Hello deedee,
you social situations - alcoholic husband
and daughter - and your own health
problems seem to be hitting you from all
angles. You must be a strong person to
be able to handle this so far.
I can only give you some advice on the
health problems. You mention that you
have fibromyalgia and I know this is often
related to depressive disorders.
Most of the ‘mental’ symptoms you have
mentioned, including that of your husband
and daughter, may be due to a gene running
in the family, putting you all at risk of
having depression. Depression is the
major forerunner of most of the symptoms
of depression, alcoholism drug addiction,
anxiety attacks, insomnia and so on.
However genes can be beaten!
Most people look upon depression as a
“mental” disorder, but in fact I
regard depression to be a nutritional
disease. Thus drug therapy and/or
psychotherapy are really palliative
remedies - treating symptoms, but not
causes - because they fail to treat the
underlying causes of depression.
For the brain to convert one molecule into
another it needs energy! Thus the brain
needs energy to convert tryptophan, found
in food, into serotonin, our major
feel-good neurotransmitter.
That energy is derived from the sugars we
eat, and when we have an obstruction in
the production of energy from sugars in
the food, the brain is starved of energy.
It will then trigger the release of
stress hormones - such as adrenaline -
aggravating ‘mental’ symptoms.
This is usually caused by insulin
resistance. This means that insulin
fails to push glucose across cell
membranes and hence cells are deprived of
energy, although you could have high blood
sugar levels.
The non-drug treatment is going on a
hypoglycemic diet (similar to a diabetic
diet) and so we see that depression, and
all its consequences (alcoholism, drug
taking) is really a nutritional disorder.
This is generally not recognized among
traditional and mainstream medicine and
psychology.
Thus there is an ultimate solution to
your’s and your husband’s problems,
but the first step is the treat the
biochemical abnormality that causes so
much emotional upheavals. It is a long
road. If your husband or daughter do not
want to join you in treatment, then start
with your own treatment by going on the
hypoglycemic diet. (search web site)
the condition that I am talking about can
be medically tested, see:
articles ---> “testing for
hypoglycemia....”
or the nbi (search web site)
start reading
“what is hypoglycemia?” and the follow
up articles.
Familiarize yourself with the connection
between depression and hypoglycemia.
Also read:
“why hypoglycemics choose alcohol as
their preferred source of energy” at our
web site.
Please discuss with your doctor or
therapist.
Jurriaan plesman, ba(psych), post grad.
Dip. Clin. Nutr.
For more articles see free web site at
http://www.Hypoglycemia.Asn.Au
