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Infections Routinely Ruin Relationships, Mood and Character The Most

Serious Consequence of Tick and Flea Infections

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by Dr. James Schaller

 

 

Do you see any of these in yourself or others in your life?

Moody and irritable Rigidity Impulsivity Poor insight New

distractibility Trouble finishing a task Difficulty handling unfair

criticism Acting unwisely with money, drinking, drugs, sex or speech content

Decreased speech speed and smoothness Decreased coordination Stress with

transitions or change Thoughts of suicide, dying and hating life Others

are flawed while patient is blind to his or her flaws Routine lateness

Empathic deficits Revenge fantasies and holding grudges with loved ones

 

Poor boundary awareness

 

 

All of these behaviors, mood problems and cognitive troubles listed above

were found in seven patients whose blood imagery is below. None of their

regular physicians or smart Lyme literate physicians diagnosed their

Bartonella and Babesia. Why?

 

1) Perhaps because some Lyme literate physicians still do not appreciate

almost all tick bites are â€dirty infections†which transfer many types of

bacteria into your body. A person who is not improving with advanced Lyme

treatment has at least one coinfection, and often more than one. An

individual who has been bitten by ticks three or more times almost always has

co-infections.

 

Second, they do not have access to a powerful new blood stain.

Specifically, a new patent--pending blood stain which makes Babesia and

Bartonella

vivid and clear to see. (See below). An infectious disease physician told me

my patients had too many positive results for Lyme, while his laboratory

Lyme Western Blot results were almost always negative, including in patients

with extensive tick bites and repeated bulls-eye rashes. He is fully certain

that his lab is reliable. I would not trust them to identify a stone.

Their hospital’s manual blood smear missed the Babesia and Bartonella

infections in the two images above, and they also missed these two infections

and

Lyme in antibody tests against each of these infections.

 

As I reflected on this physician’s extreme rigidity, unreasonableness and

routine false negative results in patients with obvious Lyme disease, I

realized something was cognitively wrong with him. Upon reflection, I realized

when I talked with him I observed many personality, character and

neurological flaws; then I realized I had many patients with similar flaws.

Many of

my patients had very subtle, pathological personality signs, not merely

obvious bulls-eye rashes. So I began testing for all major tick-borne

infections whenever I noticed any small personality abnormalities, cognitive

changes or emotional troubles–things commonly missed by relatives, friends

and

physicians, but which were called “character troubles.â€

 

I believe the most common symptoms of Bartonella, Babesia, Lyme, indoor

mold and biotoxins are small emotional and personality changes. If we look at

the evolution of Lyme and Bartonella, we see that the symptoms regarded as

central and typical are not found in most patients. For example, Lyme

disease was initially seen as almost entirely a rheumatology and joint disease.

Yet today we now know that a large percentage of patients have no

arthritis. In contrast, I would propose that 90% of Lyme patients will at some

time

show psychological, psychiatric or cognitive neurological findings.

 

Further, my initial Bartonella textbook findings show that this infection

has a massive variety of psychiatric and neurological signs and symptoms,

and these are far in excess of simplistic views of Bartonella. The notion

Bartonella is merely a short “cold†with a few weeks of enlarged lymph

nodes

is false. I have found that Bartonella causes virtually every psychiatric

illness, personality illness, and mood and cognitive disorder. The patient

cases below are routinely found with “recovered†Bartonella and Lyme

patients.

 

Infectious disease physicians have a very poor ability to notice highly

subtle psychiatric and cognitive changes, and so do not notice slight

infection or inflammation brain pathology signs. When I mean “slight†and

“subtle,

†I am not talking about obvious psychiatric and cognitive troubles such

as depression, anxiety and memory troubles. I am talking about comments,

emotions, thoughts and interpersonal behaviors that require study of the

frontal lobes and experience for educated patients to learn how to see.

 

Infectious disease physicians and General Physicians are able to diagnose

enlarged lymph nodes and fevers, but are unable to notice subtle character,

psychiatric and cognitive changes. Many physicians are seeing emerging

infections and emerging biotoxin issues, but they are often considered as part

of a person’s character defects, and not medical in any way. Psychiatric

character changes and small cognitive neurological illness are routine in

Lyme, Bartonella, Babesia or indoor mold exposure.

