Re: Pyscholgoy Today~ Lymes Disease article

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Well, I finally got around to reading this Magazine that I bought on

Vacation!

This is a really good article about the author, Pamela Weintraub's family

who all contracted Lymes disease while living in Westchester County, NY.

Ms Weintraub is also the Senior Ed. at Discover Magazine

I loved the comment from the Psychiatrist Sherry Holland--from Pennsylvania

-- stating the worst thing a DR can tell a

patient with Lyme's is its all in your head!

Many commit suicide when told this -- with no hope or help insight.

DR Holland gets a referral at least once a week for a patient who has

Lymes disease -in Bucks county because they

are having Panic Attacks, hallucinations, obsessive - compulsive disorder,

and depression. They are in agony, not only neuropsychiatiatric pain but

physical pain as well.

Many times thought to be just hypochondriac's.

Many DR's fall to notice the patient has encephalographic but Physicians who

wouldn't know a case of encephalographic if they fell over it.

They are physically sick, but are blamed by doctors who say:

You belong to a " cult " if you think you have " Lyme " or you look okay to me.

The symptoms sound a lot like some symptoms autistic children could have.

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