Posted by bleauberry on September 6, 2018, at 6:05:24
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
The point I mean to get across is that the vast majority of people who suffer from Lyme disease or other mystery chronic infections (there are at least 6 different bacteria and several viruses that come from ticks, not just the lyme bacteria, and they are all bad, all look similar in symptoms, all can be picked up in other ways besides ticks, and our medical community generally speaking totally ignores this angle of disease causation).
Practically everyone I've known or heard of who was dealing with lyme or any of its co-infections (often worse than lyme itself) deals with psychiatric symptoms that don't respond well to mainstream medicines, and displays patterns of agitation and rage during flare-ups or die-offs or continuously. It's just a common thing. That's why in your case I think it makes total sense to highlight it and look at it.
You could get a book called "Why Can't I Get Better" by Horowitz. You can also roam the web and read anything you can find by Marty Ross MD and Bill Rawls MD. Both of these guys are Lyme experts but I don't want you to read their stuff for lyme. I want to you read their stuff to see in detail how all these other things we ignore or don't consider tie directly to brain performance and the mood center. It's way too much to explain here and I would not do a good job of it.
At the very least, when mainstream conventional treatments are disappointing, that all by itself is a pretty strong clue you're barking up the wrong tree, it's something else.
Example - any of these mystery infections can load the body full of toxins. These toxins have affinity for our opioid receptors. So they crowd out our own natural opioids. They contaminate serotonin molecules. So you don't get pure serotonin. They clog receptors. They cause inflammation and havoc. None of this is good for your mood and all of it is cause for rage. The entire balance of how neurotransmitters are formed from nutrition and how they operate are dramatically stunted and impacted by toxins of stealth unsuspected chronic low-mid level infections.
When you first hear someone talk the way I am talking it can be shocking to discover there is a whole world of healing that nobody told you a bout. But when you aren't getting better doing whatever you are doing, then you have to open the eyes wider.
What I am saying is that your rage is not a psychological thing. It's not a thing a counselor can talk to you about and solve it. It's a physical thing that has nothing to do with your thoughts or emotions. It's like a poisoning. It is actually a poisoning. That's what toxins do.
Whether you want to learn about lyme or not doesn't matter - those 3 authors will demonstrate how everything else going on in your body is what is impacting your brain. It isn't your brain that is the problem. Their writings will help you to discover how to fill in the gaps and mysteries in your own health situation. You will be able to figure things out that your doctors cannot figure out. That's because these authors are way, way better doctors than most of us ever get to see.
> 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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