 

So, for example, if you feel that arthritis or joint symptoms are the most

common symptoms of tick or flea infections, I would suggest that you are

wrong. Individuals with these infections have neuropsychiatric findings far

more common than joint disease. Then these people with psychiatric and

characterological impairment are more likely to be rejected by their spouse,

children, parents, siblings, friends and work associates. These

neuropsychiatrically ill individuals are often rejected by loved ones because

their

brain illness is incorrectly considered “character impairment.†The brain

infection and brain-inflamed illness is seen incorrectly as “who they are.â€

 

Sometimes patients do better with joint disease because they are seen as a

poor, suffering patient with arthritis. If the infections and/or biotoxins

cause significant brain inflammation areas, these patients are seen not as

having a neurological or psychiatric disease, but as being “bad.†They

are seen as nasty, selfish, self-centered, distant, restless, lazy, moody,

rigid, impulsive, clueless, distractible, unhelpful, abusive, uncaring, pushy

and impulsive.

 

I believe millions of people with “personality and emotional problems“are

actually clear victims of newly emerging infections caused by common

ticks, fleas and contact with flea feces. Character disordered people or

individuals with excess aggression can have these problems caused by Lyme

disease,

nine human Bartonella species, thirteen human Babesia species, and flea

and dust mite feces contact. Some are also character disordered by the

biotoxins from indoor mold, Lyme disease or Bartonella—not the bacteria or

spore,

but the outer surface toxin.

 

Below are samples of the causes of brain inflammation or brain infection

which clearly alter a person’s personality. When the brain is inflamed or

infected, a person’s behavior is seriously changed in very specific ways—

from starting fist fights to mild restlessness.

 

Since I see this every day, I believe it is critical we stop calling these

medical illnesses “flaws in character†or “immorality.†Many infections

and many types of inflammation alter behavior. In patients with Bartonella,

Babesia, Biotoxins, Lyme, indoor mold exposure, biotoxins or inflammation,

approximately 95% have clear personality problems that are considered

character and personality flaws by their friends, relatives and co-workers.

This often leads to abuse of the patient, and rejection and isolation of these

neurological and psychiatrically impaired individuals.

 

These infectious, biotoxin and inflammation diseases are so severe that at

least 20% require schizophrenic and antidepressant medications at

profoundly high medication levels. Another 40% are easily overwhelmed by

extremely

low slivers of the smallest doses, because their brain is so sensitive and

inflamed. They have “brain fire,†which is severely inflamed brain tissue

and inflamed blood. This sensitivity clearly has nothing to do with

character, morality or their true personality. They often do well on small

fractions of medications, e.g., 1/8th to 1/4th of the very smallest tablet or

capsule.

 

It is critical we stop calling these medical illnesses “flaws in character.

†They are clearly due to altered brain function by very stealthy

infections and profound inflammation. Tick and flea infections and indoor mold

all

affect the front of the brain, appropriately in the front of your head. We

call this the " frontal lobe. " Think of it as the top of a pyramid.

 

And if a " brick " is out of place below the top of the structure, the top

of the pyramid will be " off. " Similarly, if brain tissue is irritated,

inflamed or infected below the frontal lobe, it will alter a person’s

personality. So why should you care? Again, the brain is probably the most

sensitive

organ in terms of irregularities. If you deprive it of glucose or oxygen

for minutes you are dead, but many muscles can last hours.

 

Therefore, I believe the brain is the most sensitive organ to Lyme,

Babesia, Bartonella and mold biotoxins. If the brain is only slightly infected

or

inflamed your behaviors might be seen as “crazy†or “eccentric.†Sloppy

and simplistic physicians will not see that your interpersonal errors are

merely another symptom, much like a rash. You are never the person who has

an infected brain or one filled with inflammation. Only fools would consider

the “true you†as the person seen on Halloween night.

