Val Corzine Executive Director Orchid Mental Health Legal Advocacy of Colorado
Out there on that neuro-diversity spectrum

Like a lot people with mental health concerns, I also have more recognized auto-immune concerns, specifically thyroid concerns.

I was interested to see in the list of articles that “osteoporosis” is now being considered for possible inclusion as as an auto-immune disease.

Like a lot of older, short women — I have issues with that, too.

So if one has had the experience of one’s cognitive functions essentially breaking down — and I hope you never do — it’s clear to those around you and ultimately to yourself that something is going on — but what that something is — isn’t very clear.

So we just give it our best guess. Our guesses have been getting better — BUT still . . . they can miss the mark rather dramatically.

AND that is really the spark or the raging wildfire for the anti-psychiatry movement.

I really do believe in science. AND I think the answer for inadequate science is better science — and listening to people.

Our mental health system costs a helluva lot for a lot of reasons, one of those is that it is just not based on the lastest science or the best treatments for what is essentially in many cases an immune disorder.

“You can’t separate the mind from the body,” said Prof Sir Robert Lechler, President of the Academy of Medical Sciences.

“The immune system does produce behaviour. You’re not just a little bit miserable if you’ve got a long term condition, there is a real mechanistic connection between the mind, the nervous system and the immune system.

“We have a separation. Mental healthcare is delivered by mental health professionals, psychiatrists, mental health nurses and so on, often in separate premises from where physical health care is delivered and that is simply wrong and we need to find ways to ever more closely integrate and train amphibious healthcare professionals who can straddle this divide.”

“Research has also shown that people who have suffered severe emotional trauma in their past have inflammatory markers in their body, suggesting their immune system is constantly firing, as if always on guard against abuse.”

One promising treatment for depression on the horizon is the use of electrical stimulation to change the signals between the brain and the immune system.

Prof Kevin Tracey, President and CEO, of the US Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, discovered that the brain controls production of a deadly inflammatory chemical called TNF, which if released in high doses can be fatal, causing people to, literally, die of shock.

He has recently developed a electrical device which reproduces the connection and switches off the chemical. Three quarters of patients with rheumatoid arthritis recovered following trials.

“This is the tip of the iceberg of a new field called bio-electric medicine,” he said.

“This is a new way of thinking about medicine. We’re using electrons to replace drugs. This will not replace all drugs. But there will be many drugs that are either too expensive, too toxic which may be replaced by these devices.”​

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/
2017/09/08/depression-physical-
illness-could-treated-anti-inflammatory/

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