Posted by LostBoyinNCBecksDark on October 11, 2007, at 18:49:37
In reply to You people are suckers, posted by LostBoyinNCBecksDark on October 11, 2007, at 2:22:01
My sleep doctor, a pulmonary doc, told me "he had seen so many of his patients get treated for sleep apnea with CPAP, they start getting some deep restorative sleep for the first time in years and their depression evaporates."
Another sleep doc I have consulted with who is a psychiatrist and also does ECT, told me "he had seen many people with just mild obstructive sleep apnea dramatically improve after they were treated with CPAP." This was an ECT psychiatrist mind you, not some psychopharmacology guy.
There is other stuff out there besides psychopharmacology. Something MAY BE WRONG WITH YOU that you and your Pdoc dont know about. And your other regular doctors may have stopped bothering with you and written you off as a headcase and decided to let the shrinks handle you with drugs. You need to develop the ability to see through all this crap and take matters into your own hands.
Sleep medicine is a developing specialty of medicine that IMO, will be heavily competing with psychiatry in the future. And man, I am glad of that because STAR*D and other stuff is showing that few psychiatry patients experience remission despite taking their prescribed meds. I already knew what STAR*D concluded...I had known it for years. So had many many other mental patients...a lot of people go thru the med merry go round for years and suddenly realize, "man this psychiatry stuff is a bunch of crap." Its a big lie.
If its really a brain problem, why arent Neurologists treating severe mental illness? They should be. psychiatry wont fix you...
Think independently.
End of rant.
Eric
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