 

Common Frontal Brain Signs

 

**Flaky** & **Spacey**

 

Kim is called " flaky " because she is regularly distracted. She was not

that way until she moved to Long Island at the age of twenty-four. She cannot

have ADD or ADHD even if she has some behaviors that show troubles with

focus and impulsivity, because it does not start in adulthood. Her basement

was found to have three species of toxic mold. After a top remediation she

was normal after four months of mold biotoxin treatment. We thought her

troubles were residual Lyme, but repeated tests over a year at three labs did

not show any residue of Lyme.

 

**Clueless** About Self Health

 

Ed is a respected engineer with a home near deer walkways and rarely,

mice. The neighbor's horse gets two shots a year for " Lyme. " A man a few blocks

away died of an aneurysm two years ago. Ed's daughter has an unusual arm

tingling problem. When someone mentioned he might consider being tested by a

progressive lab like IGeneX for Lyme, he saw no need. He gets " regular

yearly exams and lab work, takes nutrients, and exercises. "

 

A year later a child down the street had a seizure and was diagnosed with

Lyme. Ed's dog was also diagnosed with Lyme in a routine screening test. He

still sees no need for his own testing. He feels " fine. " Why would a very

smart man, who prepares for everything in his business, be unable to

connect his many risks of Lyme disease and get a $190 test? He has medical

insight impairment.

 

Mark is a physician who has read hundreds of pages on chronic untreated

Lyme and the biotoxins Lyme leaves after it is dead. He knows he has had the

illness at least twenty years. He does a couple months of antibiotics and

then stops talking to his physician. He also stops taking cholestyramine to

bind up the Lyme toxins. Without thinking, he drifts into a state of

non-reflection and non-treatment. Why? His ability to evaluate himself, or look

at himself, is impaired. Mark also is positive for Bartonella based on a

blood smear showing Bartonella attached to the outside of his red blood cells.

He would only do this after I agreed to pay for his lab. His blood looks

similar to this sample below.

 

Decreased Productivity

 

Linda has been running her household and a part-time job for five years.

In the last two years, very slowly, she has been finding her " to do " list

harder. She has new trouble completing a complex task, i.e., carrying it from

“a†to “z.†She has Babesia and Lyme.

 

The Babesia testing took a long time to have done because it was low on

her “to-do†list. Her blood looks approximately like this sample below.

Obviously she has decreased productivity. This insight is outside her awareness

due to Babesia (or Lyme disease). All the cells that appear to have a

nucleus are actually showing parasitic Babesia inside the cells. (Babesia Slide

compliments of Dr. S. Fry)

 

Impulsivity

 

Michelle has been arguing with her husband a lot this year. She spends so

much money on clothes, crafts, furniture, and antiques that he says it

seems she wants him to work to death. She feels guilty at times, and does not

know why she spends as she does. Her brother " acts out " with drinking and

marijuana. He has wanted to cut back on both, but finds it very challenging.

He has tried NA and AA, but finds it hard to attend in a sustained manner.

 

Tom struggles with anger and since his visit to his friend's home in

Harrisburg, PA on a hunting trip in the surrounding counties; he finds he " goes

off " on his wife in a way that scares her. She is fairly stunned that his

drive to achieve has turned into unhealthy work hours. He shows unusual

hostility at modest frustrations after long work hours. He curses, yells and

throws things. " He never did this before, " she reports. His tests came back

positive for Lyme and Bartonella.

 

Lynn loves her husband. He works hard, and she knows he is trying to find

them a better life. She is frustrated with her life and yet is unable to

explain why. She has traditional morals, but ends up sleeping with the local

pharmacist. She asks, " What was I thinking? " She reported having a

bulls-eye rash when she was nineteen, and being treated only two weeks with a

low

dose antibiotic. She has mild major depression, and she is the only one to

have this problem in her blood line.

