I need to vent sorry. I am angry. I was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder Type 2 and Borderline Personality Disorder. My family and my therapist and my psychiatrist want me on Abilify or Lithium or Latuda or a combination. But I got a basic standard nutrion blood test from my doctor showing I'm dangerously low in B12 and Vitamin D. Everyone including my nutritionist and doctor blew that off like it was no big deal. I learned from my own research that micronutrient deficiencies can lead to mental illness because a lack of adequate nutritional intake can lead to the breakdown of the brain and body. Not enough energy or material to produce the right hormones and neurotransmitters to keep everything up and running. I feel like most doctors, psychiatrists, psychologist, dieticians, and nutritionists overlook the fact that commercialized agricultural soil depletion domestically and internationally has had a catastrophic affect on the mental health of billions of individuals worldwide as our food systems have become more global. I'm deeply offended that neither my primary care physician, my talk therapist, my psychiatrist, or my nutritionist give one flying f what my RBC Magnesium levels are, what my iodine levels are, what my B vitamin levels are, what my Vitamin D levels are, how complete my actual full essential amino acid profile looks like besides '"just eat more protein!", what my Omega 3 EPA and DHA levels are, etc. Why it isn't standard practice for every single patient with mental health issues who walks through the door of any mental health care professional's door to be required to get a detailed comprehensive blood test prior to treatment IS BEYOND ME. It absolutely blows my mind and appalls me that I can suffer from crippling mood swings for decades and then spend 15 minutes with a complete stranger in a nice office and have them scribble a prescription down on a notepad for me to take dangerous drug concoctions made in labs to make me "feel better" and they don't ask me anything other than if I smoke, drink, eat a "balanced" diet, and get enough sleep and exercise. No blood tested. I've had to beg, plead, and CONVINCE my primary care physician to "grant" me the "privilege" of an "unnecessary" nutrition blood panel and when I got my results back I asked where are all the other micronutrients listed? They are so stingy at the doctors office they only give the bare minimum to test because I'm not "dying on the spot". I found a service called Inside Tracker and I feel like my insurance should cover extensive blood testing like what they offer. But they don't. You have to pay $700 out of pocket to get all your biomarkers and insurance won't reimburse for a private company. This is abhorrent. I feel like if I were a nutritional psychiatrist I would include an Inside Tracker or an equivalent service detailed blood test with my initial patient intakes to establish their mental and physical health starting point baseline. Then I would prescribe my patients a combined meal plan and vitamin/supplement regiment that ACTUALLY ADDRESSES any underlying nutritional deficiencies they are having like low B12, low Vitamin D, inadequate amino acid profile, low RBC magnesium, low copper, low iodine, etc. It's bs to diagnose someone with low B12 as "depressed". They're not depressed they're deficient in a vital nutrient! That would be as asinine as diagnosing a hungry person with "Food Obsession Disorder" because they get hungry again every 4 hours after their body consumes and digests their last meal. That's not a disorder, That's normal! We SHOULD feel like crap if we haven't eaten in hours or days! If we didn't, we would die happy but emaciated!!! That's NOT how we adapted or evolved to survive as a species. So why WOULDN'T we feel moody and depressed with low B12 and low Vit and low Magnesium?! We SHOULD feel like dysregulated dysfunctional basket cases when we have micronutrient deficiencies!! For God's sake how ELSE would our brains and bodies let us know it needs more nutritional fuel!!!??? I feel like I'm talking to a WALL every time I mention ANYof this to ANYONE in my life. Like I get these days, glazed o er looks from people like they have absolutely no f*cking clue what I am talking about. I feel like I'm connecting dots not many other people can see. So I feel stuck right now because I've been guessing and checking with random vitamins trying to self advocate for my own health because I don't feel like my "care team" really "gets it". If I were a mental health professional I would insist that my patients get their blood retested EVERY 3 MONTHS to ensure we are getting their numbers in the OPTIMAL HEALTH ZONES as an OFFICIAL TREATMENT PLAN. Nobody takes meal planning and Vitamin supplements seriously except for aesthetics or after someone has a heart attack or cancer. Nobody looks at food and vitamins as a serious respectable treatment plan used in conjunction to frequent blood testing under the supervision and review of a trained and licensed mental health professional/nutritionist/dietician/psychiatrist. I was hospitalized for a drug induced manic episode years ago when I was prescribed Prozac and Adderall for a misdiagnosis of Depression and ADHD. They tested my blood at the hospital for medication levels and basic nutrition like sodium potassium cholesterol etc. Then they gave me crappy junky processed hospital food tray meals and shoved Depakote and Inderol down my throat and then patted me on the head, signed my evaluation papers, and sent me on my way after a week of TV watching, crayon drawing "art therapy", and group therapy. This is a travesty!!! This is our flawed and broken system. I'm upset that eating a balanced diet isnt enough, due to soil depletion. We aren't getting everything we need from our food. Nobody takes supplements seriously for treatment or prevention of certain physical or mental health issues. And I'm tired of getting dirty looks, quizzical facial expressions, and exasperated sighs from my primary care physician whenever I ask to get referrals retested