#psychiatry

Badly #depressed .

I've been dealing with this for 30 years now.
About once every month or so, my mood goes down, and it lasts two-three weeks: I feel zero motivation, all my thoughts turn negative, nothing seems to be worth doing.

I manage it decently, but it's crippling, I feel like I'm living only a fraction of my life.

I tried the most disparate therapies, meds, life style changes... Very little changes.

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Thanks.

#depression
#chronic
#psychiatry

***EDIT: thanks everyone! Seems like it’s a scummy grift at best and (according to the FDA) potentially dangerous to use to guide medication choices***

Ok fedi friends, met with a new doctor today and he recommended #GeneSight (genesight.com) as a way to see which mental health medications might be most compatible/effective.

First thought was the same privacy concerns that kept me from ever touching 23andMe with a 10 foot pole but I'm researching into that.

Second thought was "this seems scam-y"... Has anyone ever heard of this or tried it? Any #mentalhealth professionals who can weigh in?

#askfedi #psychiatry

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I enjoyed parts of Inflamed Mind: A Radical New Approach to Depression by Edward Bullmore. It is very well written and has some good parts on the history of #psychiatry.

However, I was disappointed by the way he presented his main thesis that inflammation is the main causative mechanism in major depression. His argument isn't very convincing and he doesn't provide evidence that is solid enough to support this. There is also a major straw man throughout the book. Bullmore claims that psychiatry is stuck in Cartesian dualism yet he doesn't discuss the biopsychosocial model and rejects any psychological explanation of depression as stigmatizing. The modern scientific way of thinking about the relationship between the mind and the brain is that all mental operations arise from functions of the brain, including higher functions.

Fortunately, he is careful not to offer false hope or push unlicensed or unsafe treatments on vulnerable patients.

I originally posted this review on my blog: moftasa.net/inflamed-mind