 

Rigidity to New Ideas, Changes, Demands on Time

 

Anthony is a bright man, and he has " always been open to new ideas. "

Recently, he has had worsening pain in his knees and shoulder. He used to play

different sports, which caused some injury to these joints. When he

mentioned that they were originally from New Jersey, I mentioned Lyme, which

has

enzymes to dissolve cartilage and can affect bones. He rolled his eyes when I

mentioned this, and yet tried to not let me see.

 

I mentioned to him that Lyme could make any area of body weakness worse.

(He kept forgetting this point in our conversations. I guess his joints are

somehow affecting his memory?) He mentioned he had been to see Dr. Robins

and the prestigious Dr. Smith, and if " I had Lyme I am sure they would have

checked for it. " I asked him when very over worked surgeons had the " free

time " to read about cutting-edge tick illness disease material. The

unwillingness to even consider my comments a possibility shows frontal

rigidity. He

refused testing.

 

Mark has been having some chest tightness and depression for many years.

He was hospitalized twenty-three years ago for a very high fever. He was

given antibiotics for an " unidentified infection " and after twelve days was

released. Yet he had residual fatigue, depression and anxiety. He has seen

over thirty different physicians in six states, trying to find a cause for

his emotional trouble.

 

When his labs came back he was positive for Lyme, Erhlichia and

Bartonella. Ticks, especially poppy-seed sized ticks, commonly carry these

three

infections. He also showed high body inflammation (a high MMP-9 and a low VIP),

and HLA genes that showed he was very mold susceptible to mold biotoxins.

He said over ten times, over and over again in the months that followed, " I

just cannot believe my respected doctors all missed these medical

problems. " He was treated with four different antibiotics; then Actos to cool

down

his inflammation genes, and cholestyramine to remove the Lyme and indoor

mold biotoxins.

 

He is better every few weeks and is improved 80%. He is off three of his

psychiatric medications and the other two are markedly more effective. He

was agitated and suicidal when I first met him, now he is only merely

occasionally bored. He finally understands he was ill and it was impacting his

brain.

 

Narcissism and Profound Self-Centered Thinking

 

Alice complains routinely. She hijacks conversations to talk about

herself. When you talk with her you sense she is not connecting–you could

just as

easily be a chair. She was diagnosed with Lyme by IGeneX, had a number of

signs and symptoms of Lyme, and had a SPECT scan consistent with Lyme. On a

heavy metal challenge she showed elevated arsenic and lead. A home water

test by Doctor's Data found both metals elevated in the well water. After

treatment, she slowly had a personality shift. Her ability to care and connect

is clearly improved. She believes both the infections and metals

undermined her brain function and altered her personality.

 

Processing Trauma Pam’s husband cheated on her during their early years of

marriage. She is married over 30 years and talks about it like it was

yesterday. I have no evidence that he has violated his vows since those early

years when he was an alcoholic. They have had eight years of therapy, but

the pain of the betrayal has not been " metabolized. " Both are IGeneX positive

for Lyme and she is also positive for Bartonella. She had a bulls-eye Lyme

rash in the 80's and two years ago. After full treatment for the

Bartonella and the Lyme, she is finding it easier to think of her marriage as

having

a fresh start. She is no longer stuck on problems from many years ago.

 

Excess Irritability Tom has slowly become more hostile over the last

fifteen years. He scares his wife with his temper. She reports at times that he

" shorts out. " He is unsettled if faced with more than one topic or activity

at a time. Occasionally, modest sounds, sunlight or people talking all at

once anger him. Often their children speak simultaneously–it seems to cut

him with an invisible knife. So he yells at them.

 

He is very hostile at the end of a work week, and seems thin-skinned, with

little emotional reserve for the weekend. He improved for four months with

a new generation antidepressant and an anxiety medication, but dose

increases did not regain his improvement. He was PCR Bartonella positive on his

third test at Medical Diagnostic Laboratory and had a positive Western Blot

with IGeneX. After treatment, his wife and older daughter report that he is

75-80% improved in his mood. He opted to stay on both his antidepressant

and anxiety medications, but at 50% of the initial required dose.

