scribbling2much: I have had diagnoses come and go, TLE, MS, Schizoaffective, Conversion disorder, PTSD, but Bipolar with psychotic features has been settled on.
MS is one that doesn't often come up in conversations -- have you ever been tested for Lyme disease?
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Cause: Lyme Disease
Lyme disease is no small health threat to persons living in the Northeast, the Mid-Atlantic states, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and northern California. True, the first signs of its onslaught are usually no more than flulike symptoms. But it is also capable, over the long haul, of inflicting a variety of other physiological insults—say, muscle pain, arthritis, heart inflammation, severe headache, stiff neck, or facial paralysis.
Now a new study adds one more malady to that list: psychiatric illness.
The study was conducted by Tomá Hájek, M.D., a psychiatry resident at the Prague Psychiatric Center in the Czech Republic, and his colleagues. It is reported in the February American Journal of Psychiatry.
Source: Psychiatry Online
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That's an older article and the spread of Lyme is now acknowledged as having been more widespread than believed. I did meet a woman not long ago who had been diagnosed with both psychiatric disorders and multiple schlerosis but she actually had Lyme disease and has experienced improvement since she began being treated for that.
The biggest problem for me truly is not having a persistent tangible sense of self, that, and "meaning."
If you don't mind sharing, what have you come up with for yourself in terms of "meaning"?