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Hype Help Hope.. What is behind a Diagnosis Code beyond concentration, anxiety, brain fog · Wellness Uncensored

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Speaker 2: Hey, good afternoon, and welcome to another episode of Wellness Uncensored.
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Speaker 2: My name is doctor Patty g. I am a psychiatric
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Speaker 2: nurse practitioner, and we're here today to talk about all
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Speaker 2: things uncensored, Things that you might not find out there
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Speaker 2: in the mainstream, things that the medical model might not
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Speaker 2: share and tell you about. We're here to help you
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Speaker 2: to find your best self, to be your best self,
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Speaker 2: live your best life, and try to do it without
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Speaker 2: a lot of medications applications and trying to get you
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Speaker 2: to wellness. Today's episode is hype, help and hope, how
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Speaker 2: to solve the problem, not just find a diagnosis code.
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Speaker 2: And we're going to talk about all different kinds of
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Speaker 2: things brain fog, anxiety or concentration, fatigue, distraction, forgetfulness. Maybe
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Speaker 2: you have low mood, or maybe you're sad, maybe you're
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Speaker 2: just overthinking. There's a lot of different symptoms that people
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Speaker 2: present with and It's fascinating because I think it's great
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Speaker 2: to kind of do your own self homework, if you will.
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Speaker 2: It's important to research and try to learn things about yourself.
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Speaker 2: But sometimes we come in fully prepared to talk to
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Speaker 2: a provider to say this is what's going on, this
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Speaker 2: is what I have, And while that may may lead
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Speaker 2: to that road of conclusion, I think it's important to
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Speaker 2: keep an open mind that diagnosis codes will created based
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Speaker 2: on symptoms, but giving yourself a diagnosis code without really
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Speaker 2: being sure what all is going on? Or have you
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Speaker 2: ask yourself all of the questions, when did symptoms start,
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Speaker 2: what was happening when those symptoms started, and kind of
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Speaker 2: where were you then? Where are you now? Because the
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Speaker 2: body is kind of, you know, a wheel in motion,
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Speaker 2: and wheels in motions sometimes collect different things. They get
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Speaker 2: little stones, little divots we call them, you know, little
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Speaker 2: bumps in your in your psyche. And when you get
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Speaker 2: those bumps, it can cause different twists and turns of
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Speaker 2: how you would have done something maybe before you had
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Speaker 2: the bump or the little divot in your in your wheel,
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Speaker 2: if you will. So a lot of things can trigger
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Speaker 2: old responses, and meaning triggering an old response, you know
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Speaker 2: say you were picked on as a kid in school. Well,
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Speaker 2: now maybe when you're in a relationship someone says something
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Speaker 2: hurtful to you, it takes you back to that moment,
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Speaker 2: and that that's not always the healthiest place to go
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Speaker 2: to because you're older now, you're maybe more of an adult,
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Speaker 2: and there's a better way to come up with moving
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Speaker 2: on as opposed to living in that moment. And so
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Speaker 2: we're going to talk about some of those things. We're
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Speaker 2: also going to talk about what does it really mean
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Speaker 2: when you have brain fog? What does it really mean
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Speaker 2: when you can't concentrate? You know, those kinds of things.
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Speaker 2: They are symptoms, they're not diagnoses, and we often want
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Speaker 2: to find oh, it must be this, Oh it must
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Speaker 2: be that. You know many women either going through different
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Speaker 2: hormonal changes, and this could be early in your twenties,
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Speaker 2: or it could be women who are perimenopause or actually
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Speaker 2: in menopause. I think that they've come down with attention
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Speaker 2: deficit disorder. Attention deficit disorder generally is a diagnosis based
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Speaker 2: on certain symptoms that are found in children with brains
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Speaker 2: that aren't yet developed, and so in those developing the
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Speaker 2: brain hasn't really caught up with the necessary age specifications,
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Speaker 2: and so being diagnosed with attention deficit disorder at twenty five,
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Speaker 2: forty or sixty five, you may fit some of the
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Speaker 2: category and you may even treat with some of the
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Speaker 2: same types of treatment, but not necessarily, and I don't
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Speaker 2: want that to be something that you lock yourself into
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Speaker 2: that diagnosis when in all actuality, if we can improve
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Speaker 2: hormone balance, if we can improve nutrition, if we can
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Speaker 2: improve some of the gaps that maybe you've got a
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Speaker 2: low thyroid. Low thyroid can actually also mimic some symptoms
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Speaker 2: of anxiety, brain fog, inability to concentrate, And so how
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Speaker 2: do we improve a low thyroid and underactive thyroid. It
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Speaker 2: doesn't mean, oh, don't pay attention to that underactive thyroid.
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Speaker 2: I've got attention deficit. So you know, let's jump on
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Speaker 2: the stimulus bandwid There's a lot of things we can
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Speaker 2: do and if we do in mind things like attention deficit,
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Speaker 2: the first word that people generally know about is adderall
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Speaker 2: we're riddling, But there's many really effective medications that can
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Speaker 2: be used if in fact you want to go down
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Speaker 2: the medication route. We're going to talk about a couple
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Speaker 2: of supplements as well, but there's things out there like
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Speaker 2: wand ficine, stratera, quilbry. Those are all called non stimulants,
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Speaker 2: and it doesn't mean they're not driving attention and focus.
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Speaker 2: But what they don't do is drive and wear out
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Speaker 2: your heart and your kidneys. And I'm often catching patients
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Speaker 2: that come in and they, you know, the first line
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Speaker 2: of defense, Well, I can't think I've got brain fog.
