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That's a good article you shared.
That actually fits my W pretty good. The low serotonin.
Funny it mentioned MLC too. Is it all of it??? IDK. But it dang sure could be a factor.
I really believe it is. The perfect storm! I don't think we use that phrase around here as much any more, but it sure fits.
That's my main question. Let a say it was.
How do you talk and get their crazy self to he see a doctor???
I read to where people that were abused as children have lower serotonin levels later on. Women on birth control pills have lower serotonin also. More depression.
Also said levels are lower when less sum is out. Vitamin D is low.
Makes alot of sense with my W.
xH went on his own accord. I guess you could say I was lucky in that regard, except as Anjae points out below, it didn't have a clean outcome. He was also diagnosed with low D. I too had a crisis, and I believe the birth control pills I was on at the time were a contributing factor. But early menopause also runs in my family, and likely was part of what I went through as well. So many things to add to the list!
How do you talk and get their crazy self to he see a doctor???
As a general rule, you don't. And when they go see a doctor is does not seem to work or go well at all.
Ready2's husband saw a doctor that diagnosed him with bipolar and gave him SSRI, an anti-depressant for serotonine. It only made things worst.
It's hard to say if long term it would have helped or not, because both his psych and a therapist had a plan with him, and he wouldn't follow it. At one point one of the meds he was on (Celexa) did clear his mind, but physically the side effects were horrible. It was after the switch to the next drug that I saw the significant negative reaction mentally that he never returned from, and of course, he stopped taking them cold turkey which also did its damage.
SSRI drugs, I have learned, are usually a bad choice for bipolars (at least without a separate mood stabilizer along with them). Higher risk of mania. Which is what I saw.
I had read up on Pyroluria, which is chronic deficiency in B6 and Zinc (creators of serotonin). I asked a few pharmacist friends if they thought someone with chronic low serotonin should be on an SSRI, since those drugs don't actually create more serotonin, they just reuse faster what is already in the body than what the body naturally would, sort of creating the illusion of more serotonin. One said perfectly that it would be like having a vineyard with a low yield of grapes one year, and trying to squeeze the grapes harder to get more juice out of them to meet your quota. Not gonna work. So it was a doomed plan, but there wasn't enough time for the professionals to get there with him to find that out.
It's all equally as fascinating as it is heartbreaking.