Not doing so good, so just a couple of links to articles today. First from Friday’s Salon, “Psych meds drove my son crazy.” And then an article from the New York Times that was all over the web last week that is mentioned in the above article–mostly about how doctors are in the pockets of pharmaceutical companies. These drugs hurt, maim and kill. Don’t we all deserve to know this before we “consent” to taking them? Most people never do until it’s too late.
I wish more people dared to try alternatives. What is so scary? Why is eating a good diet so hard?
My father is diabetic and all he eats is pasta. Years ago he was told if he changed his diet he might not need meds for his condition. I’m staying with him right now. I explained to him how products with refined flour or simply lots of grain is not good for diabetes. I said, you know, if you changed your diet you might not need your meds. His response, “my diet is what I like to eat.” By his tone it was clear that it was the end of the conversation.
I know most people will never try to heal themselves naturally and they will say that they’ve tried everything even when they haven’t. (like I did for many years–I didn’t know what everything was) They will also simply be disbelieving that anything but powerful, potentially harmful drugs can do anything. After all–the symptoms are just so bad. You need something really strong. Well, for me that really strong stuff just made me more imbalanced. And I know that is the case for so many people.
Not sure how much I’ll be posting. Life is really hard right now. My brother’s situation is really dragging me down. I may simply go home soon. I can’t do anything here and I feel in the way at my dad’s.
Everything matters 
Alison,
Good for you.
And I understand when people can’t change too. I don’t blame my dad. He just wants to enjoy life.
I don’t really know what clicked inside me and made me willing to make the changes. It was like a conversion. I just really really wanted to be healthy and off drugs and I’m determined to make it happen. I was vaguely aware of much of what I’m doing years ago and didn’t get around to really pursuing it until recently. Who knows how and why we change when we do.
Be healthy.
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Alison,
Good for you.
And I understand when people can’t change too. I don’t blame my dad. He just wants to enjoy life.
I don’t really know what clicked inside me and made me willing to make the changes. It was like a conversion. I just really really wanted to be healthy and off drugs and I’m determined to make it happen. I was vaguely aware of much of what I’m doing years ago and didn’t get around to really pursuing it until recently. Who knows how and why we change when we do.
Be healthy.
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It’s very difficult for people to radically change their diet even when their life depends on it. I did not think I could do it myself but when I became hopeful that I might be able t go off of dialysis if I severely restricted my diet (and it is a very severe diet the renal diet) and added a lot of walking for exercise along with taking all the supplements and binders I was already taking and drinking my regular 2 gallons of water a day (truly, that’s how much I have to drink to stay hydrated), I found I could do it. I have been off dialysis for 3 months going on 4 months now. I won’t be off forever, it doesn’t work that way, and I am more tired, but not as tired as I was on dialysis days and I don’t have the awful dialysis side effects I was having.
So I say go for it for yourself and more power to you and if your dad can’t do it, well, most people can’t, and that’s a shame, but I understand that too.
I am sorry about your brother.
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It’s very difficult for people to radically change their diet even when their life depends on it. I did not think I could do it myself but when I became hopeful that I might be able t go off of dialysis if I severely restricted my diet (and it is a very severe diet the renal diet) and added a lot of walking for exercise along with taking all the supplements and binders I was already taking and drinking my regular 2 gallons of water a day (truly, that’s how much I have to drink to stay hydrated), I found I could do it. I have been off dialysis for 3 months going on 4 months now. I won’t be off forever, it doesn’t work that way, and I am more tired, but not as tired as I was on dialysis days and I don’t have the awful dialysis side effects I was having.
So I say go for it for yourself and more power to you and if your dad can’t do it, well, most people can’t, and that’s a shame, but I understand that too.
I am sorry about your brother.
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I haven’t been in your situation and yes I can see it as a tough call of what to do. You love your family and want to care for them, yet technically they are not your responsibility. the semi-empathic pain you endure while caring for them can make you ill. “Don’t go down with the ship” doesn’t really fit but its close.
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I haven’t been in your situation and yes I can see it as a tough call of what to do. You love your family and want to care for them, yet technically they are not your responsibility. the semi-empathic pain you endure while caring for them can make you ill. “Don’t go down with the ship” doesn’t really fit but its close.
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