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Speaker 2: I must have ADHD, and they forget that the hyperactive
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Speaker 2: is in the ADHD. Maybe you have add maybe your
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Speaker 2: attention is a little off, but at forty five, I
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Speaker 2: don't often see folks that are hyperactive. Now they are
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Speaker 2: out there, but I'm just saying if you come in
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Speaker 2: and you sit calmly and we talk and you pay attention,
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Speaker 2: we maintain good eye contact, that it's not what I
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Speaker 2: would call hyperactives. So it's really important to work on
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Speaker 2: symptoms not just gravitate to a diagnosis code. And that's
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Speaker 2: the thing that a lot of folks, you know, tend
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Speaker 2: to lean into, is here's the diagnosis code, this is
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Speaker 2: what I must have. So keep an open mind along
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Speaker 2: with those types of things too. Know that stimulants, while
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Speaker 2: they can really charge you up. You know, I'm going
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Speaker 2: to kind of give you a comparison of like twelve
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Speaker 2: cups of coffee versus taken adderall both aren't really healthy
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Speaker 2: for you. But stimulants can age the organs in the
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Speaker 2: body five years for every year that you're on a stimulant.
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Speaker 2: That's you know, in the research, and if you happen
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Speaker 2: to be concerned about your skin and how you age gracefully.
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Speaker 2: It also depletes your body of biotinecollagen. And most people
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Speaker 2: don't know that. And when I talk to them about, well,
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Speaker 2: you know, why do you want to stay on this
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Speaker 2: stimulant or why do you want to get on a stimulant?
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Speaker 2: When I explain the other effects, a lot of times
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Speaker 2: folks were gonna they're quick to say, wait, I didn't
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Speaker 2: know that. I just thought it was going to make
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Speaker 2: me get a lot more done in the day. So
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Speaker 2: just know that solving the problem of some symptoms it's
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Speaker 2: not always a quick solution. It's not always a one
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Speaker 2: stop shop. It's not always just take a pill and
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Speaker 2: you're going to get the results you want. Plus the
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Speaker 2: other I will say downside of taking things that energize you,
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Speaker 2: now you can create another problem on the back end,
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Speaker 2: and that's insomnia. And so a lot of times we
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Speaker 2: end up with a stimulant sleep aid or we end
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Speaker 2: up with a stimulant and our anxiety increases. Now, why
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Speaker 2: do you think anxiety might increase when you're on a stimulant.
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Speaker 2: It might be because, like I always talk to you
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Speaker 2: guys on here about you might not really be given
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Speaker 2: your brain enough fuel. And so despite how hard we
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Speaker 2: try to just power through the day without some good nutrients,
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Speaker 2: your brain has built in safety mechanisms to try to
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Speaker 2: go alert, alert, abort. And when you've got a built
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Speaker 2: in mechanism and you're taking a stimulant and you find
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Speaker 2: that you're getting increased anxiety or increased irritability, it very
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Speaker 2: well could be because stimulants do suppress your appetite. Now,
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Speaker 2: that can be a plus for some people or a
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Speaker 2: minus for some people. And so if you're taking something
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Speaker 2: and you're getting an effect, but it's not a desirable effect,
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Speaker 2: and sometimes we'll call it a side effect. But some
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Speaker 2: people want that side effect. Some people don't want to
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Speaker 2: have an appetite, calling them all day to try to
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Speaker 2: limit their eating or overeating. But here's the thing. If
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Speaker 2: you're not getting enough nutrients or nutrition, and you're on
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Speaker 2: a stimulant and you have anxiety, where you have irritability,
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Speaker 2: you are probably starving your brain of its ability to
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Speaker 2: function at its optimum. So do you see why I
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Speaker 2: kind of I hate to say a harp, but I
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Speaker 2: linger on things because I want to make sure you're
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Speaker 2: optimizing your body first, So keep that in mind. So
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Speaker 2: just a couple thoughts there. We've got tons of questions already,
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Speaker 2: so I want to make sure I tap onto some
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Speaker 2: of them. But I guess we'll start with the first one.
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Speaker 2: You know, what if you can't remember when things started, well,
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Speaker 2: you know, it's okay. You don't have to have a
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Speaker 2: perfect memory. And I think it's important to also know
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Speaker 2: that if you meet with a provider or nutritionist or
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Speaker 2: somebody who does functional medicine or functional psychiatry, you want
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Speaker 2: to try to dialogue back to what you do remember.
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Speaker 2: You know, maybe it only started a month ago. Maybe
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Speaker 2: things happened when you were in high school or in
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Speaker 2: your twenties and you just can't remember that. Now, you know,
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Speaker 2: you don't have to be one hundred percent accurate. Our
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Speaker 2: goal is to kind of work you up to what's
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Speaker 2: really pressing now, what's the biggest problem you've had save
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Speaker 2: for the last three or four weeks or the last
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Speaker 2: two or three months. But the history is important as
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Speaker 2: much as you can remember, because there are some things that,
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Speaker 2: like I said, we carry on from either a childhood
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Speaker 2: repressed memory of how we dealt with something or something
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Speaker 2: that caused such a remarkable imprint, not necessarily a trauma,
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Speaker 2: but a remarkable imprint in our mind. And that's where
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Speaker 2: our brain gets stuck and wants us to try to
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Speaker 2: divert and not go down that same pathway. And so
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Speaker 2: our brain will try to take us down the pathway
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Speaker 2: that took us away from a problem that we encountered
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Speaker 2: that was similar. So kind of keep that in mind. Oh,
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Speaker 2: one of the other questions we have here is or
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Speaker 2: any details about what's really off with things? I'm not
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Speaker 2: quite sure if that's kind of a continuation of the
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Speaker 2: first comment, But you know, how do we determine what's
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Speaker 2: really off? I'll just kind of go there if that's helpful.
