Bartonella and psychosis and TD

I have bartonella (one of the bacteria most frequenly associated with lyme disease). I also have tardive dyskinesia. In western medicine dyskinesia is associated with infection when it’s not associated with a psych drug history, psychosis and neuroleptic drugs. In the article I wrote for Mad in America I speak to some of what I think is happening with tardive dyskinesia. There is good reason to consider what I’m saying.

A new study reveals there is indeed an association with bartonella infection and that which gets labeled psychosis. There is a long list of other supporting science at the end of the article on Mad in America as well. I’ve been connecting the dots for a long time. Tardive dyskinesia is also associated with bartonella in that dyskinesias are symptomatic of bartonella.

Bartonella DNA Found in Blood of Patients With Psychosis | NC State News

from Mad in America:

Tardive dyskinesia (TD) is, in part, a medically induced (iatrogenic) INJURY associated with almost 2000 different drugs often used in psychiatry, gastroenterology and Parkinson’s. People are rarely told of the risk. While it’s often referred to as a drug “side effect,” grave injury and permanent disability is not a side effect. It is a life-altering, permanent change that alters peoples lives dramatically and catastrophically.

What has been unknown in psychiatric circles is that dyskinesia is also often caused by infection. The Bartonella bacteria, which is almost always associated with chronic Lyme disease, can cause dyskinesia too and it looks and is experienced the same as “tardive” dyskinesia. The “tardive” description is tacked onto the term “dyskinesia” in psychiatry because its appearance is “delayed” for some period after starting antipsychotics (and lots of other pharmaceuticals including antidepressants, as indicated above.)

The manifestations of dyskinesia vary broadly and so does severity. This blog concentrates on the phenomena as misunderstood within psychiatry and how it’s being treated in Lyme disease. (read the rest here)

There is very little information on tardive dyskinesia that is anything other than convenient for psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry to spread in order to continue giving dangerous pharmaceuticals to those who have already been injured by pharma. I am collecting information about my experience because it’s become clear to me that the TD is a manifestation of both Bartonella and that which gets called Lyme disease. I say it that way because chronic lyme is always a collection of multiple system infections and no two cases are alike. Lyme has become a garbage pale term for illnesses that are highly complex and individual. Western medicine has a problem with diagnosis meaning much of anything. We know this is true in psychiatry…it’s become clear to me that it’s true in general. See: MDs, systemic infections and such (Lyme and Tardive Dyskinesia)

see also:  Tardive Dyskinesia: Unveiling the Complex Connection with Biofilm

NEW: Chronic illness: a kaleidoscopic view – All Signal

For a collection of all my work on Tardive Dyskinesia see here

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