I think my issue with conventional psychiatric drugs and talk therapy is that they are what Tylenol is to a headache, they don't actually cure the condition, they simply mitigate the symptoms. So it's clear that conventional psychiatry has no clue of the root causes, and doesn't yet understand what exactly in the body or brain causes the symptoms. In that sense, I feel anything that can show a return to "normalcy" and has a root cause explanation, should be considered very seriously and researched deeply, over what simply mitigates symptoms.
> The long-term use of antibiotics especially worries him, because it could contribute to the problem of drug-resistant bacteria. This is still the mainstream position: The most recent edition of the Red Book, an exhaustive guide to childhood infectious diseases published every three years by the American Academy of Pediatrics, goes out of its way to recommend that children with PANS and PANDAS symptoms not be given an extended course of antibiotics.
That's a valid concern, but I feel someone curious (like me), just has to wonder, well why are the antibiotics needed for so long? What is it here that prevents them from actually getting rid of strep in the brain? Maybe there are alternatives to just permanent antibiotics dosing.