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Speaker 2: If you are starting to have any kind of impact
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Speaker 2: in your day to day life, say you don't feel
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Speaker 2: as resilient, say you feel like you're stumbling along at work.
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Speaker 2: Say you feel like I'm just so tired in the morning.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what's wrong. If you have symptoms that
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Speaker 2: are impacting you that you notice it, or that are
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Speaker 2: a little worse, they're negatively impacting you, then that's where
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Speaker 2: you need to stop and pay attention and let's start
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Speaker 2: to do some investigation to work right. Because I'll give
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Speaker 2: you an example that's not for some people that are off.
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Speaker 2: I have some people that are very highly skilled and
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Speaker 2: highly functioning and they have a true attention deficit, but
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Speaker 2: it works for them, and so they can multitask and
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Speaker 2: do five or six different things at once. They don't
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Speaker 2: require a lot of sleep, their brain is always always
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Speaker 2: on the go. They always make time to get enough
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Speaker 2: hydration and enough nutrition, and they even fit in a
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Speaker 2: workout often throughout their week. In that case, that is
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Speaker 2: someone who has exhibiting behaviors of an attention deficit individual,
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Speaker 2: but they have been able to optimize their style to
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Speaker 2: be very effective, and so I wouldn't touch that unless
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Speaker 2: they started to find they were failing at something, they
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Speaker 2: were struggling, maybe relationships were becoming an issue, things like that.
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Speaker 2: So it's got to be something that you notice it's
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Speaker 2: just off, not quite right, and it's starting to impact
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Speaker 2: you somewhere in your daily life, or it's impacting you
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Speaker 2: so bad that you're having a dramatic change and you're
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Speaker 2: just I haven't ever been like this, So hopefully that's helpful.
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Speaker 2: When do they change OCD, it was different than it
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Speaker 2: is now, you know, I can't say for sure in
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Speaker 2: terms of how they've changed OCD, but they have changed
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Speaker 2: the DSM five. So there's a tremendous amount of what
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Speaker 2: we call diagnosis codes that if you happen to be
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Speaker 2: very OCD, like where you're constantly thinking and thinking and overthinking,
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Speaker 2: and you have to do certain things before you do
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Speaker 2: other things, or you just obsessed constantly about shining your
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Speaker 2: car or cleaning your kitchen or vacuuming before you go out.
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Speaker 2: You know, some of those symptoms being sort of OCD,
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Speaker 2: like you can't leave the house until you take five
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Speaker 2: steps forward and two back and then you go out
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Speaker 2: the door. You don't want to step on a crack
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Speaker 2: break your mom's back kind of thing. OCD has been
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Speaker 2: broken down into some different different kind of context, if
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Speaker 2: you will, because there's different there's just different facets of it.
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Speaker 2: And we do try to get very specific, you know,
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Speaker 2: in psychiatry to really help address certain types of behaviors.
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Speaker 2: And again, it's the behaviors that become problematic in your
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Speaker 2: day to day life, in your day to day functioning,
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Speaker 2: you know, overthinking, obsessing, it's part of that OCD diagnosis code.
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Speaker 2: When you do habits or behaviors like washing your hands
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Speaker 2: one hundred times when you are in the restroom. Most
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Speaker 2: people will just wash their hands once, but you have
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Speaker 2: to over and over and over, you know, rub and
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Speaker 2: scrub until your hands might become raw. Or you have
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Speaker 2: anxious or nervous movements about your body where you might
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Speaker 2: sit there and just constantly twirl your hair, twirl it
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Speaker 2: so much that your hair comes out. You know, those
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Speaker 2: are behaviors that are just part of that OCD type
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Speaker 2: of makeup. Some people pull out their eyebrows or eyelashes,
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Speaker 2: and each one of those behaviors kind of adds a
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Speaker 2: layer to the OCD diagnosis, so it's not an all
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Speaker 2: or nothing. And that's why today I really wanted to
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Speaker 2: kind of get you into the mindset. The codes, the diagnoses,
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Speaker 2: their examples, they help us to kind of fit you
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Speaker 2: into a criteria. To help best match the symptoms with treatment.
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Speaker 2: And I really struggle sometimes to throw a particular label
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Speaker 2: before I really try to understand when did the symptoms occur,
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Speaker 2: how did the symptoms accumulate, and what kind of problems
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Speaker 2: are they having in your day to day life. And
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Speaker 2: that's kind of what you need to think about. You
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Speaker 2: might be a person in their late fifties early sixties
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Speaker 2: and you've noticed you are only getting four or five
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Speaker 2: hours of sleep at night. You might be twenty five
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Speaker 2: or thirty, and you just don't need that much sleep
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Speaker 2: having that type of sleep pattern unless you feel tired,
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Speaker 2: lethargic and it's a problem for you, or you're finding
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Speaker 2: something that is creating a deficit in your day. You
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Speaker 2: just don't necessarily need seven, six, seven or eight hours,
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Speaker 2: and you don't necessarily need a sleep aid. So keep
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Speaker 2: those things in mind. You know, while there's a lot
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Speaker 2: of similarities for what I would call positive human behavior,
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Speaker 2: we are all vastly different, and so things that don't
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Speaker 2: give us a problem, we don't need to make them one.
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Speaker 2: And just because somebody tells you this is something else
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Speaker 2: that I've heard a lot. Well, I've talked to all
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Speaker 2: my friends and all my friends have XYZ and so,
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Speaker 2: and they think I really have XPIZ two and all
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Speaker 2: my friends are on this medication, and so that's probably
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Speaker 2: what I need.
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Speaker 1: Well.
