Needing help

[Needing]

Lately I've been feeling super depressed, I'm on antidepressants yet I don't feel like I can get through the day. I quit my job, I just want to sleep all day... I need help

[ThatgirlJay]

How long have you been on antidepressant ?

[Needing in reply to ThatgirlJay]

2 years

[ThatgirlJay in reply to Needing]

Have you tried changing to something else ? Have you ever done therapy ? Is there anything new in your life that has you down ?

[Needing in reply to ThatgirlJay]

Haven't changed meds.. currently don't have health insurance. My husband just got out of the marines and we moved back home. Away from all the friends I had made and my safe place at the beach. I've done therapy just nothing helps.. feeling hopeless

[SlappyPappyWehWeh]

Hi Needing, if you can remind yourself and think of your current feeling like a bunch of dark clouds forming over your head, you know that they will eventually leave, that may help. No lie. I have started to think of my depression as like a weather pattern. Yes, It will get rainy..but it will eventually be sunny. Wait for the storm to pass and maybe think of it like that. I find it gives me some hope. Let me know what you think!

[Eddie83]

Of course ADs don't help. Almost all of them are chemicals which are foreign to your biochemistry. Wanting to sleep a lot is what is typically heard from thyroid patients. To regain health over the long-term, you need to move away from the allopathic approach, to a naturopathic approach. Here is what I mean:

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I realize it is very difficult to think long-term when you do not feel well,

but I am going to ask you to do just that. I am going to ask you to think

beyond the treatment which you might be receiving from a conventional M.D.

(which may well involve treatment with drugs like anti-depressants,

benzodiazepenes, anti-psychotics, mood stabilizers), to the Big Picture.

Like you, I at one time had very severe depression and anxiety, and at one

point had a terrifying panic attack. The eventual solution to my mental-health

problems did not come from an MD; in fact, MDs were more of a problem than a

solution. The solution to my problem took about 21 years to realize, but

things don't have to take that long; they only take that long when the patient

has to find the solution themselves.

I will ask you to recognize some basic principles:

1) Do not believe MDs, other than the renegades. Those renegades include

people like David Perlmutter, Mark Hyman, Kent Holtorf.

2) There are a few Naturopaths, Pharmacists, and other 'alternative' healthcare

types who know what they are doing. People like Izabella Wentz and Tom

O'Bryan, whom you will find on Youtube.

3) Mental health problems like depression, anxiety, and panic attack, can

be caused by toxic foods in combination with nutritional deficiencies. When

toxins cause endocrine collapse, that collapse can lead to the classic

symptoms of depression and anxiety. Do not automatically assume that you

have "genetic problems", even if your parents had similar problems.

4) Most American corporations are out to make your food so cheaply, that

you cannot maintain your health on it.

5) Many Americans are deficient in basic nutritional substances. A doctor

who tells you nutritional substances are a waste of your time, is probably

a quack, esp. if the doctor isn't willing to test you for deficiencies.

6) American fossil-fuel and chemical corporations are out to terminate the

planet.

7) Cheap refined carbs (and esp. gluten) are some of the most dangerous foods

you can use.

8) Only a small number of US MDs understand that most Big Pharma drugs don't

work because they are foreign to human body chemistry.

9) Few US MDs know how to do hormone therapy properly. This is esp.

true for patients whose Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Adrenal-Thyroid axis is

collapsing from bad food and chemical pollution.

10) The only food you can trust is what you raise yourself, which is not

possible for most people.

11) A substantial proportion of Americans would rather go to their grave,

than a gym. While you are trying to find a solution to your mental-health

problems, vigorous exercise will give you a respite from feeling like hell.

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What happened in my specific case illustrates the above pointers. I had

gluten intolerance when I was born (and I later realized it came from my

mother’s side of the family, given my mother’s health history). When I

was a teenager, and into my late 30s, I had fleeting symptoms indicating

ongoing destruction, yet no MD knew what they meant. During this period,

gluten (along with a few other foods, and growing up in a very polluted

environment) was launching Hashimoto’s autoimmunity that reduced my thyroid

function, and degrading my gut (gluten enteropathy) such that I was not

absorbing nutrients, and especially amino acids from protein foods. This

resulted in a deteriorating mental state in my early 40s, followed by a

terrifying anxiety/panic/depressive attack at age 45. It took an astounding

12 years to find out that gluten is my kryptonite, and I had to go to a

Naturopath for that diagnosis. After diagnosis, it took another 9 years

to reach a state where I really felt well; the final step was learning how

to bypass my damaged protein/amino acid metabolism, by using free amino

acids. The key takeaways from this long period of illness are: you cannot

have good mental function when you have hypo function of your thyroid and

adrenals; you cannot have good mental function when you have hypoproteinemia;

and treatment with BigPharma drugs like anti-depressants, mood stabilizers,

and anti-psychotics will NEVER make you feel well.