IMA psychiatrist Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring discusses why mental health care needs a rethink—and how non-drug approaches, lifestyle, and informed consent can fix it.
I'm with you on the differing approach to mental health! I have used alternative medicine for 40 years - it is simple, and effective! I have a friend that has acid reflux and when I approached her with verified help using Aloe Vera juice and Slippery Elm, she said 'I'll just wait and see what this new medication from the Dr does" Four years later, she is still on the medication and STILL has acid reflux! When I looked her medication up on the internet, one of the side effects of this stuff can promote Dementia, and guess what? She is now far down that road AND has signed up for the MAID program effective when her Dr says she is below the 23% point of cognativity. I have such a hard time understanding this - why most people don't investigate and figure out the root causes of problems in their bodies, then go after it with a method which really won't cause them harm. It is often as easy as a 'green food' supplement .... Where I live it is not only a 15 minute appointment with the Dr. it is also ONE question/problem allowed - AND. if you have blood work done you need to make another appt. to find out the results! That can take up to 8 weeks.
However there is an aspect of illness, common to all diagnoses, which is virtually never considered, investigated for or even mentioned, in scientific papers: I am talking about hormonal imbalance, sometimes "natural", due to aging and slow discontinuation of hormone production, sometimes as a result of illness and most often as a consequence of stress-related hypercortisolemia.
This problem has a bearing on the matter of psychiatric assessment, investigation, diagnosis and therapy - I will elaborate, in a new post, entitled "Diagnosis and Management of Conditions Contributing to Psychological Aberration", to the "Aging and your hormones" substack.
The post will appear tonight, or tomorrow at the latest.
I'm with you on the differing approach to mental health! I have used alternative medicine for 40 years - it is simple, and effective! I have a friend that has acid reflux and when I approached her with verified help using Aloe Vera juice and Slippery Elm, she said 'I'll just wait and see what this new medication from the Dr does" Four years later, she is still on the medication and STILL has acid reflux! When I looked her medication up on the internet, one of the side effects of this stuff can promote Dementia, and guess what? She is now far down that road AND has signed up for the MAID program effective when her Dr says she is below the 23% point of cognativity. I have such a hard time understanding this - why most people don't investigate and figure out the root causes of problems in their bodies, then go after it with a method which really won't cause them harm. It is often as easy as a 'green food' supplement .... Where I live it is not only a 15 minute appointment with the Dr. it is also ONE question/problem allowed - AND. if you have blood work done you need to make another appt. to find out the results! That can take up to 8 weeks.
Well said.
However there is an aspect of illness, common to all diagnoses, which is virtually never considered, investigated for or even mentioned, in scientific papers: I am talking about hormonal imbalance, sometimes "natural", due to aging and slow discontinuation of hormone production, sometimes as a result of illness and most often as a consequence of stress-related hypercortisolemia.
This problem has a bearing on the matter of psychiatric assessment, investigation, diagnosis and therapy - I will elaborate, in a new post, entitled "Diagnosis and Management of Conditions Contributing to Psychological Aberration", to the "Aging and your hormones" substack.
The post will appear tonight, or tomorrow at the latest.