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Speaker 2: Funny enough, usually when I talk to folks and we
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Speaker 2: we really try to individualize and customize what exactly is
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Speaker 2: it that's going on for you. You need to identify
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Speaker 2: and deal with yourself just how you were made up,
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Speaker 2: because your life experiences could be very different. It could
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Speaker 2: be similar to other peoples, and that's fine too. But
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Speaker 2: what I want you all to realize is I think
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Speaker 2: it's important sometimes have you ever taken a step back
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Speaker 2: and recognized what you do well? And can you excel
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Speaker 2: with the things that you do well and then just
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Speaker 2: turn to the right, turn to the left and look
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Speaker 2: at some of the things that maybe you struggle with
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Speaker 2: as opposed to finding all the things that are wrong
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Speaker 2: and think you're not doing something well and maybe appreciating
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Speaker 2: and finding a lot of value in who you are.
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Speaker 2: You know, that leads into a whole other topic of
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Speaker 2: you know, self esteem and self worth. But regardless of
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Speaker 2: where you are in life, regardless of what your you know,
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Speaker 2: your faith or your beliefs might be, those things can
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Speaker 2: factor into kind of where and who and how you
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Speaker 2: see yourself as a person. But if you stop, and
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Speaker 2: we often talk about, you know, gratitude, positivity, positive affirmations,
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Speaker 2: how to really get your day sets so that you're
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Speaker 2: doing things in a you know, in a positive glass
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Speaker 2: half full way. How many of you really have never
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Speaker 2: stopped to think about what do you do well? You know,
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Speaker 2: I do it myself. I don't think of the things
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Speaker 2: I do well. I just keep going. But when I
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Speaker 2: stop and I go, you know, this was good? That
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Speaker 2: was good. Hey, you know I finished this. But I
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Speaker 2: rarely do it myself. But I'm here to help you,
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Speaker 2: and I try to get good guidance for things when
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Speaker 2: I when I'm pushing you know, too hard as well.
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Speaker 2: But think about it. What do you do well? What
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Speaker 2: do people need to know about you? What does your
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Speaker 2: family need to know about you? I'll give you an example.
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Speaker 2: I have a mom who came to me today. The
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Speaker 2: poor gal was literally in crisis and she needed help immediately.
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Speaker 2: And I was kind of worried because having her, you know,
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Speaker 2: in a telemed you know, zoom call versus right in
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Speaker 2: front of me, even in front of me, when people
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Speaker 2: present with that high level of a crisis and they
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Speaker 2: need help, and they need it now. There's nothing I
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Speaker 2: can do acutely other than get them or suggest that
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Speaker 2: someone get them to a place to really help them
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Speaker 2: when they're in that bit of a crisis date And
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Speaker 2: you know, you may or may not be familiar with that,
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Speaker 2: but let's just say for the most part, you know,
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Speaker 2: you're feeling bad, you're feeling rough, you're feeling like, oh,
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Speaker 2: I got to do something. This is where it's important
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Speaker 2: to try to take time and just do some self
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Speaker 2: assessments and ask yourself some questions. How long have I
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Speaker 2: been feeling that way? Has anybody else ever commented, Hey,
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Speaker 2: you know you're sounding kind of stressed. You're sounding like
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Speaker 2: things aren't going so well. Maybe that's the first step
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Speaker 2: to get a professional opinion. Don't wait till things come
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Speaker 2: off the rails, and I'll use the term you know,
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Speaker 2: you feel a little unhinged. But in looking at this
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Speaker 2: one particular woman, the first fifteen twenty minutes we talked,
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Speaker 2: maybe even almost the first thirty, she was just really unglued.
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Speaker 2: She had a twelve month old in the back of
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Speaker 2: her car. She's forty four years old. She has three
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Speaker 2: adult children, eighteen, twenty and twenty two. So this little
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Speaker 2: guy was kind of a new addition to the family,
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Speaker 2: and she's been doing it all and she recently relocated
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Speaker 2: to the state and she was just at her wits end.
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Speaker 2: She's on medications. But you get a little medical background.
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Speaker 2: She's had some surgeries and a failed stomach bypass gastro
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Speaker 2: bypass for weight loss or diabetes, and so that's a
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Speaker 2: big absorption issue. So when you have lack of absorption,
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Speaker 2: you're on medications, you're in a panic state. You're not hydrating,
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Speaker 2: you're not eating. She's obviously, even if she was eating
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Speaker 2: and hydrating, she has to overcompensate. You're on medications, they're
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Speaker 2: not working, you're going back and forth between where you're
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Speaker 2: leaving from where you're coming to. You got a little
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Speaker 2: guy in the back, and you know she wasn't driving
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Speaker 2: or anything. But here's where she beat herself up because
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Speaker 2: her eighteen year old son wanted to beat her up
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Speaker 2: about being a mom and that she really hurt his
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Speaker 2: feelings and he's making some bad choices now and it's
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Speaker 2: all her fault. Let's just take that as an example.
20:11
Speaker 2: People that are closest to us can really do a
20:14
Speaker 2: number getting to the core of your Achilles heel. And
20:19
Speaker 2: why that's important is because you have to know when
20:23
Speaker 2: to let people in and you have to know when
20:25
Speaker 2: to block people and emotions out. And so as a
20:28
Speaker 2: further example, when I talk about codes and you know
20:32
Speaker 2: what your symptoms are, we can't always put everything into
20:35
Speaker 2: a box. That's why it's so important to understand what
20:38
Speaker 2: is going on in your life and where have you
20:41
Speaker 2: let things in or happen that can really disrupt you.
