Posted by bleauberry on September 21, 2018, at 10:42:38
In reply to Re: not quite sure what to make of your post » bleauberry, posted by cadburyhesychasm on September 4, 2018, at 21:28:06
If you are attempting to treat it with physical chemicals then you are acknowledging it is a biological thing. If it wasn't a biological thing, you would be with a psychologist or counselor instead. But you aren't. You are treating it as if it is something in the body.
I suffered as much or more than anybody here for 20 solid years and that included attempted suicide and failed E.C.T. Now, when you get to the 20 year mark, and you aren't a whole lot better than you were 20 years earlier, then you have to acknowledge you are on the wrong path. You got it wrong. I did that. I got it wrong.
It is my opinion that most patients here have also gotten it wrong, and that that is the very reason they are still sick and why they have come here to find comfort and ideas.
Some people make fun of the Lyme angle, believing it is hogwash, without any evidence or experience on their part. Or more accurately, they make fun of me for saying it. They just feel that way in the gut so they believe and they say it. What people don't understand - it's probably my fault for not articulating well - is that what I am actually saying is that your symptoms are not coming from low serotonin or whatever neurotransmitter nonsense, they are coming from one of these 4 variables which are impacting the integrity of those neurotransmitters and how they function.
1. Inflammation - brain or systemic - many causes - not just injury - toxins - plastics - aluminum - amalgams - mercury - lead - cadmium - fluoride - gluten - genetic modifications to food - wrong foods - excess sugar - petroleum products - chronic infection - and more.
2. Toxins - also mentioned above. Our genes and diet determine whether we excrete trace toxins or whether we accumulate and store them. Not at all friendly to serotonin or dopamine.
3. Chronic infection - Lyme, HIV, various viruses, various bacteria, various fungi. Testing is generally poor for most stealth unsuspected infections, such as Lyme, which is epidemic. Symptoms come on so slowly and gradually over time that you never put 2+2 together and figure it out.
4. Immune system dysfunction - either too hot, too cold, or confused as in autoimmune. Everything in the body is attached to the performance of the immune system. If it isn't working right, neither is the brain, neither are the neurotransmitters.
It just so happens that the word Lyme covers all of that. So I use the term a lot. But it doesn't have to necessarily be from a tick bite that you get the inflammation, the infection, the toxins, the bad diet. In my experience, there is no greater source than ticks for all of those problems. I know that for a fact. Whether anyone else wants to embrace that or not is not my concern. But I feel it is each of our duty's to contribute what we've got and share what we know.
> Dear bleauberry, one thing you mentioned is that my out of character extreme rage attacks is a big "clue". In what way would a biological cause differ in quality of rage or any associated symptoms with dep compared to psychiatric diseases? so what info can I use to be sure that a biological cause is a more appropriate thing to target? any thing i can read about on the net and not just articles but proper arriving at differential diagnosis and best practices of treating such a thing???? because i don't have the capacity yet to go find a specific lyme or toxoplasmosis specialist here if there is such a practicioner.
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