Yup. Spend one 1 hour on social media and you will find that everyone is an expert on how to treat depression, and its obvious they have never had it nor have they spent 10 min learning what it actually is.
@@voltage0018 Even those saying they treat it. The comments they make and the unbelief in their face when you say you don’t feel better yet your not staring into space or still working. They think your still functioning so it can’t be that bad; makes me sick. They have no clue about depression. Not a clue
Good on this lady for recognising metabolising of these drugs . Vast majority of "drs" don't even know .it'll be many years before this lady is the norm .her patients are very lucky to have her . I'm watching this very depressed and running out of time fast.
I can’t escape being distraught about this not being the biggest focus of our society. EVERYBODY needs to have a profile done. Lord, can’t you help us.
Been depressed since early on...1st attempt was 12...went into psychology field to try n understand why people go thru this, anxiety and severe depression. So little known STILL about the brain...THE most vital body part
I’m glad you are here. ❤ I am a psych student trying to learn more about myself and family trauma, the effects on life and mindset. Have a wonderful 2023🎉
Psilocybin, MDMA and LSD all need to be removed from schedule I and placed as schedule II substances. People are dying from this disease and the solutions are there, let’s start to utilized psychedelic therapy.
Thank you for sharing this! This medical diagnostic review and treatment option needs to be a first line evaluation available now to patients! Seeking help when you have treatment resistant depression needs to be better understood and identified by the Mental Health community. I watched my son suffer for two years and after 3 suicide attempts finally ECT was offered and fortunately helped but through his illness many practitioners blamed him for his depression and SI and many recommended institutionalization and pushed for just discharge from the hospital. The MH system needs change and financial support to improve and develop new treatment options and care.
Can't thank you enough Dr. Lisa! YOU are restoring the rights of those unlucky few (TR patients) to belong to the human race! YOU are providing them the strength to hold their heads high who are born into Chordata - but without spine. Kudos!
She knows what she is discussing and all the funding needed should be available to continue and research more and offer help to people and for this information be available to primary care physicians and specialists, counselors, psychiatrists and more. I'm a Volunteer Patient Advocate and Volunteer Peer Support Specialist experiencing this and the immobilizing pain or RSD now called CRPS Cimplicates the issues and leaves me with going to one appointment after the other fortunately in wonderful medical transport for countless years and there is no help and it's wasting money that could be utilized to help resolve this instead of leaving us suffering unnecessarily. Suicide goes against my Spirituality but thinking about it every day isn't healthy and no one understands nor do most care. Sincerely, Empath plus...
I never understood how someone with depression and anxiety is supposed to find the strength to go to even one appointment for help, much less more than one appointment. The person that I am thinking of is old and does not remember ever having a good day in their entire life. They have so much anxiety that they cannot even find the mental strength to commit suicide. They are boxed into a "living hell" by extreme fear at every conceivable exit. I feel sorry for this person but I do not think anybody can help someone in that kind of condition.
That is exactly how I am. I would love to be able to talk to this person if I could and let them know I understand the relentless living hell.its such a lonely, terrifying state. We so badly need some comfort. They are lucky somebody like you understands this much about their state and cares though I bet they don't feel lucky I'm sure they are aware of your genuine care, it's just about impossible to feel any gratitude for anything when you're so completely despairing. Bless you for your care and concern for this person. It is terribly difficult to not be able to help someone you care about.
Your comment above is so poignant and psychologically you have understood this person’s mental status “ living hell” more than any number of therapists, so please don’t give up on this person. Maybe you are the anointed one for this person. God bless. Take care of yourself and the other.
So lonely /scared every minute of every day. Praying for death to end the suffering. No medication works it only makes it worse. Somebody please pray for me, my prayers don't work.
I hear you brother. I might be a million miles away but you are in my thoughts and know there is a destinct possibility that things will improve for you. Prayers are on the way. ❤
I would love to be a part of this study....I'm very prone to refractory depression. My teen son had his first onset of mental illness at exactly the same age as I did (10). Because of this, I'm pretty sure it's hereditary. When I was a baby and toddler I suffered from Petit Mal and at age 7 started phenobarbital for it.
Thank you. How do I ask for a spinal fluid analysis? I also think I have spinal fluid leak. I have been on 10 different (at least) medications and none have worked. I also have had migraines for 30+ years. The ringing in my head/ears is getting stronger. Something has to change; and I don't know what to do!? Any suggestions?
i have been denying treatment for years. i just vouldnt tell myself i needed help. now i feel lost and empty. i pushed away two vase workjers at my home making them think i was in trouble . but i am and idk how to get help for myself.
Yes, Iodine is significantly depleted in our foods.. they tried to correct it by putting it in salt and other general foods, but I think we might have more than just goiter to worry about..
Meds work temporarily...then stop. Too many side effects. Psychotherapy works but not long lasting instead needing it forever. Bipolar depression is the Worst. Depression with Anxiety can truly drive you to seclude or think of suicide just to end it. Maybe one day, a proper med or med cocktail will be found with less side effects.
i have depression with anxiety and i read this comment as i was planning my suicide. i just wanna say that you may have changed/saved my life, this comment gave me hope because it made me feel understood and i realised that i'm not the only person with these issiues, and also that i'm not making these up.
Agree 100%>>>Bipolar Depression with Anxiety is never ending with pauses but always comes back. The meds are temporary, ECT causes damage, Talk therapy doesn't help an issue with phsiological issues. After all these yrs of study...we know very little more than from previously. Research needs to be more involved and new minds looking at this constant, prevalent physical and mental issue in our society. As a nurse I'm appalled. As a patient I'm pissed off
The medical field doesn't understand that it is a metabolic disease, and you can customise a treatment for someone right now; but it falls on deaf ears..
Yes molecule could be just a drug.. she doesn't give away too much, which is very disappointing.. I must say though that the treatment for folate related depression would not be a drug, and is already used for depression in some cases, she just didn't say which form.. but I could make an educated guess.. Nor would Riboflavin, which she mentions and is not a drug either.. however, it would only work in very rare circumstances.. I have been saying it is metabolic for years, and because that is the case; you can create a custom treatment..
Yes and no. The drug she's referring to is likely Kuvan (sapropterin), which is the synthesized form of a chemical your body naturally produces -- tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4). For genetic reasons some people cannot produce as much of this as a normal healthy person would. This paper, coauthored by Pan, may interest you: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3116226/