for my nutrition blood panel every 3 months to see where my numbers are at. I'm tired of feeling like I'm just cobbling together a treatment plan nobody really believes in. Also I'm tired of guessing and checking with how much of each supplement to take. I should really just be able to find a nutritional psychiatrist coveted under my insurance who will help me track my data where we care my mood symptoms with my micronutrient levels on a graph over 3, 6,9,12 month periods. I should be able to visually see my numbers going up qnd down. Measurable data to do cross comparison with my mental illness symptoms. This seems so obvious to me. But yet it's like I might as well be speaking a foreign language to most people when I try and speak about this. I'm angry because I can't afford Inside Tracker or an equivalent and their way more superior detailed comprehensive analysis nutritional blood panels. And my insurance won't cover it. The reason I can't afford Inside Tracker's Ultimate plan bundle is because my mental illness is so severe I can barely hold down a steady job. With little to no income, I'm offered medication and talk therapy coveted by my insurance and if I'm compliant with medication then I can join an IIP or IOP care facility. But I already tried that route and it got me nowhere except drugged out with weird unpleasant or scary effects. I feel like if only I could upload my blood tests results into Inside tracker or something similar and found the correct supplements and foods that support my body's very specific needs for my gender, height, weight, genetic predispositions etc. then that would be as good or better than f*cking Abilify wtf. But too bad I'm broke and my care team don't give a sh*t about anything except trying to drug me instead of helping me course correct and address all my underlying nutritional deficiencies before even THINKING about incorporating a "medication". I understand there is a place for pharmaceutical drugs and thank goodness for things like antibiotics but holy eff it should NOT be the first line defense every single time someone walks into an office of a therapist and exclaims, "I'm tired, depressed, stressed, and angy." Medication should be the LAST thing tried AFTER RULING OUT micronutrient deficiencies. Just my very unprofessional but exasperated opinion as a "patient" for the last 31 years!
Impressionnant comme le monde médical récupère à son profit les concepts qu'il a combattu durant des décennies ! Un joli nom bien "scientifique" et le tour est joué ! De tous temps les hygiénistes et naturopathes se sont fait critiquer, ridiculiser et attaquer pour affirmer exactement ces principes de base. Au delà de l'aspect lamentable du procédé, l'avantage est qu'enfin un peu de bon sens revient (peut-être) dans le choix de ce que nous mettons dans nos assiettes.
I need to vent sorry.
I am angry. I was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder Type 2 and Borderline Personality Disorder. My family and my therapist and my psychiatrist want me on Abilify or Lithium or Latuda or a combination.
But I got a basic standard nutrion blood test from my doctor showing I'm dangerously low in B12 and Vitamin D. Everyone including my nutritionist and doctor blew that off like it was no big deal.
I learned from my own research that micronutrient deficiencies can lead to mental illness because a lack of adequate nutritional intake can lead to the breakdown of the brain and body. Not enough energy or material to produce the right hormones and neurotransmitters to keep everything up and running.
I feel like most doctors, psychiatrists, psychologist, dieticians, and nutritionists overlook the fact that commercialized agricultural soil depletion domestically and internationally has had a catastrophic affect on the mental health of billions of individuals worldwide as our food systems have become more global.
I'm deeply offended that neither my primary care physician, my talk therapist, my psychiatrist, or my nutritionist give one flying f what my RBC Magnesium levels are, what my iodine levels are, what my B vitamin levels are, what my Vitamin D levels are, how complete my actual full essential amino acid profile looks like besides '"just eat more protein!", what my Omega 3 EPA and DHA levels are, etc.
Why it isn't standard practice for every single patient with mental health issues who walks through the door of any mental health care professional's door to be required to get a detailed comprehensive blood test prior to treatment IS BEYOND ME.
It absolutely blows my mind and appalls me that I can suffer from crippling mood swings for decades and then spend 15 minutes with a complete stranger in a nice office and have them scribble a prescription down on a notepad for me to take dangerous drug concoctions made in labs to make me "feel better" and they don't ask me anything other than if I smoke, drink, eat a "balanced" diet, and get enough sleep and exercise. No blood tested.
I've had to beg, plead, and CONVINCE my primary care physician to "grant" me the "privilege" of an "unnecessary" nutrition blood panel and when I got my results back I asked where are all the other micronutrients listed? They are so stingy at the doctors office they only give the bare minimum to test because I'm not "dying on the spot".
I found a service called Inside Tracker and I feel like my insurance should cover extensive blood testing like what they offer. But they don't. You have to pay $700 out of pocket to get all your biomarkers and insurance won't reimburse for a private company.
This is abhorrent. I feel like if I were a nutritional psychiatrist I would include an Inside Tracker or an equivalent service detailed blood test with my initial patient intakes to establish their mental and physical health starting point baseline.
Then I would prescribe my patients a combined meal plan and vitamin/supplement regiment that ACTUALLY ADDRESSES any underlying nutritional deficiencies they are having like low B12, low Vitamin D, inadequate amino acid profile, low RBC magnesium, low copper, low iodine, etc.
