Posted by bleauberry on June 20, 2015, at 14:54:11
One word.
Toxins.
My 25 year journey through the hell called depression taught me that 90% or greater of the psychiatric symptoms are directly caused by toxins in the body with affinity for brain receptors.
There is a new book on the market called Tox-Sick. I saw the reviews of it and it looks spot on to me. The author surprised me by listing off a grocery list of psychiatric syndromes and diseases that mostly clear up when the goal becomes "clean". They are all the same complicated multi-faceted issues we all suffer. All of them. Actually I shouldn't have been surprised, because I already knew that, but to hear it go public from someone else's research, was confirming. Nobody here has some strange mysterious invisible mental thing that meds just can't seem to treat very well. What they do have, is a body full of toxins from somewhere in their environment and or food and or infection. All the same stuff underlying our problems.
Who are our enemies messing with our brains, and moods? Sugars. Molds, fungus, from our homes and foods...explosive growth with American sugar consumption....that's the true enemy right there...sugar....get rid of that....and your depression is likely gone a year from now, without meds. Molds, sugars. Plastics are suspect but no proof. We have seen hints with BPA free and such. Gluten...was good in Bible days, messed with in Frankenstein fashion by modern day lab workers. Same with anything "genetically modified". Non-GMO is normal, natural, and good. GMO is unnatural, not normal, harmful in quantity or accumulation (as in death with corn farmers who ate it as their primary food....south america....serious illnesses and deaths....from common GMO corn because fake is cheaper than natural.) Government says these are safe, whatever that means, no details there, but they also said....welll....you know....enough fibs to write a book 10 feet tall.
One need not get dramatic and do a ton of stuff all at once. That will probably fail. Take it in pieces. Any and all forward progress in terms of "cleaning up" will prove helpful down the road. Sudden progress is usually not evident...it took years and years for disease to set in....it will take a least months to push it back.
I used to push the whole idea of Lyme Disease causing every psychiatric condition, and that is still deadly true. The problem is it cannot be accurately diagnosed with objective measures, so it has to be treated by reasonable suspicion and long term. Entire books are devoted to that topic alone. They saved me, strong pushback against all of my psych symptoms, remission or near remission is more common than not now.
I mentioned the Lyme in this topic of toxins in psychiatry, simply because that's basically what Lyme is....a body full of toxins....from normal routine activities of the bacteria.
So we need to study online not to become experts on psychiatric medications and mechanisms of neurotransmitters, but rather, mold in homes and how to reduce. Gluten. Non-GMO. Heavy metal exposure. Stealth infections....Lyme and Candida. Pesticides. Herbicides. Chemical cleaners.
I am confident that for whoever shifts the whole mindset to "toxins in the brain", gets better from here.
Disclaimer: True healing....not symptomatic cover-up...takes time. My case was especially bad, unusually bad, and took 3 years of anti-Lyme anti-toxin efforts to see what I was sure I would never ever see.....remission with no meds at all.
Check out toxin books, read up on google, just get familiar with it. I am here to say, your future is there, not in the next med or the next cocktail.
Final sidenote, no surprise, the explosive growth of cancers, diabetes, and dozens of mystery diseases....the same underlying issues....toxins messing with the works.
IMO
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