According to the Germ Theory, there has to be some kind of pathogen, like a virus or a bacterium for there to be a disease. Can pathogens cause any kind of mental disorders or syndromes? Your immune system should take care of most pathogens. After they enter your body, there is also an additional barrier before anything can get into your brain: the blood brain barrier. Does this mean it is impossible for any pathogen to ever affect your brain?
You can get a sore throat from some bacteria (streptococcus bacteria can cause Strep throat) and viruses (if you have a viral infection in your throat, NO Antibiotics can cure your viral sore throat!).
So, it is uncommon for pathogens to cause mental disorders. However, here are a few of the RARE exceptions.
Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Strep (PANDAS) has been known to exist 1998. This means that a streptococcus bacteria can cause infection in the brain and cause OCD symptoms, sensory issues, eating issues, Tics, and more. Some bacterial infections gone rogue may sometimes be the cause of OCD symptoms.
Lymes disease is caused by borrelia burgdorferi, this is a spirochete, but its often just called a bacteria. There is a form where this enters the brain. In about 15 percent of cases, Lyme disease affects the central nervous system. When it does, it is known as neurologic Lyme disease. [1] Also referred to as Neuroborreliosis. Unfortunately, Ive seen Neuro-Lyme cause DP/DR a few times. The spirochete is very good at hiding between tissues in the human body.
A particular form of syphilis, the sexually transmitted disease (STD) can enter the brain and cause mental and emotional issues. This is called neurosyphilis. Symptoms can include dementia, mania, psychosis and depression. Syphilis can also seem to hide and disappear in the human body, and then come back.
How do you know if you do have Depersonalization or Derealization?
I’ve got a structured interview ready for you, with lots of questions. If you answer the questions, I will tell you in an e-mail what my professional opinion is.
I’ve been very busy the last few months creating a self help course. After successfully treating people for DP/DR for quite a few years, I’ve decided to try to reduce treatment time and increase your flexibility..by creating a online Video Self-Help Course which follows the Phases of Healing.
Hi sufferers of Depersonalization and Derealization disorder,
Having treated DP/DR now for several years, Ive worked on definition, and shot 3 videos on definition and understanding. Here are they.
Now, i want to submit another important idea on what it is:
DP/DR is psychological decompensation of the personality.
Psychological of psychiatric decompensation is the functional deterioration of a previously working structure or system. Decompensation may occur due to stressors like trauma, threat, extreme stress, threat from recreations drugs, illness, etc. Normally coping mechanisms work, meaning you can compensate for stress, trauma, threat, etc. and function despite stressors. Decompensation means breaks down, and with DP/DR the greatest breakdown is seen in the breakdown of self confidence and distrust of your own mind, as well as a distrust of your own senses. Decompensation is a general term commonly used in medicine to describe a variety of breakdown situations, like that of the heart.
Life Rules – Precepts Sometimes I get questions about life rule, especially life rules that other therapists and doctors have concocted for dealing with DP/DR.
The basis idea about precepts/life rules is: If i just follow these rules, I will be safe and nothing bad will happen to me. What do you think about this idea of rules?
Firstly – My basic attitude is a very pragmatic one. I don’t intend on making long lists of do’s and don’ts. My advice: temporarily avoid that which worsens, until, after a few sessions, when you have become stronger, then stop avoiding challenges.
Pragmatic also means common sense. Never use recreational (hallucinogen, weed, XTC, ketamine, etc) drugs. They cannot be dosed and you are abusing your body and mind. Alcohol is not a universal problem, can be dosed, so no hard and fast rules. When you have removed the fears, normal moderate alcohol can be quite OK.
Coffee, coke and other caffeine containing drinks can worsen anxiety.
But on a deeper level, it is really important to realize that there is no authority outside yourself that can tell you if something is good for you or not. The authority is in your heart. Your heart is your compass. Ask yourself what your conscience says. How does it make you feel?
A very important concept for DP/DR is following the compass in you heart regarding what is good or not. Trusting yourself, not any authority outside yourself.
