world today who lack robust health. Most poeple, I would argue, have never even experience great health.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, most western doctors are not very good at creating health. Doctors are trainned in fighting disease. They focus on the diagnosis.
> > >
> > > If you focus on building health from the ground up, now your starting to go in right direction. True, psychotropic medicine can be usefull at certain times. When you are in such bad states of poor health, chronic disease, mental trauma, ect...medicine can be our life lines. In this light, pscyhotropic meds have there place. Better to take the drugs short term than kill yourself, ect. These drugs can be life savers! Doctors can play an invaluble service in keeping us from going over the edge, from breaking. And to this end, we own doctors a debt of gratitude.
> > >
> > > So, in a perfect world, you come in, see the doctor becuause the anxiety is really is becomming debilitating. He gives you some medication. It helps. Now you go out and figure a way out to create health, as no drug can do that.
> > >
> > > Next question. How do you recapture your own innate power to heal?
> > >
> > > I had been searching for this answer for years. After thousands of hours of research, hundreds and hundreds of books and studies and doctors, I too was very perplexed by all the confusion out there. The local Barnes and Noble is filled with hundreds of books on creating wellness...each of them purporting a different route to health.
> > >
> > > The dilemma with most of the books or diets out there is that they fail to recognize the uniquness of each person.
> > >
> > > All I can say Anna Laura is that today, I am living a miracle. Reserve your skeptisim until you finish reading the book "The Metabolic Typing Diet." It will explain the beneifits AND limits to medicine, it will explain the confusion of why there are countless contradictions all across medicine and alternative medicine in studying the efficacy of drugs, herbs, vitamins, ect.
> > >
> > > Thr truth is the studies don't lie. For every study that shows how calcium can help osteoperosis, there is another study that shows opposite results...why?
> > >
> > > Biochmical individuality. You are unique. We all are. Each of us brings to the table our own biochemical "fingerprint." The pdoc Martin Jensen knew this. He could see this. That's why he didn't wory about the diagnosis. He just tried everything!
> > >
> > > Now, the science of Metabolic Typing is about learning about your own unique fingerprint. It's coming to understand the messsages our bodies are contstantly giving us as to the state of our system. Learning to decipher these clues is the next step in learning how to feed our bodies and minds what they need.
> > >
> > > Understand that food and nutrients and herbs can have profound efffects on the human body and mind. Most traditonal medicne from around the world understands this. Long before we had prozac, we used food and plants to heal.
> > >
> > > It is very important to understand that most traditonal medicine recognizes that you treat the person, not the symptom. You may suffer anxiety. I may suffer anxiety. But the remedy to alleviate your pain may be different than mine.
> > >
> > > Your mental health is unique to you! You might experience depression, so might I. But your depression could be more of a tired apathetic, listless experience. I might be more agitated, worried, have racing thought. When you begin to see how our bodies are designed, you'll begin to understand that what is happening in our brains is not becuase of a bad brain, just an imbalance.
> > >
> > > For example. The sympathetic nervous system is responsible for movement. It is considered the fight or flight branch of our nervous system. The sypathetic nervous system afords us the capity for quick thinking, action, good memory, lightness, sharpness, ect. But an over stimulated sypathetic nervous system creates excessive thoughts, anxiety, too much thinking, innability to relax, ect.
> > >
> > > The next step is learning to identify that our bodies have certain innate tendencies for imbalance. My body might might tend to be more parasysmpathetic dominant whereas your body might tend to have more sympathetic tendancies, ect.
> > >
> > > Once we begin to understand oursleves, identify our metabolic patterns, we can begin the process, with food, in correcting these imbalances!
> > >
> > > There is a lot more to metabolic typing than just this. Specifially, the diet address aspects of the nervous system, carbo and lipo oxidative rates, catabolic/anabolic balance, prostaglandins, endocrine dominance, dosha typing from Ayerveda, ect.
> > >
> > > Its powerful stuff.
> > >
> > > Anna Laura, our bodies are designed for wellness.
> > >
> > > IF you do not want to buy the book, check out the wonderful web site "Healthexcel.com" You will begin to undstand the ideas behind metabolic typing...it can change your life. It has mine.
> > >
> > > Bottom line. See for yourself. If doctors or others want to tell you how it is, let them. You decide who and what to believe.
> > >
> > > Keep going.
> > >
> > > And thank you for listening.
> > >
> > > Jason Lohr
> >
> > Jason,
> >Miragee, it was very kind of you posting this mail. I really needed that, thanks.
Anna Laura
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