Better Than Psychiatric Drugs, Part Three: The Right Tree.

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 revelealed 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, deficiences 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 nutitional deficiency and the person will experience resurgence.

The correct first action on a seriously mentally disturbed person therefore is a full searching clinical examination by a competent medical doctor.The correct second action is find and fix the cause.

There follows below a by no mens exhaustive list of things that can affect quite seriously a person’s mental state and behaviour. Just to give you an idea, let me start with the example of Lyme Disease.

Lyme Disese 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 Lymes infection is missed,

The psychiatrist,without checking for any one of a long list of ailments that can cause a person to feel depressed, diagnosed “depression” and wrote 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.

In fact, Dr. Paul Fink, past president of the American Psychiatric Association, has admitted that every disorder in Psychiatry’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM IV) can be caused by Lyme Disease. Yet Psychiatrists when diagnosing, steadfastly ignore the spectrum of possible causes of an emotional condition and will