20:46
Speaker 2: And in the moment it means a whole lot today,
20:49
Speaker 2: but what if other things weren't going on? Could you
20:52
Speaker 2: look at it a little bit more clear and objective,
20:54
Speaker 2: so you know, in that particular example, this woman felt
20:58
Speaker 2: like she couldn't think, she couldn't remember, she had some
21:00
Speaker 2: brain file going on, all these things that kind of
21:02
Speaker 2: take us out of context in a first meeting and
21:05
Speaker 2: even for the show today. You know, it's really hard
21:08
Speaker 2: to wrap a lot of history into what our definitive
21:12
Speaker 2: treatment and symptoms are. But it's important for you to
21:15
Speaker 2: start to take a look back. Look at when the
21:17
Speaker 2: last time you had lab work done, look at what
21:20
Speaker 2: you've been eating, look at what you've been drinking, hopefully
21:24
Speaker 2: you're drinking healthy, you know, because there's other things that
21:27
Speaker 2: weigh in. If you've had alcohol, if you've had a
21:30
Speaker 2: lot of alcohol lately, if you've not been treating your
21:33
Speaker 2: body right, if you've been using other substances. You know,
21:36
Speaker 2: you can't just paint a picture well, I can't think,
21:39
Speaker 2: I can't concentrate. I must have this, I must have that.
21:44
Speaker 2: But yet you are not fueling your body. And if
21:47
Speaker 2: you are not eating well, not hydrating, if you're using alcohol,
21:51
Speaker 2: if you're using any other you know, substance, even marijuana.
21:55
Speaker 2: I have to throw that into the mix today because
21:59
Speaker 2: this particular woman had used marijuana to sleep at night,
22:02
Speaker 2: and then because she wasn't getting relief with medication, she
22:05
Speaker 2: was also drinking. And she's got a little one and
22:08
Speaker 2: she just feels like nobody can help her. So any
22:11
Speaker 2: one of these things can really throw you off. Think
22:15
Speaker 2: about how important your brain is. Your brain is the motherboard,
22:20
Speaker 2: like I always tell you, the brain is the motherboard
22:22
Speaker 2: to your biochemical working of your body. If you don't
22:27
Speaker 2: fuel your body correctly, and you put things into your
22:30
Speaker 2: body in an inappropriate amount, you know, a drink, alcohol,
22:36
Speaker 2: a hit of marijuana, you know, in and of themselves,
22:39
Speaker 2: they're not going to do a tremendous amount of damage
22:41
Speaker 2: to you. But to an excess or to a regularity,
22:45
Speaker 2: you are going to find you're going to increase symptoms
22:47
Speaker 2: that are negatively impacting. Okay, does that make sense? So
22:51
Speaker 2: we've kind of thrown a lot of things around, and
22:54
Speaker 2: I want to put it all back in a little bit.
22:57
Speaker 2: What I'm what I'm going for here is doing a
23:00
Speaker 2: self assessment and really looking at what things have triggered you.
23:04
Speaker 2: What events have happened in your life at home, finances,
23:09
Speaker 2: work relationships, friend relationships, personal relationships, you know those intimate relationships.
23:16
Speaker 2: What things have you allowed into your body? You know,
23:20
Speaker 2: ice cream, a heavy carb diet, lots of sugar, maybe sodas,
23:26
Speaker 2: anything that's not super nutritious. Right, So, if you've got
23:29
Speaker 2: things that you can address to maybe improve, you may
23:33
Speaker 2: start to see some subtle improvements in how you are
23:36
Speaker 2: thinking and absorbing and working through problems with more clarity.
23:41
Speaker 2: And that's where I talk about, you know, the brain
23:43
Speaker 2: fog and the concentration. Now, if you do your assessment,
23:46
Speaker 2: and let's say we haven't done anything yet in terms
23:48
Speaker 2: of like labs or any any formal assessment. That's kind
23:53
Speaker 2: of the next step because if your labs are off,
23:55
Speaker 2: as I mentioned about women earlier and just different hormonal changes,
23:59
Speaker 2: Men and have hormonal changes as well, And if your
24:02
Speaker 2: hormones are off, you could be fighting a drenal fatigue.
24:06
Speaker 2: You could be twenty five or thirty five or older,
24:10
Speaker 2: and your testosterone level could be really low and you
24:13
Speaker 2: don't know it. If you're fatigued, if you're irritable, if
24:17
Speaker 2: you just have low motivation. It doesn't necessarily mean you're depressed.
24:22
Speaker 2: It doesn't necessarily mean you have a tension deficit. Does
24:25
Speaker 2: it start to make sense now why a diagnosis code
24:28
Speaker 2: isn't always the solution to just try to self figure
24:32
Speaker 2: these things out. So it's important to know what goes
24:35
Speaker 2: behind all this stuff. I know some folks have asked
24:39
Speaker 2: about how often do they change the diagnosis codes to
24:42
Speaker 2: the every reevaluate. Oh. Absolutely, They've been changing codes periodically
24:47
Speaker 2: over the years. You know. First we started with the
24:48
Speaker 2: DSM three, then we moved into the DSM four. Now
24:52
Speaker 2: we're in the DSM five. You can google any one
24:55
Speaker 2: of these and currently the most accurate one out there
24:58
Speaker 2: is the DSM five code book and what they've done
25:01
Speaker 2: a better job of is including more things, including a
25:05
Speaker 2: more vast array of symptoms, so that we can really
25:09
Speaker 2: try to figure out what else is going on besides
25:12
Speaker 2: just labeling somebody anxiety, depression, OCD, ADHD, you know, you
25:18
Speaker 2: name it. They have a lot of nice little breakdown
25:21
Speaker 2: subtitles because we can get really specific if we really
25:25
Speaker 2: get to understand the detail of what's going on. So
25:29
Speaker 2: just keep that in mind. And again, the whole point
25:31
Speaker 2: of what I want you to really, you know, take
25:34
Speaker 2: away from here today is you're more than a code.
