Posted by bleauberry on March 9, 2013, at 9:08:34
In reply to Re: Short and Sweet + some more, posted by CamW on March 9, 2013, at 0:40:07
I totally agree with CamW's comments. I believe the trap most of us fall into, is we are basically led to believe that meds can cure us of our psychiatric symptoms.
Sometimes they do. Old Nardil, and Parnate, seem to be the only two that stand a real fighting chance of doing that. But I've seen people in remission on 10 years of zoloft or prozac. It happens. Rare. Jackpots in Las Vegas happen too. But rare.
Meds in my opinion are best used to help minimize symptoms, and on a temporary basis....not open-ended forever....in order to buy us some time to address other issues so we can get our symptoms fixed that we don't need symptomatic assistance anymore, or that if we do, it is minimal.
What most of us do wrong, including myself for 15 years, is we put 100% of our bets on the psychiatric gambling table, and totally completely ignore the other tables around us, most of which are producing a lot more jackpots than the psychiatric one is.
God did not say He gave us pharmacies for medicines. He said he created the plants for us to use as medicines.
I was just studying an article on Bartonella (common infection people don't know they have, from dust mites, ticks, cats) and was astounded that rather than using the plants the scientists have already identified as being clinically effective, they instead want to isolate the active natural compounds in it, so they can synthetically duplicate them, get a patent, and make money. In the meantime, you don't know about those plants!
Bartonella symptoms include panic, anxiety, and treatment resistant depression. Sometimes the infection symptoms are only psychiatric, with none of the other more commonly expected symptoms. How do we know? Because they got better on bartonella herbs or ABX. But they did not get much better on anything else.
Anyway...
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