Mental Illness: What we’re doing wrong

I went through a couple of major mental health episodes during the last two Covid years, related to self-isolation.

Took up breathing exercises related to buddhist meditation (called pranayama) seriously.

I'm doing fine now.

* in case you care, the 5 pranayamas I work with are called: ujjayi, anulom vilom, kapalbhati, bhastrika, brahmari

* wim hof method also works well (it's a combination of multiple pranayamas).

Here's the not paywalled version: https://web.archive.org/web/20220512234222/https://www.latim...

Tl/dr: My assessment of her predicament is that her genetic condition (MTHFR) -> Vitamin B9 (folate) deficiency -> depression -> substance abuse -> psychosis.

The medical professionals' diagnose "psychosis unspecified", and pronounce that she requires treatment with anti-psychotics in perpetuity. (Does this really pass as 'modern medicine'?)

Robert Whitaker's foundation published my essay about what I've observed of involuntary mental health: Malignant Do-Gooderism: The Tragedies of Allopathic Psychiatry - https://www.madinamerica.com/2022/02/malignant-gooderism/

This was before the Supreme Court of the United States denied my petition. I asked them to reconsider, and tweeted about the petition for rehearing: https://twitter.com/JamesKnochel/status/1509632664302600213

Justices denied that too. My next petition is due May 19.

From this article:

> “What impresses me most,” he said, “is how recalcitrant mental illness is, how difficult it is to comprehend, how hard it is to come up with effective treatments and ultimately, how it is best to be honest about what we don’t know, so we can pursue a more eclectic approach to treating it and not be certain we know the right answer.”

IMHO, mental illness is much simpler than the professionals think, they're just stuck in a briar patch of palliative treatments that don't work. My readings at the Science Library are that "Mental Illness" has been known to fundamentally be a metabolic problem that is usually triggered by 'emotional stress', and often exacerbated by malnourishment. (Oh yeah, there's a reply to one of my earlier comments about 'histamine'... [edit] the reply to my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27993001 )

One of my latest anecdotes is my friend coming to visit me, and how I decided I had no choice but to call the Sheriff on her (she was whacked out on 'something'). The Sheriff picked her up on an outstanding warrant. She came back a week later for her backpack, at 75% of her normal capacity. We spent a few hours doing normal things. She picked up an electrolyte concentrate at the grocery store. I protested that it had fake sugar, but she got it anyways. Went home, she had her electrolyte drink, started eating, then she fell apart. "I have to leave." hmm? While going down the driveway, she said "Don't follow me, I don't know you."

It was like flipping a switch: functional -> dysfunctional. 'What the hell just happened?' Then I remembered the electrolyte drink: !!!!!.

Brains require glucose. If you're not on the edge of sanity you can tolerate a little artificial sweetener. But fake sugar is terrible stuff.

Brains also need B-vitamins and progesterone USP (birth control w/ fake progesterone, often causes depression) and a whole bunch of other stuff. "Stress" depletes people's resources. Simple, simple, simple.

If any of you know an attorney on the SCOTUS bar who'd like to serve up some humble pie to the justices, I'd appreciate a referral. My last petition said they should reconsider because their baby's ugly, and they still ignored me.

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