Guest guest Posted April 11, 2004 Report Share Posted April 11, 2004 Hi Moss, Hey you have come a long way since I talked with you about a year ago. You were in that group that you mentioned, it had about 2 active members who believed and promoted the use of drugs and had been abandoned by the owner. It was supposed to be on alternative approaches to bipolar but all the messages were pro drug and when I tried to tell you about all the alternative resources on the web for mental health, at that time you told me that you were pretty happy taking the drugs. If you want to learn about these drugs and also natural approaches, do a search in our archives and you will find hundreds of articles about them and also hundreds of articles about natural things that work better over time and are not destructive. In fact the side effects are usually better health throughout the body in all areas. Also on our links page you will find lots of links to good sites which have a lot more informtion. By the way SSRI's do cause brain changes also, as do most chemical exposures. Frank , Moss Bliss <zaivalananda> wrote: > Dear Frank and AMF People, > > I have my own Moss Reports, and I post them to my blog. I thought I would share today's entry with you. > > ------------- > > > I usually talk about things happening outside in my life. I think I'll do something different today. > > The last several months have been very hard for me, inside my head and body, due to the change in treatment. The supplements have been keeping me stable, but my body is still in the process of repairing all the damage caused by the drugs I used to take; I've been on some psychoactive drug or other almost continuously since the age of 12, which is what I remember my age as being when they started me on Mysoline (primodone), an anti-convulsant. (If I remember the year wrong, I'm sorry.) > > It has been shown that the dopamine-receptor-blocking neuroleptic drugs (which, fortunately, I have not taken until very recently, with Zyprexa) actually cause your brain to grown up to 50% MORE dopamine receptors to recover from having the dopamine being blocked. When a patient stops taking the drug, they are then up to 50% more dopamine- sensitive, and it takes a while for their brain to recover to its former (pre-drug) state. This also shatters a myth we were taught in school, that brain cells do not grow or change. However, being dopamine-sensitive, the patient is considerably more prone to have a relapse of the condition s/he was taking the drugs for. > > Similar studies have not been done for SSRIs (Selective Serotonin Receptor Inhibitors), of which I've taken quite a few over a long period of time. But it will probably prove to be the same case. And they don't even KNOW what lithium and the anti-convulsants do... " treatment " is limited to suppressing the symptoms, not curing the condition. > > So the past 5 months, my emotions have been pretty wild. I haven't been cycling, thanks to the fish oil, so I've been able to look at the feelings that come up and try to understand them and control them the way a " normal " human would. But it's like being a teenager again, my emotions have been blocked by the drugs for so long that there is a fairly steep relearning curve. > > I know I have been encouraging everyone I can talk to about getting off the drugs. On the one hand, my current problems illustrate something else " bad " that the drugs do, and I have to recover not only from my disease but also from all the effects and side effects of the drugs. On the other hand, it might scare a few people who are on the drugs, and make them just want to adjust to the drug problems instead of taking on new issues. > > I know for myself that I need to do this. I want to be the person I am SUPPOSED to be, not the person the drugs make me into. But it's not easy, and I continue thanking the people who are helping me through this, including the people of the ALT-therapies4bipolar , the various other groups and chatrooms I'm in, and most of all Beth, my 3rd ex-wife, who has made herself available to me on a daily, sometimes hourly, basis. > > All my love, > Moss Bliss > > > > Tax Center - File online by April 15th > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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