The World’s Top Stealth Bug Ends Marriages, Friendships and Jobs

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The World’s Top Stealth Bug Ends

Marriages, Friendships and Jobs

Bartonella Promotes Addiction,

Aggression and Character Disorders

Dr. James Schaller, M.D.

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I hate medical drama. If I want drama I will watch a movie, a sporting event

or a TV show. Bartonella has almost 2,000 articles on PubMed, but almost no

one realizes it is a major source of depression and suicide, panic attacks

and social anxiety, seizures, heart attacks, personality change, pushy

behavior, divorce, profound narcissism, eccentric obsessions, irritability,

hostility, property destruction, cursing, fatigue, chemical sensitivity, memory

trouble, addiction to **take the edge off,** attention trouble, autism,

impulsive

rage, fighting and even manslaughter. It can cause you to have 20 types of

injury to every organ of the body, and perhaps over a hundred effects on the

brain. In this short article, I am going to focus on the **real world** issues

of Bartonella and ignore its effects on your spleen or gizzard.

 

Blindness is routine in medicine. We look at what we believed 50 years ago

in mainstream medicine and shudder. Let me let you in on a “hot†stock tip,

or a hot medical tip for a *racehorse* that is already across the finish line.

Specifically, I have spent thousands of hours studying Bartonella, and as

the author of the most recent two-part color textbook on Bartonella, I shudder

more each week as I deal with this infection*s new lessons. Bartonella is not

a shower rinse, it is a Katrina, and no one understands the levies have been

completely destroyed. That is the genius of Bartonella. It destroys lives

without causing obvious illness.

 

This is a bacterium that actually turns off a fever [1] and floats in the

blood, turning off parts of human immunity. The entire world is blind to the

massive destruction of Bartonella, but that is coming to an end. It helped

destroy Napoleon*s army and aided in their defeat [2]. And in modern times I

feel

strongly it is vastly more common than Lyme, and it is perhaps second only

to cold/flu and the 400 million infected with malaria each year.

 

Currently, the ability of virtually every international lab to detect

Bartonella borders on a disaster. Using human genome project techniques, 32

specific unique species have been isolated, yet labs only test for two species.

When

I reported these 32 species, a so-called **Lyme expert** author and PhD.,

said I am possibly wrong because she did not find it on her **Google search.**

If you have this kind of anti-intellectual friend to guide you medically into

new areas of cutting-edge medicine, you are simply lost. With such a sage,

you have no need for terrorists. She published that medical research pearl

with a serious face-**do a Google search.**

 

Some healthcare workers and patients in the Lyme community routinely show

signs of Bartonella-type behavior, and it has often hindered unity. Some

divisions are weird. Some alienation is weird. It is the Bartonella that causes

the

weirdness. You do not see such agitation and reactions in asthma, Hepatitis

C or COPD groups. I know it is easy to say someone is a *jerk* or *loser*,

but some of these folks have Bartonella in their head. They are different than

the person they were 5, 10 or 20 years ago - stunningly different. They are

different in a manner that is not consistent with normal personality changes.

I want to discuss this in clear and simple ways below, after a terse word on

Bartonella testing.

 

Patients with certain Bartonella are virtually always labled negative based

on lab testing. One lab recently raised their cut-off for a positive to a

very high level, because they seemed to be worried they were getting too many

positives. I bet they were and what they found was still a tiny fraction!

Patients with clear and active Bartonella have virtually always come back

negative

due to poor antibody tests; poor PCR tests and poor manual smear staining

techniques [3, 4]. I have yet to meet any healthcare worker in the world who

has read at least hundreds of Bartonella articles. Some have read ten articles

and feel they are up-to-date! This disease destroys lives and it will not be

mastered by ten articles. 99.9% of health care workers have almost a complete

lack of meaningful knowledge about Bartonella.

 

Bartonella Ruins Marriages and Close Relationships

 

John said he could not stand his wife, Laura. She was loud and every word

she said was like a foghorn. She was pushy and always violating his boundaries.

She looked at his work emails and called him when he was in serious work

meetings. Laura **never had a clue that she was doing things at the wrong time

and too intensely.**

 

Laura felt John was always ready to jump down her throat. He was irritable

and restless. He had become too much of a drinker, and it scared her. He

sometimes drove in a rushed and scary manner, and often ignored her demands he

drive **like a sane person.**

 

Both said the marriage was over and they could not stand each other.

 

I simply asked a number of questions so I could hear about all the major

areas of their lives. And while they were angry with their spouse, both had

some

small but annoying medical troubles, and both had other people that troubled

them. Of course when you live in the same house, the spouse, the parent or

the sibling gets it the worst.

 

I told them I supported the idea of a divorce, but since I was looking at

labs that showed clear Bartonella from five types of lab findings, from three

different laboratories, that perhaps they should wait until they returned to

the old healthy John and Laura, and then divorce that person. A divorce at

this stage would just be divorcing a person with bacteria and massive

inflammation in the brain. It would be like divorcing your spouse for being

irritable

due to chemotherapy from cancer.

 

I suggested this delay in the divorce and they each looked at me like I was

nuts. Since I am quite nuts, this did not trouble me at all. It showed me

they were in touch with reality. Yet after some more education, and a second

review of the labs, both agreed they wanted to give the medical care a serious

trial first. They would address the marriage later. I knew they would make it

because they had insight. They could see the labs were off. While they did

not feel they were deeply ill, they could understand the lab results. They also

realized they were not at 100% emotionally and physically. The immense

danger with Bartonella and other tick-borne disease is the loss of insight. It

causes many deaths - heart attacks, strokes, cancer, pulmonary embolisms, car

deaths and injury, suicide and death by ignoring basic reasonable preventative

health care.

