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Lyme Is 'All in Your Head' – A Wake-Up Call to Mental Health Professionals

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Re: Lyme Is 'All in Your Head' – A Wake-Up Call to Mental Health Professionals

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post #8

This reminds me of Morgellan's disease. Insisting something is real doesn't make it real. I don't know anything... can someone share a more evidence heavy article from the same side of the argument? The medical profession doesn't just turn it's back on treatable (e.g. profitable) diseases.

After reading the description of "Morgellan's", it actually makes other pseudodiagnoses seem reasonable.

Re: Lyme Is 'All in Your Head' – A Wake-Up Call to Mental Health Professionals

#22
post #3

> Every day, in doctors’ offices across the US—as well as in Canada, the UK, Ireland, Amsterdam, Australia, Sweden, in 80 countries and on every continent Amsterdam is not a country. The country is called The Netherlands. Amsterdam is the capital.

Also apparently the plague of undiagnosed Lyme Brain Cloud has spread to Antarctica.

Where will it end? Somebody quick dispatch an MA/RP to Bellingshausen Station!

Re: Lyme Is 'All in Your Head' – A Wake-Up Call to Mental Health Professionals

#23
post #8

This reminds me of Morgellan's disease. Insisting something is real doesn't make it real. I don't know anything... can someone share a more evidence heavy article from the same side of the argument? The medical profession doesn't just turn it's back on treatable (e.g. profitable) diseases.

After reading the description of "Morgellan's", it actually makes other pseudodiagnoses seem reasonable.

Yeah I mean it's the canonical example. But their support groups and conventions and special doctors all sound very similar.

Re: Lyme Is 'All in Your Head' – A Wake-Up Call to Mental Health Professionals

#24
post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pointing out that Amsterdam is a city and not a country isn't really "being difficult."

But it's off topic and not constructive.

It's a useful tool to determine how well-edited the source is.

Re: Lyme Is 'All in Your Head' – A Wake-Up Call to Mental Health Professionals

#26

Well now I don't know who to believe.

It's not an issue to take sides on. Some people get infected with Lyme disease and need treatment. Some unhappy people go looking for a disease to believe they have and choose Lyme disease. My father had mysterious and very scary symptoms for several years running in the 1990s, and in like 2005 his doctor said, "You know, that could have been Lyme disease. Heck, it probably was," and that very quickly became a certainty in my Dad's mind. So when you hear someone say "Lyme disease" there's no way to know exactly what's up without hearing more.

Re: Lyme Is 'All in Your Head' – A Wake-Up Call to Mental Health Professionals

#27
post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pointing out that Amsterdam is a city and not a country isn't really "being difficult."

But it's off topic and not constructive.

That may be your opinion, but I think it speaks to the veracity of the article. If the author is so sloppy they don't get simple stuff right, I shouldn't trust your evaluation of complicated, subtle medical issues.

Re: Lyme Is 'All in Your Head' – A Wake-Up Call to Mental Health Professionals

#28
post #18
post #8

This reminds me of Morgellan's disease. Insisting something is real doesn't make it real. I don't know anything... can someone share a more evidence heavy article from the same side of the argument? The medical profession doesn't just turn it's back on treatable (e.g. profitable) diseases.

Yes it does, all the time. Before Diabetes was a known condition, it was considered a mental disorder. Then diabetes became widely understood, but for a short time hypoglycemia was considered a mental disorder. Nowadays, hypo and hyperglycemia that are triggered without actual blood sugar level changes, are considered a mental disorder. I know, because there is someone in my family with that last one. But if you do e…

> Before Diabetes was a known condition, it was considered a mental disorder.

That's a disingenuous comparison. Lyme disease is a known condition, with empirical tests to detect it and clinically proven treatments.

Re: Lyme Is 'All in Your Head' – A Wake-Up Call to Mental Health Professionals

#29
I'm not surprised the majority of comments here dismiss Lyme disease as a figment. It's odd the new anti-establishment is always pro establishment. In politics and medicine. It seems ( with the left), whatever the established authority says; it must be right -- (err, left?).
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