Posted by bleauberry on May 3, 2009, at 17:42:53
In reply to Re: drug for motivation!, posted by SLS on May 2, 2009, at 17:17:56
This caught my attention. If someone fits the following criteria, they are considered clinically depressed and the next likely step is to treat a brain chemical imbalance of some mysterious sort.
What caught my attention was that if one were to look at common symtpoms of Lyme disease, or common symptoms of an unsuspected yeast/candida overgrowth, the symptoms look exactly the same as depression. And there are other things often missed in routine physicals and labs that can have the same appearance as depression, such as hypoadrenalism or suboptimal thyroid.
But primarily I was kind of taken aback by how eerily the symptoms of infectious organisms echo the symptoms of "clinical depression".
Practically everyone with undiagnosed unsuspected Lyme disease, or undiagnosed unsuspected yeast, has all of the symptoms listed below.
The problem I think is diagnosis. They make it real hard and real tricky. It need not be. For yeast, simple. Start Nystatin at a low dose and see what happens. If nothing, raise the dose. Still nothing, get to the normal target dose. Nothing, stop. You do not have yeast. Done deal.
On the other hand, if you started getting a lot worse somewhere along the way...the Herx reaction of organism toxins...you just made a diagnosis with a high level of confidence. Same with Lyme, except the test meds would be Tetracycline or Doxycycline.Anyway, depression looks like Lyme looks like yeast. Very deceptive illnesses these are.
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> I am depressed according to clinical diagnostics.
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> A. The person experiences a single major depressive episode:
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> 1. For a major depressive episode a person must have experienced at least five of the nine symptoms below for the same two weeks or more, for most of the time almost every day, and this is a change from his/her prior level of functioning. One of the symptoms must be either (a) depressed mood, or (b) loss of interest.
> 1. Depressed mood. For children and adolescents, this may be irritable mood.
> 2. A significantly reduced level of interest or pleasure in most or all activities.
> 3. A considerable loss or gain of weight (e.g., 5% or more change of weight in a month when not dieting). This may also be an increase or decrease in appetite. For children, they may not gain an expected amount of weight.
> 4. Difficulty falling or staying asleep (insomnia), or sleeping more than usual (hypersomnia).
> 5. Behavior that is agitated or slowed down. Others should be able to observe this.
> 6. Feeling fatigued, or diminished energy.
> 7. Thoughts of worthlessness or extreme guilt (not about being ill).
> 8. Ability to think, concentrate, or make decisions is reduced.
> 9. Frequent thoughts of death or suicide (with or without a specific plan), or attempt of suicide.
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> I am depressed, period. However, I am not melancholic. I don't dwell on negative thoughts. It is not "depressed mood" that has been my biggest problem.
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> Depression can present quite variably interindividually, and even intraindividually over time. Sadness and depressed mood are not necessary for one to be described as being depressed clinically. However, if depressed mood is not present, usually a lack of interest and motivation is. In addition, cognitive and memory impairments can be present.
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