New experience from clients who have recovered. Two new experience on my website, can be found on the client experience page.
Very telling is the experience of M, a psychologist. As a psychologist, she knew that she had DP/DR, and she had a network of fellow psychologists. In spite of that, she told me she had already been in therapy for 10 years with a diverse bunch of psychologists/psychotherapists…and theses did not have the necessary knowledge to help her effectively!!! There is no pill to sell, that we know of. Treating DP/DR is not taught at universities or colleges. Isn’t that painful? Thank God she is cured. Want to read more? Read more
Our culture can cause us to alienate ourselves from our selves. We can get estranged from ourselves by our culture, with all its expectations which are fueled by parents and school, and of course by the zeitgeist of our western civilization. The main problem is that we are so used to it, that we don’t see the nature of our civilization. Our industrialized society is very busy, active and busy with doing, more doing and more doing. Our work ethic, you have to work to get ahead, and the deadlines, it all has to be on time. To do lists. With all this doing, is there any time to just be?
School madness
Our school system is an artificial environment, in which we tell our kids that they are not yet fully qualified to be developed and worthwhile human being yet. It is also very artificial to separate kids in age groups. From a very young age, you are told you must perform and you are not complete yet. You need to improve. During school time you need to sit still, and your feelings and emotions have no value. You need to work to become, and right now you have no are not good enough yet. You need to work and prove that you deserve the right to exist. If you are lucky, you will get there sometime. During al this school and learning phase, you are not in the real world, you are not confronted with having to pay for rent of earning your own money to pay your own way. During this school and learning phase, you are in a artificial bubble. You are only making plans on paper, never really doing the things you do in the real world. You never asked to just be present here and now.
Please listen to this fragment
And this one
Life is not a race, and its not about the final destination (a hole in the ground), its not about reaching your pension. How about the quality of experience along the path?
There are lots of useful commentaries about the school system.
What I find even more important, is that our school system doesn’t teach us about life, but teaches us about dominantly pushing our will upon life. Our school system teaches us nothing about being in harmony with nature, having respect for nature, we don’t learn about emotions and stress, about resolving conflicts with others human beings. We are taught an illusion that technology will fix all our problems.
School teaches us that thinking is very important, that being serious is important, and that solving problems is important. But life is not a problem to be solved.
Homo ex machina
Since the growth of (the illusion of) technology in our modern time, there is illusion of malleability of life itself. We use the machine as a metaphor and model for our body. You look at the functions. The purpose of our body is more that just some functions. We treat our body as if it was a machine, which you can adapt and change at will. A machine looks at functions and efficiency. When we reduce the heart to a pump, we short change ourselves. Reality is more than this reduction. When you talk about organ transplantation, memories and character traits are transplanted along with the organs.
The body is not a machine. If you wish to be happy, you need to express your spirit through your body.
Violence on TV
When you look at the history of TV and movies, you clearly see that there is a steady increase of violence, it keeps getting more extreme. That is normal why?
In any case, lots of emotion is evoked, and this can be more threatening.
Economy
Economy is a series of abstractions that also lose contact with reality, which puts you smack in the middle of this separation sickness. Fueled by greed and only interested in a few functions, you lose contact with the whole of the real world.
Wholeness
Wholeness should be the norm. Separating mind from body occurs more and more as we value mind over emotions and body. Of course most direct separation occurs due to trauma, threat, use of recreational drugs, etc.
As we value results over how that feels, we alienate ourselves from our bodies. Needing to perform, illusion that everything is for sale, everything is malleable. Cosmetic surgery, we will just fix it. We enter our heads as there are so many problems to analyze, and we need to control and manipulate everything. Life is a problem to be solved. You are not incomplete. Independence is an illusion. It is an illusion to think that you can live from you head only.
Our civilization comes with a side order of entitlement and having the right to feel good.
Life does not need to be easy. It is what it is.
Ir you demand infallibility from yourself, you can wait forever until you reach that perfection. As you judge (in with that create separation, you make it really hard for yourself.
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