How do you deal with the depression?

[10meters]

Question: How do you deal with the depression?

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One subscriber wrote to ask me about how to deal with depression. I’m surprised many others haven’t brought up the subject. I find it hard to believe that anyone could have these parasites with little or no support from the medical establishment and not get depressed. Before I discovered the connection with the diet and freedom of symptoms for me in the mid 90’s I thought that these parasites would take me to an early grave—not that they still won’t, but it won’t be as early as I feared. The only thing that gave me a lift from my depression was to try something new which always resulted in an ultimate let down. Almost everything I tried helped for a few days which lifted my spirits and then the floor fell out from under me. I had no guidance and no one to look to for hope. Fortunately, a friend suggested a connection between diet and symptoms and even though I thought it a crazy idea, I was grabbing at straws. Ultimately, I found an old-timer doctor who added ORAP and since then zyprexa to the mix and life took on normalcy for nearly ten years—I even got married and had normal close relations. Then, after separation in early 04, I got recontaminated from stored clothing and my first thought was to end my life. Depression hit me like a cement block falling a hundred feet—just the idea of having to go back to stage one of the diet and give up ice cream, bananas, and some other goodies on Stage II of the diet, and go through disinfection of the house was enough to tempt me to end my life.

What I preach in my stress management programs is to flow with life rather than try to control it. When you try to control something, you give power to it. So rather than try to control depression or those thoughts of doom I allowed them in my space. Sure it’s nice when you can blame someone else, but “an article of clothing.” It was easy for me to get upset and angry with myself for having missed disinfecting that article and I did so. Again, I allowed that anger into my space without resisting it remembering the example I use all the time—crying over spilt milk (no benefit). End result—what’s done is done and I can wallow in it or look for creative options—a great plug for my creativity program. I don’t mean this to sound like an ad for any of my cd’s, I only know that there’s no future in being pessimistic.

So this is what I said to myself as I was driving home from my office, “I’m depressed, I hate this feeling and I’d like to flow with it, see this from another point of view, learn from it somehow (sounds stupid since I was itching from head to toe and desperate for a hot shower).

I always like to look for options (I said that before—can’t say it enough):

1. end my life
2. wallow in depression
3. discover more about the diet.
I choose the latter, took a hot shower, decontaminated everything with ammonia spray, and made an appointment with my doctor for zyprexa.

So, don’t fight depression. Instead, flow with it and look for options. Aim your brain for creative options to learn, benefit others, get beyond it and your creative self will come through for you. It’s like trying to remember someone’s name—the more you effort at it and fight not knowing, the more elusive the person’s name is, shortly after you say, “heck with it,” the name comes to you. When you experience the emotion—whatever it is, it disappears—it’s history. Not that it might not return, in which case you go through it and let it go again.

[Franky]

10meters depression is one of the major "symptoms" of this disease. Because of the lack of medical support, people become so stressed out from the lack of believe as well as just having the disease itself. It can become quite overwhelming. My friend became deeply depressed and almost died from maul nutrition, he would not eat a thing. Only when he started to get out of the mind funk did he start to improve his health mentally and physically.

[ladycolorado]

this i understand 10meters all too well. the agony, misery, and devatation, alenation, and loss which this disease causes is awful and VERY depressing. i remember my first phone consultation with dr. harvey, a key question he asked is "do you still cry easy?' i said no, he said "good, that means the swelling on the brain has gone down. not just inflamed joints but inflamed brain. he said "it is in your blood, it is in your brain" (morgellons disease). plus, on the careful balance of medicine he has given me, antibiotics, antiparisiticals and anti-tuberculosis drug (to fight the chlamydia pneumonia which is weak link in disease) and perodic bursts of mutiple pills of an antiparisitic drug, i feel TONS better, and i noted that was VERY weird, before medicine had very little sleep, and NO rem sleep, which is essential to healing. (you can look at sleep deprivation studies, folks go half crazy from no sleep, and also why used as a method of torture). plus neurotoxins pumped into our bodies. NO wonder we seem crazy and can become that way! but it is not us, really but the disease. syphillus was once thought to be a mental disorder and then eventually discovered was disease (std) was cured by antibiotics. your fate in olden times was to be locked up and helplessly feel ones brain rot away. isn't that how we feel at times with this horrid morgellons disease. i too have been depressed, so sad wanted to give up. but i can't , my kid finally coming home in 2 weeks, how much pain i have felt regarding that you guys, gee sent her out of environment to spare her what has happened to me. gosh have felt so guilty. i the beginning thought saved her, but very likely disease starting in ears. diet IS important, the worst thing IS processed sugar. STAY away from it like gasoline to a car! when first sick, ate so much chocolate junk, did not knowing what was doing was because disease loves it to take over and so instintively craved it to my detriment. yeah, my life FULL of rotten problems but dwelling in them only makes me sicker, so i distract myself from it. i do not ignore it but if can do nothing, what is the point of making myself weaker? listen to music like enigma, watch comedy, help folks. let the problem work in back of mind, or set aside for later. i will say, although diagnosed with no mental disorders, i would get very mad or cry at any stress. but with all of these factors, to know something likes to snack on us, like being the moss man in a steven king short story, who can blame us? but to give in is to let the evil disease win. cry vent, and remember the horrid awful attacks of disease will pass and that sometimes having a victory disease fights back. BUT WE WILL WIN! they have found a cure, but still in research phase but there WILL BE an end to this suffering. in cancer research, laughter IS the best medicine! to quote the movie patch adams, "in helping others i forget my own problems" and "in a moment of laughter (the paqtients) they forget their, pain, THEY HAVE NO PAIN. laughter bolsters the immune system, and produces endorphins the body's natural pain killers. this whole time i have had nothing for pain (boy that can stink) but ENDORPHINS ARE FREE< CAN BE PRODUCED IN HEATHY WAYS. the most exciting thing is in finding our cure they HAVE FOUND THE COMMON LINK CAUSING ALL DISEASE DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS? in being "mutants", our suffering is not for naught! we do not have to necessarily watch others wither away and die from diease, they might be cured or helped instead of a death sentence! they might not have to take evil drugs which do more harm then good. and those who fight us harder, all the greedy folks who would love to see us all on pshych meds, who would like to ssay we are imagining things WILL LOSE! because of us the "mutants" changed on a cellular level we are the "X-MEN" and i am storm and we shall kick morgellons butt in a big way! (LC).

[Kritters]

Sorry,
Too depressed to respond. (half kidding).

Depression is a side effect of this and Lyme and who else knows which other parasitic body snatching disease. I'm amazed at how I can't snap out of it or have the energy to even these days, but working on the mind over matter thingie.

tenmeters, I really appreciate all your information and input here.

hugs,
Kritters

[Lizette45]

Those are all great suggestions. I think that each one of us will come up with our own remedies for depression that work best. I try the thought changing method, remind myself of all of the good in my life and of those that have things worse than myself. Opening up to the people here-hiding nothing is also great therapy for those hard timees that we all experience. It's hard not to be depressed dealing with this thing that has turned our lives upside down/inside out-and yes-before this happened to me my temperment was much calmer and I was rational and only cried because of the normal things and times instead of several times a day. I am not myself because of the physical as well as emotional things that this and lyme etc does to you.

LOL