Mental Illness

[Jedi]

Originally Posted by Jaques

I have been doing a lot of research recently regarding mental illness, causes, treatments etc. because my youngest son has just returned from the far east as hes been suffering more and more over the last 2 or 3 yrs with hearing voices, really bad ocd's and delusions - you can have a perfectly normal conversation with him but then he gets a panic because the voices and resulting ocd's occur, its day and night - resulting in our bathroom bring permenantly flooded as he throws water over himself - and a lot of worry and anxiety on our part. in England they are loathe to give a diagnosis and put labels on anyone with these kinds of symptoms but we all know what they mean and people are usually heavily drugged, so much so they cant enjoy life. My son has been teaching english and music and is a jazz musician, has a lot of interests and things he wants to do, so too many drugs are not the answer for him.

SO............i googled a Dr Hoffer - when alive (died of old age) he promoted orthomolecular health, good diet, vitamins and minerals in high doses, and particularly Niacin, Vitamin B3 which i am buying for my son.
I have hi blood pressure and colestorol which isnt due to smoking nor diet so as i dont like taking pills, ive discovered that Niacin also lowers both of these, so we are both going to give them a go...........

just thought that may be of interest to anyone with a mental health problem. Niacin is supposed to improve dramatically any condition such as bipolar, depression etc.

I can tell you that hearing voices is a very disturbing thing...it is for me anyway. I'm on a cocktail of meds and they don't make me feel drugged or make me tired. I take a drug called Invega for the hallucinations. It works really well for me and doesn't drug me out.

As far as suppliments go, I have an ex who tried to go all natural. It was a total disaster....and was very hard on me. That doesn't mean it won't work for you....but she tried this program called True Hope and it was just horrid. I have heard that fish oil is good too. And Amino acids.....you might want to give those a try.