Posted by bleauberry on August 21, 2013, at 16:54:10
In reply to screw the shrinks, posted by Christ_empowered on August 21, 2013, at 9:52:06
Well, maybe some might view this post as negative or harsh or untrue, but actually it looks pretty accurate I think.
I don't think there is any conspiracy or anything. It's just that mankind tries to do the best they can with what they know, and that's what pdocs do. The problem is more widespread, I think, in that the medical community as a whole sort of blocks out anything that does not fit their mold at the time, and their ability to be creative and experimental has been diminished by politics such as obamacare and other things too.
It is of my belief that if all pdocs were well versed on lyme and lyme-like issues as well as the llmds, then the pdocs would be able to effectively issue other drugs to patients that actually get them better. I mean, just because someone has a mood issue doesn't automatically or necessarily make it a neurotransmitter issue.
The greatest healing I have experienced from chronic long term major depression has come from non-psychiatric approaches. If the primary suspects of disease can be resisted or suppressed, which really isn't hard with a few well chosen supplements, symptoms of just about any disease will stand a better chance of improving, and often that includes common stuff like depression, panic attacks, and anxiety. Since the herbs are so wide spectrum in multiple mechanisms, a wide variety of diseases and symptoms are improved, sometimes dramatically, at least as dramatically as antidepressant responses, but probably more.
I think pdocs might be good for acute emergency cases. But for medium to long term patients, I think they accidentally do more harm to the patient than good, simply by screening off from their own world anything that doesn't fit the mold. As in my case, pdocs not knowing a darn thing about how lyme disease causes the depression, or even how to recognize a potential infection.
sigh
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