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RE: How Often Are Your Symptoms Caused by Anxiety?
There is also the recent but very slow acknowledgement of PANDAS (Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections) in children and also PANS (non-strep often caused by Lyme infection). This disorder often causes extremely severe OCD and tics. Then there is the recent research showing depression being caused by inflammation of the brain. And there is the successful treatment of schizophrenia with B vitamins... Eventually, most mental illness will be able to be treated medically with some behavioral help on the side I'm sure. The current medications do nothing to heal anything yet unfortunately. Following!
Wow, I hadn't heard of PANDAS. Thank you. About medications, it always depends on the case. In conditions that involve a noticeable alteration of personality and/or behavior, however, most medications treat symptoms, not the underlying causes, since these are too hard to pin point and can be the result of more than one factor. For example in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and stimulant psychosis, medications will try to block your dopamine receptors, but why were they messed up in the first place? Unfortunately many diseases do not have a direct cure yet even if you do know the cause, and you can only repair the damage without directly attacking what caused it, or just alleviate the symptoms for a better quality of life.
How do you get inflammation of the brain? Wow - never heard of that one.