25:37
Speaker 2: You're more than a set of diagnostic symptoms. So much
25:40
Speaker 2: goes into how you feel, the way you feel, and
25:43
Speaker 2: why you feel the way you feel. I mean, you
25:45
Speaker 2: got to look right down to environment and things that
25:48
Speaker 2: you can move in and out of your life that
25:50
Speaker 2: could be unhealthy. I mean, think about if you're in
25:53
Speaker 2: a house that's old and moldy and you're tired, you're fatigued,
25:57
Speaker 2: you have brain fog and you're getting a lot of
25:59
Speaker 2: sign symptoms, or you're getting sick a lot mold exposure.
26:03
Speaker 2: You remove the mold exposure, you treat the mold exposure,
26:07
Speaker 2: and virtually all mostly all of your symptoms might go away.
26:13
Speaker 2: And so this is why it's so important to not
26:16
Speaker 2: self diagnose. It's okay to have sort of a self idea,
26:20
Speaker 2: but it's more important that you really find somebody good
26:23
Speaker 2: that can help you to really dig apart and keeping
26:27
Speaker 2: an open mind. I'll tell you the other thing that
26:29
Speaker 2: I run into with folks a lot of times they're
26:31
Speaker 2: not very open to different treatment options, and it's important
26:36
Speaker 2: to explore things. One, you cannot throw a pill at everything, okay.
26:41
Speaker 2: And if you come in with an idea that this
26:43
Speaker 2: is what's going on and this is the medication I want, okay, well,
26:47
Speaker 2: that really ties our hands. So be open to hearing
26:51
Speaker 2: what options there are. And we may not start with medications,
26:55
Speaker 2: and we may start with a supplement, we may start
26:58
Speaker 2: with nutrition, we may start with lifestyle change, you know.
27:02
Speaker 2: And I'll jump on some of the things like smoking,
27:05
Speaker 2: alcohol and marijuana. Those are the top questions we ask
27:09
Speaker 2: to try to understand a person's lifestyle. Because if you
27:12
Speaker 2: want to come in and heal brain fog, if you
27:14
Speaker 2: want to come in and calm down anxiety, why do
27:17
Speaker 2: you think we might want you to look at alcohol
27:21
Speaker 2: and marijuana use. And I'll give you the answer, since
27:24
Speaker 2: you all can't respond back to me quickly. But there's
27:28
Speaker 2: a lot of reasons. And if you're having brain fog
27:31
Speaker 2: and anxiety, the a number one competition to frequent marijuana
27:36
Speaker 2: use is that twelve to sixteen hour later rebound of
27:41
Speaker 2: intense and heightened anxiety, paranoia, brain fog, irritability, and inability
27:47
Speaker 2: to cope. So it may put you to sleep, it
27:50
Speaker 2: may feel good while you're actively using it. But again,
27:53
Speaker 2: in order for us to counteract and repair and improve
27:55
Speaker 2: those symptoms, we've got to look at what are you
27:58
Speaker 2: willing to change, And if you're not willing to change, hey,
28:01
Speaker 2: that is totally fine, But then we can't help you.
28:04
Speaker 2: You know, you have to decide how important is it
28:07
Speaker 2: for you to get optimized. Same thing with smoking. I
28:11
Speaker 2: had a person who came in and again he had
28:14
Speaker 2: a history of significant early childhood trauma and a lot
28:17
Speaker 2: of risky behaviors as a teen and a young adult,
28:20
Speaker 2: and then a lot of all different types of drug
28:24
Speaker 2: use and trial and error. And now he was in
28:26
Speaker 2: his early fifties and his life was better cleaned up,
28:30
Speaker 2: great life, great job, great family, and he discovered that
28:34
Speaker 2: he was always looking for something something just wasn't fitting.
28:37
Speaker 2: And you know what calmed him down and helped him
28:39
Speaker 2: the best smoking nicotine. And he didn't understand why he
28:44
Speaker 2: needed to smoke in order to feel better, and he
28:49
Speaker 2: wanted me to fix his nicotine problem. What we needed
28:52
Speaker 2: to fix was his dopamine release problem, because he had
28:55
Speaker 2: a dopamine release transmitter problem that was actually created from
29:00
Speaker 2: the trauma that he endured as a child and then
29:03
Speaker 2: the trauma release mechanism of him developing that trauma response
29:09
Speaker 2: of addiction. And with addiction there's always the run, the pull,
29:14
Speaker 2: the thrill of dopamine, and so when you have that
29:18
Speaker 2: kind of a dopamine drive, nicotine can help calm that down.
29:23
Speaker 2: By the way it vasoconstricts and works with your dopamine receptor,
29:26
Speaker 2: it gives you a lift. So do you all see
29:29
Speaker 2: how related and unrelated it can be to jump and
29:33
Speaker 2: label yourself with a diagnosis code. The other question we
29:38
Speaker 2: had is how do we know what is wrong when
29:42
Speaker 2: so many things have come to the same symptoms. I'm
29:47
Speaker 2: not quite sure if I understand that, But how do
29:49
Speaker 2: we know what's wrong and so many things come to
29:52
Speaker 2: the same symptoms? I think, I think I get what
29:55
Speaker 2: you're asking, So like, there are symptoms that sound like anxiety,
30:00
Speaker 2: there are symptoms that sound like OCD. There are symptoms
30:03
Speaker 2: that kind of mirror with the brain fog that really
30:07
Speaker 2: aren't triggered by anxiety, but because there's hormonal imbalances, we
30:12
Speaker 2: may have similar symptoms. And so yeah, see that you're
30:15
Speaker 2: getting it the part of a diagnosis code. If you look,
30:20
Speaker 2: and I encourage you guys, go google the diagnosis codes,
30:23
Speaker 2: the DSM five and just look at the I mean,
30:26
Speaker 2: it's a book that's thick. I shared it one time
30:27
Speaker 2: when we were live on the show a couple months ago.