It's bs to diagnose someone with low B12 as "depressed". They're not depressed they're deficient in a vital nutrient! That would be as asinine as diagnosing a hungry person with "Food Obsession Disorder" because they get hungry again every 4 hours after their body consumes and digests their last meal. That's not a disorder, That's normal! We SHOULD feel like crap if we haven't eaten in hours or days! If we didn't, we would die happy but emaciated!!! That's NOT how we adapted or evolved to survive as a species.
So why WOULDN'T we feel moody and depressed with low B12 and low Vit and low Magnesium?! We SHOULD feel like dysregulated dysfunctional basket cases when we have micronutrient deficiencies!! For God's sake how ELSE would our brains and bodies let us know it needs more nutritional fuel!!!???
I feel like I'm talking to a WALL every time I mention ANYof this to ANYONE in my life. Like I get these days, glazed o er looks from people like they have absolutely no f*cking clue what I am talking about.
I feel like I'm connecting dots not many other people can see.
So I feel stuck right now because I've been guessing and checking with random vitamins trying to self advocate for my own health because I don't feel like my "care team" really "gets it".
If I were a mental health professional I would insist that my patients get their blood retested EVERY 3 MONTHS to ensure we are getting their numbers in the OPTIMAL HEALTH ZONES as an OFFICIAL TREATMENT PLAN.
Nobody takes meal planning and Vitamin supplements seriously except for aesthetics or after someone has a heart attack or cancer. Nobody looks at food and vitamins as a serious respectable treatment plan used in conjunction to frequent blood testing under the supervision and review of a trained and licensed mental health professional/nutritionist/dietician/psychiatrist.
I was hospitalized for a drug induced manic episode years ago when I was prescribed Prozac and Adderall for a misdiagnosis of Depression and ADHD. They tested my blood at the hospital for medication levels and basic nutrition like sodium potassium cholesterol etc. Then they gave me crappy junky processed hospital food tray meals and shoved Depakote and Inderol down my throat and then patted me on the head, signed my evaluation papers, and sent me on my way after a week of TV watching, crayon drawing "art therapy", and group therapy.
This is a travesty!!! This is our flawed and broken system.
I'm upset that eating a balanced diet isnt enough, due to soil depletion. We aren't getting everything we need from our food. Nobody takes supplements seriously for treatment or prevention of certain physical or mental health issues.
And I'm tired of getting dirty looks, quizzical facial expressions, and exasperated sighs from my primary care physician whenever I ask to get referrals retested for my nutrition blood panel every 3 months to see where my numbers are at.
I'm tired of feeling like I'm just cobbling together a treatment plan nobody really believes in. Also I'm tired of guessing and checking with how much of each supplement to take. I should really just be able to find a nutritional psychiatrist coveted under my insurance who will help me track my data where we care my mood symptoms with my micronutrient levels on a graph over 3, 6,9,12 month periods.
I should be able to visually see my numbers going up qnd down. Measurable data to do cross comparison with my mental illness symptoms.
This seems so obvious to me. But yet it's like I might as well be speaking a foreign language to most people when I try and speak about this.
I'm angry because I can't afford Inside Tracker or an equivalent and their way more superior detailed comprehensive analysis nutritional blood panels. And my insurance won't cover it. The reason I can't afford Inside Tracker's Ultimate plan bundle is because my mental illness is so severe I can barely hold down a steady job. With little to no income, I'm offered medication and talk therapy coveted by my insurance and if I'm compliant with medication then I can join an IIP or IOP care facility. But I already tried that route and it got me nowhere except drugged out with weird unpleasant or scary effects.
I feel like if only I could upload my blood tests results into Inside tracker or something similar and found the correct supplements and foods that support my body's very specific needs for my gender, height, weight, genetic predispositions etc. then that would be as good or better than f*cking Abilify wtf.
But too bad I'm broke and my care team don't give a sh*t about anything except trying to drug me instead of helping me course correct and address all my underlying nutritional deficiencies before even THINKING about incorporating a "medication". I understand there is a place for pharmaceutical drugs and thank goodness for things like antibiotics but holy eff it should NOT be the first line defense every single time someone walks into an office of a therapist and exclaims, "I'm tired, depressed, stressed, and angy." Medication should be the LAST thing tried AFTER RULING OUT micronutrient deficiencies.
Just my very unprofessional but exasperated opinion as a "patient" for the last 31 years!
Impressionnant comme le monde médical récupère à son profit les concepts qu'il a combattu durant des décennies !
Un joli nom bien "scientifique" et le tour est joué !
De tous temps les hygiénistes et naturopathes se sont fait critiquer, ridiculiser et attaquer pour affirmer exactement ces principes de base.
Au delà de l'aspect lamentable du procédé, l'avantage est qu'enfin un peu de bon sens revient (peut-être) dans le choix de ce que nous mettons dans nos assiettes.
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A mention - Yoiur intro was way too loud compaired to your voice or the other way around