Re: Re: Kitty fat

[Guest guest]

And the good news is that once the brain/thinking/

emotions heal, then the rest of the body heals too. It all starts in the

mind...the thoughts. Thoughts become things. Thoughts manifest in our reality as

our " life " .

Caroline

From: nc2406@...

What I would tell you is that the healing from the mental symptoms is a

sometimes slow one...sometimes rocky one....but a steady one. I am in my 10th

month of treatment, and it is rare now for me to feel any anxiety, panic,

depression. That was not true in my 5th month. Each month has seen gains in

the

amount of time that month that I have been free from psychiatric symptoms.

By rocky one...I mean this. In the beginning, I felt like a metronome (one

of those things piano users use to keep the rhythm..it goes back and forth,

back and forth, back and forth). And that's how I would sometimes feel. Like

this: I'm okay. I'm not okay. I'm okay again. All in the space of 5

minutes...my mood and thoughts could fluctuate that fast.

The good thing was that I knew that it was my brain healing from the effects

of not having enough thyroid hormone. In one book I read about the mind

effects of hypo, it talks about how the brain has been " jumbled " from lack of

thyroid hormone. And it takes a while for it to settle back down and run

smoothly.

Just like with the other parts of the body, the brain has to adjust to having

what it needs. And I think that the brain even gets " remapped " a bit in the

negative/depressive/etc. thinking from brain hypo...and that it takes a while

for things to get back to normal. And that having the needed resources

(enough thyroid hormone for the brain), one has to then do a bit of postitive

thinking on one's own to undo the some of the brain damage. And it is brain

damage...just like damage to the body from hypo.

But the brain can heal. It may go fast for your daughter...or it may go slow

and steady like me. The brain is complex...so give it time. And so just

have her remember that. That each month should get better.

I am going to send you a Word document I put together about that tells a bit

about the psychiatric symptoms...and also has some good links.

Cindi