Posted by bleauberry on June 13, 2013, at 5:17:19
I just wanted to encourage everyone, hang in there, be smart, be creative, and you can beat it. On the flip side, I can almost assure you that if your primary means of treating your symptoms is coming from a psychiatrist, the odds of getting better are slim.
What I have discovered in my journeys over 20 years dealing with severe depression and pretty much all the psychiatric symptoms, is that the primary places to be looking for improvement are in these areas....wide spectrum antimicrobial attack, toxin removal, and food choices at the grocery store.
Various herbs, rotating around, can handle most of the antimicrobial thing. In longstanding known infections such as my chronic Lyme, prescription antibiotics may be needed. In this topic we are talking months or years, not days or weeks.
Toxin removal is excellent with the prescription powder Cholestyramine mixed in water or juice. It attracts and binds any fat soluble toxins and covers a whole wide range of possible problems.
Anti-inflammation is important, Advil at a minimum, but herbs better.
Gluten, GMO corn....bye bye. Load up on lean proteins, veggies and fruits. Junk food allowed only one day per week.
Psych drugs, in my experience, are sometimes helpful for immediate symptoms, sometimes not, but counting on them for remission is setting oneself up for failure and disappointment.
Anyway, 20 years of all the psych meds except Nardil, 12 specialists many were pdocs, and $35,000 later, and a ton of suffering later, I am probably 70% improved without any drugs.
The most interesting thing I discovered is that the symptoms of psychiatric nature were the ones to improve the most. Pain improved a lot too, but the overall weakness is still there. They say that is the last to go. Depression pretty much gone most of the time. When I do get it, it is mild and distant and short.
Just sayin. If you want to get better, I mean really really want to get better, open the eyes and curiosity beyond the pdocs prescription pad. He really can't do much for you other than an organized guessing game with outcomes that are generally not all that great.
Sure, we do see amazing success stories once in a great while from someone on a magic psych drug, but that's about the same thing as expecting to win at the Las Vegas table....might happen, but not likely.
Weird, I never would have thought, but now that I can look back and reflect on it all, I believe the most useful drugs are the MAOIs, antipsychotics, ritalin, and vicadin. All of the reuptake inhibitors....not cool, long story....but in that arena the only thing that should be considered are strategies that involve reuptake of both NE and 5ht in fairly equal proportions. That rules out monotherapy with any ssri, rules out effexor, rules out cymbalta.
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