[Perna]

I recently was diagnosed with hypothyroid and bought a book last month, The Thyroid Solution: A Revolutionary Mind-Body Program That Will Help You by Ridha Arem, M.D., an endocrinologist. I'm just getting around to reading it now am surprised how much new-to-me information I'm getting out of Chapter 5, titled, "Thyroid imbalance, depression, anxiety, and mood swings".

Aparently they're starting to think that one of the thyroid hormones, T3, might be a major brain chemical like serotonin and the others. Research has found that some people have an okay thyroid and blood level readings but a brain problem in using it and that affects mood and when added to Lithium it actually helps some bipolar patients for both mood swing and depression where nothing else alone has been able to.

There's other chapters that address other things that may be thyroid related, like Fibro and CFS.

http://www.thyroid-info.com/articles...depression.htm

http://www.webmd.com/depression/news...nk-still-alive

http://thyroid.about.com/b/2005/06/1...id-disease.htm

http://www.bipolarworld.net/phelps/ph_2002/ph833.htm

http://www.thyroid.ca/Articles/EngE10F.html

[_Hope_]

very cool info, thanks for sharing

Thanks Perna.... very useful info. I too have a thyroid condition. For me it followed postnatal depression. Soon after I then met with menopause and a few extreme mood swings later I'm now flatlined with depression more often than not.

Looking forward to discovering some new-to-me information to move me along to greater understanding. A good dose of motivation to do what I already know to do wouldn't help either. lol.

Keep well.

"Don't just weather the storm. Learn to dance in the rain."