Re: Re: Thyroid

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Referring clients to their doctors for thyroid levels may prove to be beneficial, especially since the number of women with undiagnosed Hoshimoto's disease is 1 in every 10. Some studies are suggesting that the number may now be closer to 1 in every 8! Hoshimoto's is an autoimmune disease that attacks the thyroid and eventually burns it out and the person then becomes hypothyroid. New studies show that treating Hoshimoto's with low dose thyroid medication before the person has abnormal labs will help prevent them from becoming hypothyroid. This also helps to decrease cholesteral levels, which are usually higher in this population, which hopefully will reduce the rate of heart attacks.

Just to take it a step further:

thyroid abnormalities are found in up to 49% of psychotic and depressed patients on admission, whereby the level of impaired thyroid function correlates with the severity of illness.

It is good practice to understand that:

Patients diagnosed with mental illnesses (especially those with a mood component) are more likely to have involvement of a thyroid hormone imbalance than the general population. Patients with thyroid disturbance and psychiatric symptoms are most often diagnosed with one of the following:

atypical depression (which may present as dysthymia)

bipolar spectrum syndrome (including manic-depression, mixed mania, bipolar depression, rapid-cycling bipolar disorder, cyclothymia, and premenstrual syndromes)

borderline personality disorder

psychotic disorder (typically paranoid psychosis)

Psychiatric symptoms of hypothyroidism can include psychosis, depression, mood instability, mania, anxiety, hypersomnia, apathy, anergia, impaired memory, psychomotor slowing, and attentional problems. Other symptoms (such as hypersomnia and lethargy), as well as laboratory findings such as hypercholesterolemia, galactorrhea, hyperprolactinemia, menstrual irregularities, and sexual dysfunction could be misconstrued as resulting from the psychotropic medications being given to alleviate the psychiatric symptoms.

Regards,

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Hi guys, there is a correlation between thyroid problems and schizophrenia, which can be helped by introducing thyroid medication.If you visit Harry 's web site you can download his ebook on schizophenia for free, it is a well researched and written book, easy to read and lots of information for psychologists and thers working in this field.http://www.hdfoster.com/index.html#Publicationspacman

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Clarification: Those are female to male ratio's 10:1 and 8:1

..1 - 5% of the Western Population

Sorry for the confusion

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Referring clients to their doctors for thyroid levels may prove to be beneficial, especially since the number of women with undiagnosed Hoshimoto's disease is 1 in every 10. Some studies are suggesting that the number may now be closer to 1 in every 8! Hoshimoto's is an autoimmune disease that attacks the thyroid and eventually burns it out and the person then becomes hypothyroid. New studies show that treating Hoshimoto's with low dose thyroid medication before the person has abnormal labs will help prevent them from becoming hypothyroid. This also helps to decrease cholesteral levels, which are usually higher in this population, which hopefully will reduce the rate of heart attacks.

Just to take it a step further:

thyroid abnormalities are found in up to 49% of psychotic and depressed patients on admission, whereby the level of impaired thyroid function correlates with the severity of illness.

It is good practice to understand that:

Patients diagnosed with mental illnesses (especially those with a mood component) are more likely to have involvement of a thyroid hormone imbalance than the general population. Patients with thyroid disturbance and psychiatric symptoms are most often diagnosed with one of the following:

atypical depression (which may present as dysthymia)

bipolar spectrum syndrome (including manic-depression, mixed mania, bipolar depression, rapid-cycling bipolar disorder, cyclothymia, and premenstrual syndromes)

borderline personality disorder

psychotic disorder (typically paranoid psychosis)

Psychiatric symptoms of hypothyroidism can include psychosis, depression, mood instability, mania, anxiety, hypersomnia, apathy, anergia, impaired memory, psychomotor slowing, and attentional problems. Other symptoms (such as hypersomnia and lethargy), as well as laboratory findings such as hypercholesterolemia, galactorrhea, hyperprolactinemia, menstrual irregularities, and sexual dysfunction could be misconstrued as resulting from the psychotropic medications being given to alleviate the psychiatric symptoms.

Regards,

-------------- Original message from pac pac <pac_aussie.au>: --------------

Hi guys, there is a correlation between thyroid problems and schizophrenia, which can be helped by introducing thyroid medication.If you visit Harry 's web site you can download his ebook on schizophenia for free, it is a well researched and written book, easy to read and lots of information for psychologists and thers working in this field.http://www.hdfoster.com/index.html#Publicationspacman

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Thank you for such an informative email. It is very frustrating to think so many are treated for severe issues when all the drugs are doing is covering up the symptoms rather than helping the cause of the problems. We have been through the wringer with my kids thyroid problems not being diagnosed for so many years.

Glad you are on the right track now.

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-------------- Original message -------------- From: nts1st@...

Referring clients to their doctors for thyroid levels may prove to be beneficial, especially since the number of women with undiagnosed Hoshimoto's disease is 1 in every 10. Some studies are suggesting that the number may now be closer to 1 in every 8! Hoshimoto's is an autoimmune disease that attacks the thyroid and eventually burns it out and the person then becomes hypothyroid. New studies show that treating Hoshimoto's with low dose thyroid medication before the person has abnormal labs will help prevent them from becoming hypothyroid. This also helps to decrease cholesteral levels, which are usually higher in this population, which hopefully will reduce the rate of heart attacks.

Just to take it a step further:

thyroid abnormalities are found in up to 49% of psychotic and depressed patients on admission, whereby the level of impaired thyroid function correlates with the severity of illness.

It is good practice to understand that:

Patients diagnosed with mental illnesses (especially those with a mood component) are more likely to have involvement of a thyroid hormone imbalance than the general population. Patients with thyroid disturbance and psychiatric symptoms are most often diagnosed with one of the following:

atypical depression (which may present as dysthymia)

bipolar spectrum syndrome (including manic-depression, mixed mania, bipolar depression, rapid-cycling bipolar disorder, cyclothymia, and premenstrual syndromes)

borderline personality disorder

psychotic disorder (typically paranoid psychosis)

Psychiatric symptoms of hypothyroidism can include psychosis, depression, mood instability, mania, anxiety, hypersomnia, apathy, anergia, impaired memory, psychomotor slowing, and attentional problems. Other symptoms (such as hypersomnia and lethargy), as well as laboratory findings such as hypercholesterolemia, galactorrhea, hyperprolactinemia, menstrual irregularities, and sexual dysfunction could be misconstrued as resulting from the psychotropic medications being given to alleviate the psychiatric symptoms.

Regards,

-------------- Original message from pac pac <pac_aussie.au>: --------------

Hi guys, there is a correlation between thyroid problems and schizophrenia, which can be helped by introducing thyroid medication.If you visit Harry 's web site you can download his ebook on schizophenia for free, it is a well researched and written book, easy to read and lots of information for psychologists and thers working in this field.http://www.hdfoster.com/index.html#Publicationspacman

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