Today, mental health conditions often diagnosed. Depression is very common and often treated with antidepressants.
He attention deficit disorder is diagnosed more often, frequently prescribed stimulant. Bipolar disorder is a common mental health diagnosis with medications commonly prescribed.
I have been a board-certified psychiatrist for the last twenty years. My current observations are based on years of experience of talking to people diagnosed with these conditions.
I remember several years ago wondering why I was asked to prescribe medication to children eating fast food and lots of candy. How do I know if these children had actually add or were their systems "stressed" the lack of nutrients?
I also wondered about the role of our sedentary lifestyle in the growing number of people with mental health problems. Children seem to watch hours of television and spend more time on computer games and video. However, when we make this a regular class setting we consider distracted.
But their brains are programmed to absorb stimuli of television and computers, since they were very young. So are they really distracted or have not yet been their learning circuits connected to traditional learning?
And as for adults with sedentary lifestyles, it seems logical that depression or mood disorder is a consequence.
Of course, many people with healthy lifestyles still suffer from depression, ADD and the like. But, are we adequately evaluate the role of lifestyle when we make our diagnosis and prescribe medication?Speaking to hundreds of families is a very humiliating process.
The more you get to know people unless you really understand. As a doctor, my dilemma was always, child or adult need this medicine? And all other variables that contribute to the lack of attention or other mental health problem addressed first?
Another area that is usually assessed in routine medical visits is that exposure to environmental toxins. As a conventional practitioner, I used to believe that a small number of people who have been particularly sensitive to the environment.
Pollution is everywhere. How can we not think that pollution affects our health and physical or mental well-being?
We tend to think that contamination of the gases in the air from cars or factories. That's true, but pollution is much more widespead than that. Plastic coating we use to feed our children contain toxins formula. The carpets are our babies crawling on are full of toxins.
How can we think that the constant to toxins, including mycotoxins, exposure and lack of nutrition will have no effect on the physical and emotional states of our children? And what about ours?
Last year, several colleagues and I published a study on the effects of nutritional supplementation in children with bipolar disorder. Of the 15 children, 14 showed significant improvement with more high quality nutritional supplements.
All children were prescribed psychotropic drugs. After six months of nutritional supplements, your ratings of side effects decreased from 45.9 to 3.6!
Clearly more scientific research in these areas is needed. But if you are on psychotropic medication, or have a child on psychotropic drugs, it seems prudent to do everything possible to minimize stress on your body. This includes eating as healthy as possible. Healthy cells make for a healthy body.
This also means that monitoring on the theme of environmental toxins. In reality, we are all exposed to toxins, more than ever. In addition, cleaning the body with supplements and fresh water quality becomes essential for maintaining health.
A proactive approach to mental health will go a long way towards restoring the balance and stability of the mind and emotions.
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