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07/10/23

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Originally posted by pintohoo: ↑

Thanks for your post. Good luck with your health in the future.

I'd like to share a couple of things which might help others if they run into similar things, it might help.
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A short story about a friend of mine from many years back.

A very normal kind of bloke, business owner. Calm type of bloke. Didn't drink much, had his own home and investments and even had a nice cat. He lives a perfectly normal life, had holidays, would have answered yes to a question on if he was contented and happy.

One day, he was driving home from work all normal, then flick - just like someone flicked a switch, he thought - oh, I'll kill myself, I'll drive into a tree.

He managed to not drive into the tree - but, it began a period of intense depression. Just like that.

He ended up with a doctor who - I've no idea how, said that he might have an instant type of depression brought on by a virus. And, the doctor expected that the depression would go away. He did give medication.

I think it was about 3 months to the day - and the depression just disappeared - pretty much like it had arrived - almost like flicking a switch. The guy went back to normal life, as if nothing had ever happened and has never had any sort of recurrance.

The message from the story - that this kind of thing can happen. (even if the virus idea was incorrect - the fact remains that an instantaneous kind of depression can come like lightning and go rapidly).

There's zillions of pathogens about, they can do all kinds of weird things to us.

One other point.
If we have friends, family or acquaintances that all of a sudden become aggressive or even violent - out of the blue, out of nowhere, a total change in character and nature
someone who might go from perfectly normal loving person - to some horror that leaves everyone around them thinking 'where the hell did that come from'

then - there's a couple of things that are easily overlooked -

1. head injury - it might have been something at sport, it might have been a car accident - it might have been an accident that seemed so small that no one thinks about it ---------- but, if you see aggression out of the blue or a change of character - think about it
was there anything different? Did they have an incident in sport, did they perhaps bump their head under the house, did they have the car damaged. Did they come off their bike? ---------- Frontal lobe damage changes lives - and, it's pretty easily missed sometimes.

Also - think about - maybe there's something in their head that we can't see. A tumour. That can also result in change of behaviour, sometimes it's just - 'she's or he's different', 'never used to fly off the handle like that before' -------- etc etc.

All of those things can be encountered in normal everyday life - they are awfully easy to miss and if they are missed, they can create all kinds of trouble.

Of course there's a multitude of other reasons, but it's just good to know about that there's other reasons beyond things like drugs and stress and the like.

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Great post Pinto.

As U say its important to keep perspective when judging people in this regard.

Ther can be many causes for MH problems and many of them not of peoples own doing.

I have type 2 diabetes which is my own doing becose I have a massive sweet tooth, which is having to change if I want to live a few more years !!!

But then I had an episode of shingles that developed on the side of my face, evidenced by a burning sensation for a couple of weeks. No rash, which is why I didnt pick it up soon enuf to have it treated with antivirals. It ended up geting into my trigeminal nerve structure, just a fancy medical term for a nerve node in the head, and subsequently resulted in a migrating head neuralgia that was at time very debilitating. Unusual according to every medico ive talked to about it as it usually only effects one side of the face. Perhaos it has something to do with the ability of the virus to move in the nervous system.

Add to that my high blood sugar toxicity and U have the perfect scenario for a very poor quality of life, which I had for over 2 years post my psychotic depression episode.

It was only when my diabetic consultant measuered my blood glose at around 2ommls !!!, and he put me on insulin, that I started to recover.

As U say there can b many causes for many medical issues.

We r a complex organism and with that complexity comes complex health issues.

ALWAYS ALWAYS seek professional medical help if Ur not dealing/coping with medical/mental health issues. PLEASE !!!

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