mental disorders

They are very helpful IF the person using them is willing to learn WHO and WHAT they are and how their body and mind work together and are not in denial, expecting someone else to do it for them instead of learning about themselves.

Again, it is all symptoms. Every person will have various symptoms even though they may be diagnosed with the same illness. bi-polar people can be 10 types of people and then each may act differently at different times.

Some mental illness is so very severe that a logical outlook on life is nearly impossible. Others are very determined to overcome the illness and work hard with information and paying attention to the action of anti-depressants vs alternative helps or the combining of the two. (while the MD in charge looks on with suspicion)

Now, throw in a little environmental illness with severe pain in the body from this or Fibromyalgia and let's try to decide which should be addressed first. And which came first?

Past fears, childhood, molestation, physical and mental abuse can be a direct cause of depression in a young person or adult. Some of these things seem to pass and then some unexpected thing will set it off and it is like it just happened-fresh.

Yes, Homeopathy is very helpful in many ways as we try to treat all the variables of the individual. There are some general views, but no set answers. There are books on homeopathic psychiatry. Go to homeopathic books for sale sites.

MDs continously FORGET and/or disregard that we are individuals and not all the same. There are similarities, but never the "same."

Now, here is the kicker. Families do not believe their family members are sick. They treat them as if they are faking it for attention. They are impatient and abusive. I know of families that have taken a person's meds away from them as a type of punishment. They tell them to straighten up and behave. Families throw them out of the home.

Friends, lifelong friends dump them.

I know of women and men forced to live in their cars for many years. Many times when I see a woman with her shopping cart I wonder what caused her to reach this state. Could it be that there was no one that cared enough to help her while she was still reachable and she was just lost to the "normal" as we call it.

Not all doctors treat mentally ill and ones with environmental illness as if they are neurotic, but enough that it is becoming a topic of conversation and many support groups.

Migraine suffers have been treated like dope addicts for over 50 years. Only the past 15 years doctors have begun to believe that migraine actually exists.

Trying to get disability has become so inhumane that the lawyers that promise to help, will wait a year or more to get to court and then the judge looks down their nose at the person as if they are dead-beats and take 4 to 9 months to decide pro or con for this person that may have worked hard all their life and acquired a home, become ill and thanks to these two people, now this person has lost everything they worked for all their life. Two people.

It isn't a simple remedy. How I wish it were...SABRA

PS...Does anyone remember, realize, are aware, really care, that most of our most learned, most brilliant, most unusual discoverers, most brilliant artesians and scientests were many a little odd, a little non-conformist, a strange sort and many a little more than strange, downright scary.

Some shunned by society, Some shunning society, UNTIL their discoveries or findings or pieces of art were proven or appreciated, usually after their deaths...

We are truely a short sighted intolerant society that really wishes all were conformed to behave in an acceptable manner as to not rock the boat and disturb other non-thinking humanoids.

TV entertains (buy, buy, buy) as we live in complete boredom not aware we are only half alive. We breathe, but we do not live.

School children are not encouraged to be creative or allowed to be different, they are forced to conform or take medicine to dull their senses. AND if their parents will not agree to the medicines, the child MAY be removed from the home by Child Protection Services!!!

Sorry moderator, this is my soap box speech for today. I am preparing two speaking engagements on the subject...SABRA