Severe mental health issues

[puddlediver]

Hi everyone, I’m new to this app so bear with me.

Last year was really bad for me. A couple of hospital stays under section.

Am getting better slowly and the meds’ have worked.

Glad to find you guys.

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Hello puddlediver nice to meet you and welcome to the site. I am sorry to hear you are going through such a bad time at the moment.

Whilst you are waiting for replies can I ask you to please familiarise yourself with the terms and conditions which you will find in the pinned posts. Thank you. Lil x

[puddlediver in reply to Hidden]

Thanks for your reply and welcome, have checked out the rules. Lyv

[marigold22 in reply to puddlediver]

Hi again, I'm on both the Mental Health and the Thyroid sections. Just been trying to update my profile (but seems to be a technical glitch), as I'm recovered after 35+ years of being in a hellish place. It's Hashimoto's Thyroiditis, and along the way was an in-patient once in psychiatric unit and an out-patient once. I felt totally insane, but it was in fact a physical illness. 2017 has been a magical year as I paid for two blood tests privately (well, one was actually saliva), and they both showed up things I had no idea about and which even Professors didn't bother with. Now since August 2017 I've changed my diet since consulting with a homeopath. He told me to ditch ALL carbohydrates, saying that grains are a form of grass, we aren't cows and have difficulty digesting it. (cows have 3 stomachs to digest it )

He also told me to ditch as much sugar as possible, keeping in mind that fruit contains a lot of sugar. But also to eat a lot of 'good fats'.

Recommended to eat - full fat milk, cream, real butter, olive oil, cheese, cream cheese, eggs, meat including bacon (not sausages), oily fish (tinned mackerel is my favourite), white fish, plain bio yoghurt, all vegetables (I make veg soup with a blender), all salad items, avocados, nuts (not salted or roasted), beans (I buy tins of mixed beans & baked beans from supermarket & drain off liquid), tinned prunes (delicious with cream!). There are other foods that are ok – eg pulses, sauerkraut (which I’ve googled how to make & about to try making it), Hellmans mayonnaise, Bovril, cocoa powder in warm milk, Lindt high cocoa chocolate slab, Not meant to eat potatoes as they are high carb (I have a little).

I have now been on this 'special way of eating' since late August and can honestly say that my life has turned around --- my brain is working fantastically, I'm happy, fulfilled, can multi task. Up until I changed my diet I was still getting suicidal periods, agoraphobia, anxiety, deep depressions. I could probably come off my sertraline now and will do it very slowly. Hope you have a great time in India

[marigold22 in reply to marigold22]

P S I have read that our brains are made of 80% fat, so need good fats to function properly. All that advice we were getting about eating a low fat diet, or we will collapse with heart disease was no doubt a load of tosh !