Posted by Escapee on March 11, 2015, at 8:52:33
In reply to Re: Get Real!, posted by Phillipa on March 7, 2015, at 19:18:53
> Can psych meds heal or make better MS, Cancer, Heart Disease, other illnesses that are not psychological but health problem. Diseases of the body?
The brain is a physical organ. Without it NOTHING would work. Receives messages from the senses and uses them to make the next appropriate movement or other bodily functions. Hayfever is a classic example. Pollen gets in the blood and the brain responds by sending a message back to your mucus glands (?) too make them produce (as most call it) snot to clear the nose of pollen.
Cancer? Many have claimed that meditation and certan 'visualising' techniques plays a big part in the healing process too. Same with psoriasis sufferers, an autoimmune illness (I do not like using the word 'disease'). I think most would agree that a cancer patient with a positive attitude would stand far more chance of recovery than a pessimistic or depressed patient.
Personally I have type 1 diabetes. Stress almost always alters my blood glucose levels. To me, the thought of the brain-mind being seperate from the physical body is ludicrous.
Finally amitryptyline, a common TCA also works for, among other physical manifestations helps many types of pain, headaches, diabetic neuropathy and even bed wetting in children.
Escapee.
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