This below was just posted in the Facebook group Adrenal Fatigue Recovery and everyone agreed and added more info. Not one person gave the usual defenses I see on here for the medical model of “mental illness” and most of them put it in quotes. So, yeah, there are groups of people doing their own research, taking back their power, taking their health back from pharma, and helping one another to heal.
If you join this group (linked above), you’ll enjoy reading this whole thread. I’ve actually been learning a lot about “alternative” health from some of these groups, and there’s not much of the kind of hype and theoretical arguing as in the “mental health” groups.
Here’s what was posted followed by a stream of supportive comments:
How many of you believe that a serotonin deficiency causes mental illness? Do any of you believe that it was made up by big pharma to sell drugs? Do you believe that most of the symptoms of so called depression are actually related to thyroid, AF, candida, gut issues, vitamin/mineral deficiencies? Maybe in some cases it’s stressful life events which the body is responding to accordingly. Maybe it’s stages of grief. I personally don’t believe in the one chemical brain imbalance and I get so annoyed at the way society has viewed invisible illnesses. I am so sad about all the stories I have read on here for the last year about doctors just telling us all that we have depression or that we are crazy for believing or knowing that we have AF and other related conditions.
I’ve been following posts in this group as well as Magnesium and Iodine Facebook groups and have gotten some information that has been helping me heal my thyroid, adrenals and other health issues. Like all information online and elsewhere, it is necessary to be discerning, to listen to your own body and wisdom and sometimes to try things out slowly and carefully and see how they work for you.
I tend towards low thyroid, adrenal fatigue, coldness, low blood pressure and deficiency, so please keep these things in mind when you read my steps below.
The steps I’ve been taking recently that have helped have been:
-More seaweed (I eat dulse and nori straight, cook kombu and kelp with beans or vegetables and add kelp powder and dulse flakes to any meal as condiments)
-More himalayan sea salt/Real Salt or unrefined sea salt, including putting it in my water
-drinking well water as much as possible
-grass fed butter
-organic coconut oil
-pastured eggs
-extra Vitamin C
-Magnesium oil sprayed on my body as well as Magnesium supplements orally
-Vitamin D
-Getting sunlight as much as possible
-Going to bed early
Most of these are practices I have been doing for some time, so it can be hard to know what makes a difference and what is doing what, but I did notice adding in more seaweed and black foods made my thyroid feel stronger and I started to sleep through the night more often. For me, when my thyroid is stronger, I swallow more and my swallow feels stronger. Thyroid health is connected with adrenal health, and a lot of these things are interlinked.
These Facebook groups (linked above) have been helpful for me because one of my biggest problems with health practices is that I do them for awhile and then forget and stop doing some things that were really working. So by joining these groups, I see little reminders and suggestions from other people in my Facebook feed and it has been helping me to stay on track with my health.
Wishing you healing and I hope this post has been inspiring. I know these things can be overwhelming and it can feel like there is too much to do and it’s all so expensive. The cool thing about these groups is that people get that and are usually supportive and can sometimes have low cost or even free ideas. You can post your own questions or frustrations in them and some of the participants are truly knowledgeable.
Most of all I am excited about an era of community medicine, where we the people are educating, inspiring, encouraging and supporting one another with an abundance of ideas and options, all by personal choice (of course there is still the issue of access). I haven’t gotten that in too many doctors offices.