Re: my 1st post

January 14, 2006

<<If the doctors are right and this is a chemical imbalance in my brain

that requires medications - is there a safe one to take? Is there a

non-prescription approach to regulate serotonin reuptake? please

help!>>

The doctors are dead wrong.

There is an imbalance, but it isn't in your brain, and it doesn't

require toxic substances that manipulate your neurotransmitters.

I don't know where they get off telling people that neurotransmitters

only work in the brain, anyhow! Neurotransmitters work throughout the

body. Anyplace a nerve impulse has to cross a synapse,

neurotransmitters are there to do the job. That's why these drugs

have so many weird effects throughout the body--they affect everything

the body does. If nerves are involved, neurotransmitters are

involved.

YOU NEED NUTRIENTS!! That is is the only thing that will really help

your brain and body heal from using these drugs and then from what

sounds like a too-rapid withdrawal.

You are not experiencing depression, you are experiencing withdrawal.

This may help you cope with the feeling. It's an emotional sympom of

a physiological malfunction.

I encourage you to schedule a consult with to put together a

personalized protocol to get your healing on the right track.

In the meantime, adjust your diet in accordance with Eating for

Recovery (in the Files), and get started with some basic supplements

(in the Basic Healing Protocol, also in the Files).

I'm really glad you spoke up! There IS help for this. You WILL feel

better! Just keep telling yourself it's all from the wothdrawal, get

started with diet and supplements (and gentle exercise also) and hang

in there!

Regards,

Kim

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January 14, 2006

I wanted to add, for ANYONE who is reading this, that taking certain

herbs or supplements designed to increase serotonin is NOT a good

thing to do in withdrawal or in early recovery. Most people are

unable to process serotonin properly after being on these drugs and

end up with excess, which makes them feel terrible!! It actually

causes more harm to do this.

So get rid of the whole idea that you need to mess with your

neurotransmitters in some direct way in order to heal your emotional

symptoms. It's a faulty premise. Start with the foundational

nutrition, and the neurotransmitters (and everything else) will fall

into place as Nature intended.

Kim