Posted by Hombre on June 21, 2010, at 22:34:42
In reply to Thought I Would Share a Success Story, posted by bleauberry on June 21, 2010, at 20:15:03
Most interesting.
Perhaps a worthwhile project would be to put together a super-algorithm of all potential treatments and the order in which they should be considered. I think people would respect and more thoroughly investigate things like nutrition and exercise if they were properly ranked against other treatment options. It might also give hope if medications were giving only partial or side-effect ridden results. Perhaps the algorithm would require several parallel paths given the number of variables.
Organizing all the various conventional and alternative treatments into a comprehensive plan of action is probably near-impossible when one is in the throes of depression and cognitive dysfunction. It tends to be easier to focus (or even obsess) on one type of treatment e.g. medication because you can use that particular paradigms measures to figure things out e.g. use PubMed to read the results of studies.
I used to be sort of hippy-dippy and did lots of meditation. I was all for alternative medicine. Then I studied physiology and after several years of taking on this sort of thinking I really didn't believe in what I had done despite the concrete results I'd achieved (I are dumb). Only later was I able to to compartmentalize my thinking so that I did not feel like I was betraying my left-brain, so to speak, by believing in things that are basically not conducive to scientific research.
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