30:31
Speaker 2: You can indulge yourself and see all the little subtitles.
30:35
Speaker 2: There are so many overlapping diagnosis codes. You know, I
30:39
Speaker 2: could just what do you want me to do? Label
30:41
Speaker 2: you DSM five. So you're right, and if we've got
30:44
Speaker 2: overlapping symptoms, this is where and I love that you
30:48
Speaker 2: guys are paying attention. This is a great group today.
30:51
Speaker 2: When you have overlapping symptoms, that means we have to
30:55
Speaker 2: really get to the root it's causing these triggers. And
31:00
Speaker 2: the guy with the nicotine. Had we not gone down
31:03
Speaker 2: and figured out what happened to him fifty three years ago,
31:07
Speaker 2: we wouldn't necessarily understand why does he have this strong
31:11
Speaker 2: dopamine drive, why does he have this strong addictive behavior?
31:15
Speaker 2: And you know, while I won't get into all the
31:18
Speaker 2: trauma response with that today, but if you have things
31:22
Speaker 2: that you can dial back and see patterns of behavior
31:25
Speaker 2: in your history of you know, being a kid, to
31:28
Speaker 2: a teenager, to an adult to maybe being a midlife
31:31
Speaker 2: or an older adult, that's how you can improve and
31:35
Speaker 2: heal and really be your best self. And a lot
31:38
Speaker 2: of it does not have to happen with medication alone,
31:42
Speaker 2: and it means you also don't necessarily have to be
31:45
Speaker 2: on medication forever. I'm also going to give you sort
31:48
Speaker 2: of the toolkit today of psychiatry. When you go back
31:52
Speaker 2: to psychiatry's earliest foundations, it was developed through creating behavioral
31:57
Speaker 2: changes through all the different types of psychoanalysis. You've got
32:03
Speaker 2: all of the different leaders who have you know, Freud
32:07
Speaker 2: and all of them. And when you look at the
32:09
Speaker 2: diagnosis of what the field of psychiatry is, it's helping
32:14
Speaker 2: to have that individual find a behavior style that allows
32:18
Speaker 2: us to create a pathway to heal and fix and
32:22
Speaker 2: change the behavior. So secondary to that was the creation
32:27
Speaker 2: of medication to allow us to get some relief of
32:32
Speaker 2: symptoms by sending some neurotransmitters to your brain with the
32:38
Speaker 2: likes of serotonin, dopamine, neurepinephrine, those kinds of things. And
32:44
Speaker 2: when we do that, it allows you to go okay.
32:48
Speaker 2: And working with the behavioral therapist, working with someone in psychiatry,
32:53
Speaker 2: that's why we want you to meet and talk and
32:57
Speaker 2: then go do the homework and then come back and
33:00
Speaker 2: tell us what your responses were and how it felt,
33:02
Speaker 2: because that is how you repair. In psychiatry, we don't
33:07
Speaker 2: just prescribe and say good luck, I'll see in thirty days.
33:11
Speaker 2: Now we see you in thirty days usually because it
33:13
Speaker 2: takes about thirty days for medications to take effect most changes.
33:18
Speaker 2: That's not all medications. Some medications one of my favorite
33:21
Speaker 2: happens to be Wellbutriant. While it's not for everybody, it's
33:25
Speaker 2: a good place for a lot of people. It's generally
33:27
Speaker 2: very positive, engaging, uplifting neurotransmitter. But that works usually in
33:33
Speaker 2: three to five days, so you can start to feel
33:35
Speaker 2: something if we're going in the right direction, and not
33:39
Speaker 2: everybody can tolerate it. So you've got to work with
33:41
Speaker 2: a professional to really find which medication is best for you.
33:45
Speaker 2: And sometimes we will use these medications in pairs because
33:50
Speaker 2: one gives a really good effect, but there's still some
33:53
Speaker 2: leftover symptoms. So they work very well when you pair
33:55
Speaker 2: them up together. Ideally, though, I also want to give
33:59
Speaker 2: you the flip side. I've had patients come to me
34:01
Speaker 2: on six, seven, eight ten medications. And when you've got
34:05
Speaker 2: that kind of a medication mixture, we call it a polypharmacy.
34:09
Speaker 2: You got to wonder what's really working, like are you
34:12
Speaker 2: just a medical cocktail. I want you to learn how
34:15
Speaker 2: to feel your best, and in order to feel your best,
34:18
Speaker 2: we have to learn how to manage and work through
34:20
Speaker 2: and improve symptoms. The other thing that I will share
34:22
Speaker 2: with you, and I have a lot of people that
34:25
Speaker 2: will come in and they'll say, well, I don't understand
34:27
Speaker 2: my prescriber. They gave me these medications. When you put
34:32
Speaker 2: two competing mechanisms of medications in the body, they're always
34:36
Speaker 2: going to fight each other, and they're going to fight
34:39
Speaker 2: each other at some point to the physical and mental
34:42
Speaker 2: detriment of your body. Many of these meds are not
34:45
Speaker 2: necessarily indicated to use for a long period of time.
34:49
Speaker 2: The example would be adderall and xanax. That's like one
34:53
Speaker 2: of the worst combinations. Again, this is my professional opinion.