 

Today, this couple talks about being **best friends,** having a **pretty

reasonable** love life, trying to fight off time bandits that limit their

**nice

talks** together. They are still fighting just a bit more than they were in

the past, but the momentum is dying and their fights last a minute and are

resolved in 10 minutes. They look back at the time when they had Bartonella

and are stunned and a bit frightened that they almost walked out on their best

friend. They do not understand it. They do not know why they were so

alienated. Their Bartonella cure has saved their marriage. In a recent phone

call,

they were discussing relatives they were sending to me for treatment, and as

they laughed together on the line, I was deeply moved and I reminded them of

our session when we went over their lab results and they were both fed up, and

both had already given divorce retainers to the most *vicious* divorce

attorneys in town. All of us could not believe the shift and healing between

them.

 

Bartonella **Drunks** and Drug Abusers

 

Angela was never one to drink until she was 28 years old. She had gone

camping in North Carolina and had developed a fever. She went to three *top*

infection physicians, and they were not sure of the cause of her low-grade

ongoing

fever and her new restlessness. She found her way to a psychiatrist, but one

that had recently spent a good deal of time learning **cognitive -

behavioral** treatments for anxiety. Since I learned these in the 80*s, I was

confused why she was not offered medications when his treatments were not

significantly helping her.

 

She dropped him and simply started drinking wine. She had wine with her late

afternoon **wind down.** She had wine with her kid*s dinner. She had wine

with her dinner. She had wine with her husband when he came home late. Four

drinks will dissolve a brain and that was certainly happening to Angela.

 

But what worried her husband was she left their little toddler alone at

times when she had been drinking. She became forgetful and more distracted. Her

toddler eventually died in her pool. She was in the other room and was not

really drunk, but not fully alert either.

 

Soon after the death of her son, she was found to be Bartonella positive. It

became clear she was having major brain fog with even one drink. Angela

realized she could not drink. She joined AA and dedicated herself to her faith

and sought forgiveness.

 

Angela is now very passionate about mental functioning. She will simply tell

you that you are foggy and ask what is wrong. And she will run down a series

of possible causes. She has helped a number of folks catch medical problems

like Bartonella. One of her friends, who was a very aggressive driver, was

found to have both Bartonella and Lyme, and now is doing much better with

treatment. He had a few very close calls where he could have been seriously

hurt

or killed another driver due to his agitated or impulsive driving.

 

* * *

 

Phil was a hunter in New Jersey. He caught Bartonella and slowly became

irritable and anxious. Cocaine and heroin made him feel *right.* He had a

family

history of drug abuse and so he figured it was just his genetics. When he was

found to have Bartonella, he was given Suboxone (See my Suboxone textbook)

and he was off the heroin in 3 days. He had to use other medications while he

was treated very aggressively for Bartonella and other medical troubles. Now

he is off all illegal drugs, and he has no anxiety and feels content - **like

I did years ago.** I feel the Bartonella caused his need to use destructive

substances. Agitation, reactivity, panic attacks and serious insomnia can

often be from Bartonella.

 

Bartonella Aggression and **Hot Heads**

 

Sean told me he would walk around **bad neighborhoods** at night, dying for

a fight. If no one bothered him, he would go into a bar and pick a fight. He

did not care if he was hurt. He was simply filled with a fire inside. He had

to blow to release it. Sean also lost his job because of disrespectful

hostile comments to his boss. He was diagnosed with two forms of Babesia, along

with Lyme and Bartonella.

 

* * *

 

Michele was not one to use bad language. In fact, as a pastor*s wife and a

passionate Christian, she had not cursed in years. But she went up to Martha*s

Vineyard and, after that trip to see some friends, she was clearly

different. She had **a flu** after her fourth day, and was never quite right

*emotionally* after that time. She needed antidepressants at very high dosages

to keep

from crying. She had Bartonella, and when that was treated she was weaned

off the antidepressants over five months. Michele is very patient again. She is

back caring for those living as single mothers and those who have incurable

fatal diseases - two areas she feels a strong desire to serve.

 

Bartonella Suicide and Violence

 

A priest went for a long series of walks in the Texas countryside while

visiting a fellow clergyman. He loved the outdoors and he loved nature. Father

Paul was treasured by his parishioners. He had served them with integrity and

immense love for many years. Soon after his Texas trip, his mood took a

profound dive. He developed a combined profound depression with agitation. He

went

to his family doctor and then to three psychiatrists. Over three years he

became worse and worse. A short treatment with a brain stimulation treatment

helped him for 2 weeks, but soon he was depressed and agitated again. Then one

day he took his life.

 

Some time after his death, a pathology sample was sent for DNA evaluation.

He had Bartonella. Unfortunately for this tortured fine man, no one ever

considered this as the cause for his suffering and the reason his mood

treatments

had failed. I strongly hope his suffering will teach others that, when

routine treatments do not work, consider tick and flea-borne infections.

 

***

 

Mike explained to me that he could not understand why he had harmed his

girlfriend. She was only mildly annoying, and he committed aggravated assault

and

hurt her severely. He had lab testing for his mood troubles and some unusual

rashes three weeks before his assault on his girlfriend. He had many

physical exam findings of Bartonella and he had lab testing showing he had

Bartonella. Unfortunately for him, the legal system usually functions at a 9th

grade

science level, and no one was ever going to consider a simple case of mere

**cat scratch fever** as the cause for his eccentric aggression. Mike had

adopted two stray kittens months before his assault. They slept in his bed. The

odds they carried Bartonella were very high.

 

Ignoring Bartonella is serious. It is time to put this infection front and

center, and to also realize it is impossible to cure Lyme disease with a

powerful immune suppressing bacteria possibly floating throughout all your

capillaries and deepest tissues.

 

***

 

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