A person who is "mentally disturbed" will be found to have hidden underlying physical problems that prevent their recovery.
Broken bones, pinched nerves, and suppressed pain - all can affect the person's mental outlook. Modern advances in medicine and nutrition have revealed just how big an adverse effect on the mind can be exerted by nutritional and vitamin deficiencies, poor diet, allergies, food additives and chemical toxins in the fatty tissues of the body.
Physical discomforts, deficiencies and exhaustion have a detrimental effect on mood. The person is medically ill or injured, not "insane." He may have a disease but he does not, short of a tumour, have a diseased or malfunctioning brain, nor is he locked into a mental condition by the fickle pre-programming of his genes.
Fix the medical problem, allergy or nutritional deficiency and the person will experience a resurgence of spirit and morale in concert with his physical recovery.
The correct procedure on a seriously mentally disturbed person therefore is a thorough medical examination by a competent medical doctor to locate and repair the underlying but hitherto undiscovered physical illness.
The list of physical ailments that can bring about the complete range of mental problems such as depression, poor concentration, aggression, anxiety and even visual or auditory hallucinations and so forth is very extensive and includes commonplace things such as undiscovered broken bones, tooth abscesses, glandular disorders, liver disorders, vitmain and mineral deficiencies, even caffeine poisoning. Even senility has been linked to poor diet and Alzheimers aleviated by giving the patient the natural superfood known as blue-green algae.
Let me cite one, often cited example just to give you an idea: Lyme Disease.
Lyme Disease is the most common tick-borne disease in the Northern Hemisphere. It is transmitted to humans by the bite of infected ticks. Early manifestations of infection may include fever, headache, fatigue, depression, and a characteristic skin rash called erythema migrans. Left untreated, late manifestations involving the joints, heart, and nervous system can occur. In most cases, the infection and its symptoms are eliminated with antibiotics, especially if diagnosis and treatment occur early.
You will notice that two of the symptoms noted here are depression and fatigue. Imagine someone with the early stages if Lyme disease but does not know he has the disease. He feels worn out and depressed. He goes to his doctor or psychiatrist, describes his depression, is not given a thorough physical examination so the presence of the Lyme infection is missed.
The psychiatrist, without checking for any one of a long list of ailments that can cause a person to feel depressed, diagnoses "depression" and writes out a prescription for anti depressants. The physical cause is neglected so the illness gets worse. The psychotropic medication, supposed to treat a mental disorder that does not exist, causes physical and mental complications and the person gets worse.
Lyme Disease is, incidentally, often cited in arguemtns such as mine thanks to Dr. Paul Fink, a past president of the American Psychiatric Association. Dr Fink has admitted that every disorder in Psychiatry's Diagnostic Manual can be caused by Lyme Disease! Yet psychiatrists when diagnosing, normally do not check the spectrum of likely culprits and usually go straight for the "mental illness" diagnosis without proper examination and the stock solution of drug to "readjust" brain chemistry.
Here, briefly, are a few other likely culprits:
Adrenal problems
Herpes
Hypoglycemia
Insecticide Poisoning
Lead Poisoning
Pellagra (Vitamin B3-Niacin Deficiency)
Wheat-gluten Sensitivity
Drugs, whether illicit street drugs such as cocaine or prescribed psychotropic medication, will at best provide a person with temporary relief by disrupting the routine activities of the nervous system, endocrine system, glands, cells and so forth. They are essentially poisons.
The human body, however, will try to process the poison, and nullify its effect on the body.
Unfortunately it was not designed for coping with chronic disruption and like any abused machine will, quickly or slowly, break down. Tissue damage cand nerve damage can occur, the organs and glands stop functioning normally, hormonal systems go aout of kilter.
As the body begins to break down, bizarre things start to happen: exhaustion can set in, reduced sexual desire, shakes, nightmares, visual and auditory hallucinations, loss of concentration and memory, anxiety, fear, paranoia and psychosis.
In other words, the person deteriorates due to the psychaitric drugs while, unaddressed or even undetected, the original physical illness remains as well and often worsens.
As a solution or cure to life's problems, psychotropic drugs do not work. But proper medical treatment, detoxification of the body, antibiotics, setting broken bones, vitamins, nutrition, temperance and sufficient sleep and so forth all do.
The very LAST thing one should do when suffering some unwanted mental condition is take a psychiatric drug!
[Important warning: if you are already on some psychiatric medication do NOT just stop taking them without first seeking and following the guidance of a medical doctor.]
