[FollowingTheDao]

As you can understand and see I am on a razors edge when it comes to talking about this stuff, and even more so with this in the medical field. It was really the "20% is not unusual" part that skewered me in the brain because before I posted this no one here probably heard of this gene and its strong effect on the microbiome and diet.

And now I just want to add, for your interest, that Mood Disorders are not fundamentally neurological, I am sorry to say, but in fact they are immune disorders which affect neurology. You would do the mentally ill a huge favor by sending your patients to rheumatology for care.

It has been 50 years since my mother was diagnose with Bipolar Disorder and here I am now, with the same issues, and they are pretty much prescribing the same meds and looking at it in the same way. So whenever I meet a neurologist I have to express my frustration because you need to think about mood disorders in a radically new way if something is to change and being nice did not change anything. And now, when I find things out that help me I get no help from my doctors, just a "glad that worked for you" and the cold shoulder when I ask for more testing.

[mandmandam]

> Mood Disorders are not fundamentally neurological, I am sorry to say, but in fact they are immune disorders which affect neurology

This is interesting to me, thank you. The gut-brain link is fascinating.

Have you read "The Body Keeps the Score"? There are some absolutely shocking stats in that book about the correlation between early childhood trauma and mood disorders. You may find the stuff about EMDR and reconnecting with the body interesting. That said, BPD is often an outlier; as in, it doesn't respond the same as most others.

... I'm not an expert. But, I think the author of that book would agree with you on the difficulty of presenting new information to doctors/neurologists/psychiatrists. It seems to require a lot of resilience.

[FollowingTheDao]

Your are welcome.

Yes, I have read Mate's book. I assure you my fcked up childhood was one part of the problem but my genetic risk combined with a "farmer's diet" is a greater factor for me, even more so in relation to my cardiovascular and autoimmune health.

I do have a feeling that genetics is even more important than trauma and that the correlation between the two is found because of the genetics.

[limpbizkitfan]

There are very many theories regarding what is and isn’t a contributing mechanism to mental health. Nutrition is one thing, when I ate less I lost weight and had less fatigue and depression. But that happened in concert with treatment aligned with the serotonin/norepinephrine signaling theory of depression, and it worked for me, as it has very many others in regular drug studies.

I don’t think it’s a good idea to dismiss medicine right away but it was an essential 15% to the 85% of my work putting in place methods and giving myself a chance to change.

[FollowingTheDao]

> There are very many theories regarding what is and isn’t a contributing mechanism to mental health

That was pretty much the whole point of my comment. Why are there many theories? Because their are are many causes. Until we start looking at every one individually no one will get well.

And I am in no way dismissing medicine, I only want doctors to start practicing it again.