jezebel69 has very kindly shared this website with us: thyromind.info/
I decided to put it in a separate post so it doesn't get missed. It contains very useful information about the impact of thyroid disorders on mental health. The only problem I have with it is that it lists thyroxine as the only treatment for hypothyroidism and it doesn't mention that thyroid patients in the UK are being treated according to out-dated NICE guidelines.
It's good to know that MIND, the mental health charity, has devoted a website to thyroid problems. I'm under the impression that the level of knowlege among people working in mental health in the UK is shockingly low.
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Thyroidea Norge (Thyroid Norway) is a newly formed organization for thyroid sufferers in Norway. Their aim is to educate the thyroid patient so they may have the tools necessary to have an informed dialog with their GP. They believe knowledge is power, and hope to have a position in which they educate the population in general. They also want to work towards an international co-operation as the problems we suffer with bad diagnostic tools, inferior research and inadequate treatment is world-wide. They want to work with lobbying towards politicians to improve patient rights in the Norwegian social security system and to promote more and better research in this area. They also hope to have a dialogue with endocrinologists and GPs so that they may work together towards improving the situation for thyroid sufferers.
Their slogan is 'We believe improvement is possible.'
I was gobsmacked by a recent article I read somewhere about what mental illnesses can arise from disease or lack of a single nutrient. The article author was clearly quite angry about psychiatry and how some people may be going through years of misery and completely inappropriate treatment when what they desperately need is to get a severe nutrient deficiency sorted out or an underlying disease like the thyroid. I mean it makes sense really, that brain function could go wrong when another part of your body is malfunctioning or you are lacking a key substance. I now realise I have possibly had a long time on and off being told I had Anxiety or Depression when in fact my thyroid has been on the blink. Yes I have had those things, but they are symptoms of an underlying physical problem not separate diseases in and of themselves.
But of course it would put psychiatrists out of a job if all the illnesses they treat were shown to have a physical cause at the root of them. Nobody wants to be told their field is not only irrelevant or, even worse, harmful! I worked in a particular academic social science field once but came in from another field. It was unbelievable how nobody wanted to listen to a scrap of theory from my field even though it was relevant to the subject at hand. It was like "that's nice but we've got our own theory and literature on this, thanks".
Yes, the idea that ntritional or hormonal deficiences cause mh problems make sense. It's bizarre that psychiatry, being biologically orientated, tends to ignore the most obvious causes.
I don't think it's just not wanting to end up without a job motivation. Psychiatrists lacks knowledge about nutrients, hormones, including the treatment of thyroid disorders.
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