PERSPECTIVE
This week, on A Different Perspective, Dr. Jason Nobles discusses the history behind mental health issues, what causes them, and why. Dr. Jason Nobles discusses what doesn’t cause them, and why a new paradigm is needed.
- If physical symptoms were treated like mental health problems
- This is a real problem people deal with
- 46.4% of adults in the U.S. will experience mental illness in their lifetime
- 5% of adults in the U.S. experience mental illness each year, which ends up being 43.8 million
When did it start?
- Trephination
- Caused by a demon or bad spirit
- Drilled a hole in the head to release it
- Bloodletting
- Sedation to release bad blood from the body
- Imbalance of humors
- Wandering uterus
- Wombs made women irrational
- Hysteria
- Medical pelvic massage
- Isolation and asylums
- Burdens on society
- Psychiatric drugs were pushed to be able to bring these people back out and stop overcrowding
- We tend to do it to ourselves, and usually end up feeling worse
- Reasons for Admission 1864 to 1889
- Intemperance & business trouble
- Dissolute habits
- Kicked in the head by a horse
- Domestic affliction
- Hereditary predisposition
- Domestic trouble
- Ill treatment by husband
- Dropsy
- Imaginary female trouble
- Egotism
- Hysteria
- Epileptic fits
- Immoral life
- Excessive sexual abuse
- Imprisonment
- Excitement as officer
- Jealousy and religion
- Exposure and hereditary
- Laziness
- Exposure and quackery
- Marriage of son
- Exposure in army
- Masturbation & syphilis
- Fever and jealousy
- Masturbation for 30 years
- Fighting fire
- Medicine to prevent conception
- Suppressed masturbation
- Menstrual deranged
- Suppression of menses
- Mental excitement
- The war
- Novel reading
- Time of life
- Nymphomania
- Uterine derangement
- Opium habit
- Venereal excesses
- Over action of the mind
- Vicious vices
- Over study of religion
- Women trouble
- Over taxing mental powers
- Superstition
- Parents were cousins
- Shooting of daughter
- Periodical fits,
- Small pox
- Tobacco & masturbation
- Snuff eating for 2 years
- Political excitement
- Spinal irritation
- Politics
- Gathering in the head
- Religious enthusiasm
- Greediness
- Fever and loss of law suit
- Grief
- Fits and desertion of husband
- Gunshot wound
- Asthma
- Hard study
- Bad company
- Rumor of husband murder
- Bad habits & political excitement
- Salvation army
- Bad whiskey
- Scarlatina
- Bloody flux
- Seduction & disappointment
- Brain fever
- Self abuse
- Business nerves
- Sexual abuse & stimulants
- Carbonic acid gas
- Sexual derangement
- Congestion of brain
- False confinement
- Death of sons in war
- Feebleness of intellect
- Decoyed into the army
- Fell from horse in war
- Deranged masturbation
- Female disease
- Desertion by husband
- Dissipation of nerves
- Today
- Nearly 300 mental health disorders listed in the DSM-5
- 7 main groups
- Mood disorders
- Anxiety disorders
- Personality disorders
- Psychotic disorders
- Eating disorders
- Trauma-related disorders
- Substance abuse disorders
- Questionnaire—PHQ-9
- Patient tells Doctor they are depressed
- All labs look normal and Doctor can’t figure out why they are suffering
- Psychiatrist
- “You’re just looking for medications”
- Fibromyalgia
- Nearly 300 mental health disorders listed in the DSM-5
- WebMD definition of mental illness
Different approaches
- Medical approach
- Fireman
- Axes and hoses
- “The fires out” doesn’t mean you’re healthy, again
- You can’t rebuild a person with an axe and hose, just like you can’t put out a fire with a hammer and nails
- Treat the symptoms by using drug therapy
- Antidepressant drugs
- Psychotherapy
- Hospitalization
- More drugs
- Alternative Medicine Approach
- Fish Oils
- St John’s Wort
- Exercise
- B Vitamins
- Magnesium
- Acupuncture
- Will quit working before the medical approach
- The Wellness Way approach
- Why is the person experiencing this?
- Traumas, toxins, and thoughts
- WebMD—understanding antidepressants
- We don’t really know
- Serotonin
SSRIs—how do they work?
- Keep serotonin floating around, able to deliver more messages
- Do they work? Yep
- What do all drugs have? Unintended effects
- Insomnia
- Headaches
- Rash
- Blurred vision
- Drowsiness
- Dry mouth
- Agitation or nervousness
- Feeling dizzy
- Pain in the joints or muscles
- Upset stomach, nausea, or diarrhea
- Reduced sexual desire
- Problems with erection or ejaculation
- You cannot effect one area and not the others
- Some cause suicidal thoughts and ideation
- Some can cause worse depression
- Not addictive, but discontinuation syndrome
Understanding the new paradigm
- Swiss watch
- If you stub your toe, it doesn’t just affect your toe
- If you’re stressed, you can get sick easier
- Serotonin is made in the gut. If we have an overgrowth in there, can enough be made? If you don’t have enough building blocks, can enough be made?
- Gut-brain connection
- Changes in behavior, cognition, and emotion
- Susceptible to inflammation
- Loss of beneficial gut bacteria
- 1 nerve goes from the brain to the gut, while 10,000 + nerve endings go from the gut to the brain
- Serotonin and Depression: A Disconnect between the Advertisements and the Scientific Literature
- The studies that connect serotonin and depression have never been done
- “Does serotonin deficiency cause depression” to “can SSRIs fix serotonin?” They missed a step
- “Although it is often stated with great confidence that depressed people have a serotonin deficiency, the evidence actually contradicts these claims. Indeed, no abnormality of serotonin in depression has ever been demonstrated.”
- Neurotransmitters
- Adrenaline—fight or flight
- Noradrenaline—concentrate
- Dopamine—pleasure
- Serotonin—mood
- GABA—calming
- Acetylcholine—learning
- Glutamate—Memory
- Endorphins—Euphoria
- Body is made to stay in fight-or-flight for a very short time
- Eating a lot of sugar taxes the pancreas. GABA is stored in the pancreas
Genetics
- WebMD definition
- Run in families vs genes
- If it were genetic, the numbers wouldn’t increase
- Environmental
- Cholesterol
- Large amount of cholesterol is found in brain tissue where it is needed for normal brain function
- Research has shown that cholesterol is vital to older people whose memory is declining
- Brain is 60% fat. A quarter of that is cholesterol
- What happens when you starve the brain?
- Depression
- Psychosis
- Anxiety
- Suicidal thoughts
- High total cholesterol levels in late life associated with a reduced risk of dementia
- What do we do that affects it?
- Processed Grains
- Wheat
- Corn
- Barley
- Rye
- Sorghum
- Dairy
- Milk
- Cheese
- Soy
- Processed Sugar
- Processed Grains
- Cholesterol
Product Knowledge—Ginkgo
This week, on A Different Perspective, Dr. Jason Nobles discusses Ginkgo, and its benefits for the body and mind.
- Cerebral Vascular Stimulant
- Circulatory Stimulant
- Blood Thinner
- Ginkgo biloba for cerebral insufficiency
- Supplements are designed to bridge the gap so you can get to where you don’t need them, anymore
Last 10%
This week, on A Different Perspective, Dr. Jason Nobles summarizes what he discussed in A Different Perspective on May 6, 2023, and how The Wellness Way can help.
- There are a lot of mental health issues facing us, today. It’s not normal
- Don’t shrug it off—it’s real
- We can’t know what it’s like to be in their skin
- We’re here to help. We’re a place of hope
