testimonial - treating mental disorders with homeopathy

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I met Teresa in another group. She is available to

talk with anyone who would like information about how

she treated her anxiety/depression with homeopathy.

Here is her email address. If you're interested, just

tell her you're from my group. Kel

 

 

risekramer

 

 

Hi, Kelly!

 

I would be glad to share some knowledge about

homeopathy, but I am at a loss to know where to

begin. First maybe I could share that I have, for the

first time since I began to have dealings with

psychiatrists in 1999, a kind, honest, helpful

psychiatrist! I do hope that you have found someone

like that, too. How wonderful that your therapist is

still working at 79! I was about to give up and think

good " shrinks " did not exist. Because of moving around

with my husband's job, I was seen by about 10

different psychiatrists. The one I have recently found

is a gem--and the others were unfortunately the pits!

That is rather ironic, since I am now perhaps at the

point where I will not need the psychiatrist much. At

least I hope that will be the case.

 

I do hope that cognitive therapy will help you. Since

1999 I was sent along that path as well as being given

drugs. Talk therapy helped a good deal in some

ways--helped change me from a workaholic to someone

who takes things a lot easier. But that was no

solution for the biochemical problem. Total insomnia,

which has been the bane of my existence off and on

since 1998, can't be helped by cognitive therapy, in

my experience. The highs, the lows, and the insomnia

were helped very nicely by lithium, for example, only

I became a vegetable--lost all creativity and drive

and thus much of the pleasure of life. Homeopathy has

allowed me to get off lithium and the other drugs I

was put on (with this wonderful psychiatrist's

blessings.) I hope that I may be lucky and not even

ever have another bout with major highs or lows! Or if

I do, I firmly believe that some sleeping meds plus

homeopathic treatment will get me by without resorting

to antidepressants ever again.

 

Since September 04 I have been in what homeopaths

call " constitutional treatment " with naturopathic

homeopaths in AZ. (Homeopaths are not licensed here in

VA where I am living right now, so there are not very

many in the DC area at all. There are 11 states in the

US where they are licensed. Mostly in the West.) Since

this time last year, I am off antidepressant drugs for

the first time since 1999 and doing well, thanks to

the homeopaths in AZ. Before that I had gone off the

drugs over and over because I knew deep down that they

were not a solution for me, however much they may suit

others.

 

Needless to say, I am enormously grateful for the help

I have gotten through homeopathy. If anyone is really

interested, I can try and explain how I could live in

VA and be treated by doctors in AZ--and only have been

seen by them once. That is a bit complicated and

entails a good deal of understanding of how homeopathy

works. It would not be possible with other modalities,

of course.

 

In case you or anyone from your group has seen What

the Bleep Do We Know, that would make it a bit easier

to understand what homopathy can do. Using homeopathy

for the first time (just like using acupuncture or TCM

or Reiki or reflexology) requires a leap of faith. We

do not use material doses of medicines; homeopathy is

energy medicine in its purest form. It is quantum

medicine, so to speak.

 

A classical homeopathic doctor (can be an MD, a

psychiatrist, Nurse Practitoner, or none of the above)

uses a totally individualized single remedy to treat

the whole person. That is to say, s/he does not treat

" depression " or " anxiety " or any other diagnosis, but

the whole person. So it is of no interest to know what

I am being given; someone else who suffers from

anxiety or depression or highs would need a medicine

suited to them. There's the rub! Individualizing

treatment (as opposed to treating by protocol after

establishing a diagnosis) entails getting to know the

patient/client very well. A homeopath spends anywhere

from 2 hours to, in my case, almost 7 hours " taking

the case " , i.e. listening to the patient's life

history to get to know who the patient is and then

chooses a remedy that suits the individual. The first

consultation is usually quite expensive, but

thereafter treatment is often much less expensive than

conventional medical treatment.

 

There are over 3000 homeopathic remedies made from

plants, animals, or minerals. The first ones were

developed in Germany in the early 1800s. There are

many homeopathic practitioners in other parts of the

world (especially Britain, France, India, and some

South American countries), but, because of the

stranglehold the AMA and the pharmaceutical companies

have over the US, there are relatively few here at

present. Many of the doctors, hospitals, and medical

schools in the US in the 1800s practiced homeopathy,

but it almost died out here between 1920 and 1970.

Since the 70s there are more and more people

interested in studying homeopathy, but because of

licensing problems, there are still not a lot of

practicing homeopaths.

 

I had the good fortune to find out about homeopathy

because I was living in countries where it is much

used. When I was first diagnosed with Major Depression

and later with Bipolar Disorder, however, we were

living in Moscow, and there are not many homeopaths

there because it was illegal to practice homeopathy in

the Soviet period. So I did not get good treatment for

the biochemical brain disorder until very recently.

 

On the other hand, the first homeopath who treated me,

back in 1997/8 in Morocco, put an end ot my chronic

sinusitis of 20 years' standing, and also to a problem

with cervical dysplasia that could have led to a

hysterectomy. If I had been able to stay in treatment

with that practitioner, I would probably never have

known I had inherited Bipolar problem. Homeopathy

treats the whole person but with very deep-seated

diseases like Bipolar disorder, it can take many

months, even years of treatment. We moved on before

her treatment had reached that deep.

 

I began to study homeopathy in 1998 on my own (as do

many people in the US and elsewhere) and am now able

to treat myself and my family for minor acute problems

without recourse to drugs. Bipolar disorder is of

course not something a layperson, no matter how well

informed, can treat. But there are study groups all

over the US, both for laypersons like me and for

medical professionals, for those interested in

learning more about homeopathy.

 

I will stop here, since I don't know whether you or

anyone you are in touch with is ready to investigate

something as much outside-the-box as homeopathy. If

you are, there is a great book called Homeopathy:

Beyond Flat Earth Medicine by Dr. Tim Dooley, MD, for

about $10 from Amazon or at Dr. Dooley's website. It

explains in simple, clear fashion what homeopathy is

and a bit about what it can do. Another one,

Impossible Cure by Amy Lansky, costs around $18 and is

also available from Amazon. Ms. Lansky's son was cured

of autism by a homeopath; she then gave up her career

as a computer scientist, wrote the book, and became a

homeopathic practitioner.

 

There are hundereds of websites that Google will bring

up if prompted with the words homeopathy or

homeopathic. Among the most informative are

www.homeopathic.org, which is the website of the

National Center for Homeopathy and www.Lyghtforce.org,

an international homeopathic information site. Be

aware that many things are called " homeopathic " when

they really are not, unfortunately. Homeopathy is

indeed holistic, but it is NOT herbal!

 

There is a lot of good, free information on the web

and there are a number of excellent practitioners who

charge reasonable prices even here in the US. Many are

covered by insurance, as they are licensed

practitioners in other fields.

 

Kelly, you can make use of this information in any way

you wish. If anyone has a question about anything

concerning homeopathy, I will do my best to answer or

to find out the answer if I don't know it. Homeopathy

has changed my life and will hopefully change the

lives of my children all four of whom risk being

diagnosed with some sort of biochemical brain problem

at some point. (They range in age from 36 to 21 and

two have already been in treatment for severe

depression. As my father and his 6 siblings were all

either bipolar, unipolar, and/or alcoholics, I hate to

think where my children would be without homeopathy to

fall back on. Of course I care even more about what

happens to them than about what I have gone through

looking for a solution to this inherited disorder.

 

I wish you all the very, very best and am ready to do

whatever I can to help others find out about the

miracle of homeopathy!

 

Teresa