 

Eccentric Personalities

 

Doug is called " unusual " by his loved ones, and is despised by many people

in his company. He is hard to understand. He is clearly self-centered, but

something else is present. He assumes others in the company and community

would do him ill. He does not seem to care for anyone but his wife and

kids. He is smart, but some of his activities are fairly bizarre. He takes

credit for projects obviously designed by others. He hides behind corners to

listen to other employees. He feels he has wisdom on medical matters that he

has not even studied. His four daughters are all Lyme positive and one had

a bulls-eye rash sixteen years ago. He refuses any testing.

 

Road Runner

 

Ellen was always a vibrant person, but in the last four years she seems

wired and unusually intense. Her personality is like a fire hose, and she is

uncomfortable unless she is moving and doing. She has no depressive

restlessness or anxiety. She is most comfortable doing fifteen things at once,

and

living frenetically. She is Lyme positive along with another member of her

household. She has been called, " hypomanic " and " an overwhelming

personality, " but she has no insight into this increased eccentric energy, and

avoids antibiotic treatment or other respected Lyme treatments.

 

Forgetful

 

Barbara jokes about her memory and about her " age. " She is only forty-six.

Her mother has a better memory! While memory is related to many parts of

the brain, the frontal lobes are also included. She is Lyme and Babesia

positive.

 

Organization Extremes

 

Tony is a computer tech who has always liked a clean home. Yet two years

ago after a fishing trip to upper New York State, his housemate and friends

noticed he gradually became unsettled with slight " disorder. " Changes that

bother him more include a plate left out, a bill paid too close to the due

date, unexpected modest changes to his budget, and car cleanliness. He was

found to be positive for Lyme, Bartonella and Erhlichia.

 

Marianne's home has slowly become very sloppy and disorganized. She lives

alone, since no one has wanted to live in such a messy home. In past years

she has managed different businesses, and so clearly this is a lost

ability. She is Lyme and Babesia positive, in addition to having regular

exposure

to outdoor water with toxic algae. After treatment with antibiotics, Actos

and cholestyramine, and another short-term anti-inflammation agent, along

with removal from her water exposure, she eventually could manage her home,

bills and life better.

 

Regressed Feelings & Thoughts

 

*Kimberly has slowly been feeling a need to be closer to her family and

especially her mother for reasons she does not understand. She finds a deeper

need for affection, " being heard " and time alone with her mother. Nothing

in her life circumstances seems sufficient to explain this change. She

feels she has become too " clingy " with her mother and a few select friends. She

is Lyme positive.

 

Kevin used to be moderately open-minded, but now he seems to think in

caricatures. People are smart or stupid, good or bad, mature or childish, black

or white. People are for him or against him. You either agree with him or

you are an “idiot.†He is Lyme and Erhlichia positive, in addition to

having exposure to indoor toxic mold in his second home in the mountains.

 

Dead Creativity

 

Lisa has a good sense of humor and likes to design flower beds. She also

is an exceptional dog breeder. Over the past years she has become less

spontaneous. She might think of a quip, but by the time she gets it out, the

timing is past. She cannot think and speak as fast as previous years. She

occasionally plants a few plants, but she has gone from annuals to

perennials–

she doubts she will have the drive to do even those next year. She has asked

her niece to handle the breeding strategy, and tells herself this is

because of her niece's experience. But her niece does not have these gifts.

Lisa

is Lyme and Babesia positive. A “friend†considers her “too withdrawnâ€

and ignores her medical findings as having no credibility.

 

This list is not complete. Yet hopefully it will help loved ones see that

areas of residual character trouble can have a medical foundation. It is

hoped this list will help your family, parents, siblings, adult children and

close friends expand their discernment of tick and flea-borne infections

and indoor mold toxins. The latter are in 30% of USA structures.

 

Further, this material is written so that people will notice neurological

and psychiatric signs and to " see themselves. " Since the brain is the most

sensitive organ, it is often the first place to show signs or symptoms of

these illnesses. Often the first medical symptom of tick and flea infections

is a decreased insight. Earlier diagnosis due to an improved insight means

a better outcome for you if you are infected, and your loved ones who are

infected, if treatment is started promptly.

 

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