Re: Frustration with the lack of understanding of how thyroid causes mental illness

[Guest guest]

You could consider facilitating a local support group sharing the knowledge you

have learnt with others in your area.

I donated thyroid books (ie Dr Peatfields) to the local library as not everyone

has access to the net.

You can print out the poster on the webpage and find approved public places to

display it.

I have found when sitting in the shopping mall, the stranger who comes and sits

next to me usually has a thyroid problem and I end up scribbling notes on

tidderly bits of paper about blood tests and how to read them.

F

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> Is it just me or do others find it frustrating and upsetting when watching a

program on TV that talks about mental illness or eating disorders etc (for

example, very technical and medically educated person says in a patronising tone

'we have found a gene that causes it but we don't know what it controls' - 'we

know it's a chemical imbalance in the brain, we just don't know which chemical'

etc) and then you see the 'mentally ill' people that are interviewed as examples

and they all have visible signs of undiagnosed or under-treated hypothyrodism as

well as the mental symptoms they speak about? For example - extremely thin or no

outer eyebrows.

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> I'm just sitting here in Denmark watching this British program on identical

twins on the TV - it's talking about how two twins are often subject to the same

types of medical conditions. In one of the sets of Australian twins one has

ended up with major depression and suicidal tendancies and the other with

anorexia that almost resulted in death. The first had almost no eyebrows at all,

she seemed to be drawing them on (I see that a lot these days!) and hated they

way she looked and therefore hid behind her makeup and the other had obviously

thinning outer eyebrows (made even more obvious by their darkness). At least one

of them was still struggling with her mental illness and talked of not wanting

to get out of bed in the morning and not being able to look in the mirror before

taking control of the way she looked (with makeup, I guess).

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> Alana

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[Guest guest]

I know how you feel....exactly. There are so many mis-diagnosis now and the

people who don't take charge of their own health by joining support groups or

signing up for natural news blog posts, etc. are left out in the cold. We can

only do what we can do.

I talk to people about high blood pressure and magnesium all the time hoping

they will discuss it with their physicans but the DRs dismiss the info because

big pharma pays them well to keep the patients on hypertension meds that only

kill them.

I do know that people who do find groups like Sheila's are being guided

here....I can light a candle and ask that more souls will find their way. At

some point, it's out of our hands.

Do what you can, let the Universe handle the rest and have faith that people

will listen when they get *the call.* :0)

Cheers,

JOT

[Guest guest]

ALANA - WILL YOU TRY TO REMEMBER TO DELETE MESSAGES PREVIOUSLY READ BEFORE

CLICKING 'SEND' AND LEAVE JUST A SMALL PORTION OF WHAT YOU ARE RESPONDING TO

PLEASE? LUV- SHEILA

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Thanks F - there are some good ideas there.

Alana

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> You could consider facilitating a local support group sharing the knowledge

you have learnt with others in your area.

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> I donated thyroid books (ie Dr Peatfields) to the local library as not

everyone has access to the net.

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[Guest guest]

I like the idea that people will be guided towards the right help when they are

ready. It explains why people close to you that have obvious signs of

hypothyroidism/adrenal fatigue or actually already have it and are obviously

being under-treated, and suffering terribly because of it, don't follow through

when you give them the information they need to get properly diagnosed and

treated for it.

Thanks for your thoughts on the matter.

Alana

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> I know how you feel....exactly. There are so many mis-diagnosis now and the

people who don't take charge of their own health by joining support groups or

signing up for natural news blog posts, etc. are left out in the cold. We can

only do what we can do.

>

> I talk to people about high blood pressure and magnesium all the time hoping

they will discuss it with their physicans but the DRs dismiss the info because

big pharma pays them well to keep the patients on hypertension meds that only

kill them.

>

> I do know that people who do find groups like Sheila's are being guided

here....I can light a candle and ask that more souls will find their way. At

some point, it's out of our hands.

>

> Do what you can, let the Universe handle the rest and have faith that people

will listen when they get *the call.* :0)

>

> Cheers,

> JOT

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