I'm going to come clean with all of you about some truths I have recently learned.
I started taking pre and pro biotics years ago for my IBS. I studied and believed in them and they worked for years. Then they stopped.
My Niece studied gluten and it's effect on anxiety and other symptoms she was experiencing. She believed it enough to change her diet drastically, and it worked, for about a year, then stopped. When probiotics failed me, I tried lactose tablets, they worked for about a year and suddenly stopped working.
MSG is a naturally occurring constituent of many vegetables. The FDA says if you add MSG to your food it is unlikely that you would increase your intake of it by more than like 10%.
Yet I know people who have had terrible migraine headaches, even anaphalactic symptoms when exposed to MSG. Many of us are familiar with RSO, or Rick Simpson Oil, Rick cured his Cancer by taking in vast amounts of concentrated marijuana.
I believe that many of these things are the result of Placebo effect. We used to think the rate of Placebo effect was around 17%, More recently it has been shown to be active in over 70%of certain studies.
One more thing. If you watch a baby learning to walk, you will see them take a tenuous step, fall on their butts, get up and do it again. Over and over no matter how much they fall.
They don't think " I'm not good at this, or something must be wrong with me" or anything else, they just keep trying until they get it right.
I decided to use this information to my advantage. I quit smoking 8 years ago and never looked back. Narcotics a couple years ago, Xanax, Ativan, and Adderall all a little over a year ago and now Pot 5 weeks ago. I never suffered during withdrawal, but I did self taper the benzodiazapines because of the potential for seizures.
Currently I am working on my anger.
You can too, but first you need to believe you can do it.
If you believe in God or anything else you can use that for help and strength.
Sometimes it's hard to remain resolute in my belief and I call for back up.
You are my backup too, this anger thing is difficult.
I keep falling on my but, but I will not allow my mind to entertain thoughts of failure, or what's wrong with me, or why do I have this. Like the baby I just keep getting up, trying again, accepting setbacks for what they are, and not for a permanent failure.
I started small, by working on my balance, grew stronger and attacked bigger problems.
You can too!
Start with a little research, choose something small you want to change, pick a technique you can believe in.
Don't give up
Let me know how it goes.
If you think I'm crazy it's okay I used to think so too!