Posted by Hello321 on April 18, 2016, at 19:10:28
In reply to Re: Helping those with mental health conditions » Hello321, posted by Tomatheus on April 18, 2016, at 15:01:47
Tomatgeus, thank you for taking the time to write all that. I thought you madeca lot of good points. I don't think of myself as against someone seeking psychiatric meds. We should have all the options we can get. This, as you've suggested is where today's tt payment of mental health conditions comes up short. For the most part, only one side of the treatment story is told. If they were really in the business of helping, they'd do much more than briefly mention something like Fish Oil being good good for brain function.
And I do believe there is much more understanding of what kind of lifestyles can be detrimental for brain and body function than is made known. We know the basics, caffeine can cause anxiety. Drinking too much alcohol can cause depression. Debatable, but still. Smoking is just bad for everything. And so on... But I've really bought into the information written about in the books I mentioned in earlier posts, Grain Brain and Brain Maker. Yet the US Government tells us most of our calories should be coming from grains. And, if i remember correctly, they subsidize the grain industry. Eating vegetables like brocvoli and carrots would be much healthier sources of nutrients than bread. Mostly because bread, even whole grains, just convert to sugar during digestion. Some grains turn into sugar more slowly, but the they still spike blood sugar. This is unhealthy for the body, as well as the brain.
I feel as long as there continues to be a top down approach with treating mental illness, we won't get any further than ever gotten. I believe that at best, the chemicals that are used only treat the end result of much deeper problems in our brains and bodies. But this is the way it has been for over half a century. And there doesn't seem to be an end in sight.
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