Re: Success with Derealization! / DP definition

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Kathleen:

I think it is a disgrace to the medical profession that issues are labeled

" psychological " and then those people are never tested for physical reasons.

There was a recent post about a study showing the cortisol-derealization link.

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/RT3_T3/message/43306

( " mzjaku " , thanks again for posting this.)

Years ago I was WAY overtreated for depression. Turns out I had Lyme disease,

pernicious anemia, very low iron, and a host of other physical illnesses. Gee,

do you think that maybe I'd have been a lot less depressed if the physical

illnesses were appropriately treated?

Once when I was getting an IV, I happened to be sitting in the IV room next to a

nice lady who had been a psychiatric nurse for over 20 years. I asked her how

many problems which are labeled psychiatric, in her opinion, were primarily

physical in origin? She said " all of them " .

Margery

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> > > > I am posting this here and to the NTH Adreanl group since so many seem

to suffer from this debilitating condition, which I will abbreviate as DP (for

depersonalization, which is pretty much the same thing and most have both).

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> > > > Anyway, long story short, it went almost completely away once I

increased my HC. Unfortunately, I had to take a lot of HC due to my symptoms of

shakiness, trembling, feeling spaced out all the time, feeling like I was going

to " fade out. " None of which helps with the DP of course.

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> > > > Well, I started Florinef about 1 week ago and MY GOD, the DP is TOTALLY

GONE! In fact, I actually FLEW to Dallas and drove on the highway for 1 and 1/2

hours BY MYSELF! I stayed in a hotel by myself. :-) Yes, I had a few moments of

anxiety here and there and some spaciness, which I attribute to the stress of

traveling and how hot it was causing some salt loss, but overall, the trip went

off without a hitch and I'm home without a trace of DP left.

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> > > > I actually think the Florinef helped the DP. Why? I don't know for sure.

Maybe it's because Florinef helps with being spaced out or dizzy due to

electrolyte imbalances and those sorts of things really aggravate DP. Or maybe

it's just that ANY insufficiency of adrenal hormones leads to anxiety and

anxiety = DP. I truly believe that DP CANNOT exist if there is no anxiety.

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> > > > Anyway, for anyone suffering from this condition of DP, please hang in

there! And get those dern adrenals fixed. :-)

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> > > > Kathleen

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