<i>When penicillin was first used to treat syphilis, thousands of cured schizophrenics were released from mental asylums.</i><p><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/diseases-mind-133263" rel="nofollow">https://www.newsweek.com/diseases-mind-133263</a><p>I've apparently submitted this article three times, the last time 18 days ago. It's never gotten traction.<p>I have a long history of viewing mood issues and the like as somatopsychic side effects of medical issues. I tend to ask my sciency son to "Look up X" when I'm having an issue. I'm talented at asking the right questions. He's talented at getting back to me within an hour with the info I need, plus supporting links. Then I typically go eat a thing and stop being such a fruitcake.<p>Some things I've done:<p>Consumed foods containing rosemary or sage to calm extreme anxiety because I was clear it was brought on by withdrawal.<p>Consumed beef with potatoes to mediate the salt-lithium connection and prevent both woke bi-polar like mood swings and suicidal tendencies.<p>Consumed oranges for the vitamin c to put a stop to out of the blue rage.<p>See also:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16607422#16608139" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16607422#16608139</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16140867" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16140867</a>
Thoughtbytes:<p>> a growing body of literature suggesting that the immune system is involved in psychiatric disorders from depression to bipolar disorder<p>> Austrian physician Julius Wagner-Jauregg developed a method of deliberate infection of psychiatric patients with malaria to induce fever. Some of his patients died from the treatment, but many others recovered. He won a Nobel Prize in 1927.
I've long suspected that my depression & OCD were caused by some immune response. It all started very suddenly when I had a very bad illness. Unfortunately I have yet to find a doctor that believes me and is willing to do anything other than giving me the standard medications.
Reminds me of the surprising cause of narcolepsy - not anything sleep cycle related, energetic as one might expect but auto-immune causing the body to periodically attack its own wakefulness hormones producers.<p>Unfortunately all of our immune system tools are very coarse even when doing something groundbreaking as cancer immunotherapy which is basically farming ones we know attack the cancer and reinserting them - very labor intensive for something individualized with highly educated workers.<p>It almost makes one wish for reverse vaccination to specify things as harmless - until you realize how horribly exploitable it would be by nature - let alone anybody twisted enough to use it for biological weaponry.
Something I ran across in a newsletter about medical research recently was that a doctor examining patients with treatment-resistant depression determined that there were (treatable) metabolic abnormalities apparent in cerebrospinal fluid. Normally, blood tests are all that is done to rule out such things, but that may not show the problem.
Just a friendly reminder not to get medical advice from anonymous strangers on the internet. There are some pretty serious interventions described in the comments below as things you could try at home.