34:58
Speaker 2: You need to see somebody and talk to them about
34:59
Speaker 2: what you're on. But why are they a problem? Because
35:02
Speaker 2: you're literally doing a nineteen seventies legal cocktail of a
35:06
Speaker 2: stimulant and a depressant, an upper and a downer. And
35:10
Speaker 2: we really try to get away from that because again,
35:13
Speaker 2: that is like the rapid cycle of what's really managing you.
35:17
Speaker 2: Are you managing you or the meds managing you. The
35:19
Speaker 2: other problem is both of these medications are highly addictive
35:23
Speaker 2: to your cellular tissue. And what's so hard is people
35:27
Speaker 2: get labeled, and I don't want you to feel like
35:29
Speaker 2: you have a label. People oftentimes struggle to treat people because, well,
35:33
Speaker 2: you're on a stimulant, you're on a benzodiazepine. Sadly, the
35:38
Speaker 2: medical community, and it's the vast medical community, it's not
35:42
Speaker 2: always psychiatry. In fact, it's oftentimes another prescriber outside of
35:46
Speaker 2: psychiatry that is a jack of all trade and maybe
35:50
Speaker 2: master of one or two, and they'll put patients on
35:54
Speaker 2: benzodiazepines and stimulants in the short term, okay, you'll see
35:59
Speaker 2: how you do. But in the long term, your body
36:02
Speaker 2: becomes very addicted to it, and then you need higher
36:04
Speaker 2: and higher doses, and then when you try to come off,
36:07
Speaker 2: you have such excruciating withdrawal symptoms. It's very difficult, it's painful,
36:11
Speaker 2: and it's hard to watch somebody go through that. Oftentimes,
36:15
Speaker 2: the best bet to detoxify from these medications, if you've
36:19
Speaker 2: been on them a really long time, is to do
36:21
Speaker 2: a little inpatient treatment. There are outpatient treatments. You can
36:25
Speaker 2: go to a provider and we can give you a
36:26
Speaker 2: taper schedule, and then it's the honor system, and it's
36:30
Speaker 2: the it's the mathematical calculation that we cut pills, so
36:34
Speaker 2: a thirty day supply becomes twenty five, becomes twenty, becomes fifteen,
36:39
Speaker 2: and then you have to buy our list of breaking
36:42
Speaker 2: it down, use a pill cutter and cut those pills
36:45
Speaker 2: down so that we can slowly and gently wean you
36:48
Speaker 2: off so you have limited side effects if any. But
36:52
Speaker 2: you know, that's really a tough one too, and we
36:54
Speaker 2: don't want you to be on those medications forever. You
36:56
Speaker 2: shouldn't be. The benzodiazepines toorious for creating early onset Alzheimer's dementia,
37:04
Speaker 2: you start to lose your memory. So if you've got
37:06
Speaker 2: cognitive decline and you're on a benzodiazepine, meet with a
37:10
Speaker 2: professional and talk about safer alternatives. We can work to
37:14
Speaker 2: get you to a better place. And it's amazing when
37:17
Speaker 2: I get people down and off of these medications, how
37:20
Speaker 2: clear their thinking becomes. And because they've been in this
37:24
Speaker 2: cloud for three, four, five, ten, twelve, twenty years, they
37:28
Speaker 2: just don't think it's possible that they can feel better
37:31
Speaker 2: because the medication is driving their brain function. So keep
37:36
Speaker 2: that in mind. It's a really important thing to know.
37:39
Speaker 2: And you shouldn't be judged, you should be treated, and
37:43
Speaker 2: in treating you, we want to find the most gentle
37:45
Speaker 2: way possible, not particular to the psychiatry community, but that's
37:51
Speaker 2: another topic for another day. We did talk on here
37:53
Speaker 2: once before about Kreatom. Creatim's over the counter and Creatim
37:57
Speaker 2: has such intense withdrawal that many people can't tolerate it,
38:02
Speaker 2: and they really would be best served doing like a
38:04
Speaker 2: three four week intense inmpatient facility to get off creative.
38:09
Speaker 2: Creatim is so easy to get caught up into and
38:12
Speaker 2: it is so extremely hard. Typically people won't have the
38:17
Speaker 2: near fatal experiences if you try to tape off like
38:22
Speaker 2: a benzo Benzo dazepines. You really have to monitor carefully
38:25
Speaker 2: and stimulants too, but the benzos are the worst and
38:28
Speaker 2: they really need to be monitored so you don't have
38:30
Speaker 2: withdrawal side effects that are you know, sometimes you really
38:34
Speaker 2: need to go to the emergency room if you don't
38:36
Speaker 2: feel well when you're tapering. But Creative is it's out
38:39
Speaker 2: there and it's it's not managed at all, and it's
38:42
Speaker 2: really sad because it's hurting a lot of people. But
38:45
Speaker 2: the good news is, and I want to kind of
38:47
Speaker 2: give us the last you know, ten minutes or so
38:50
Speaker 2: on the show to follow up with any questions. I
38:53
Speaker 2: think some folks had a few questions here that I
38:55
Speaker 2: didn't answer. What I want you to really walk away
39:00
Speaker 2: with is you've got to know how to learn your
39:03
Speaker 2: body and if you are in any way struggling, if
39:06
Speaker 2: life's getting ahead of you, if stress is getting ahead
39:09
Speaker 2: of you, if you are feeling like you don't know
39:11
Speaker 2: where to turn, you know, reach out. Well. I hear
39:15
Speaker 2: people all the time tell me how hard it is
39:17
Speaker 2: to get an appointment. You can certainly look to us
39:20
Speaker 2: to help get you a referral. You can go into
39:22
Speaker 2: magnoiabewellness dot com. We can kind of point you in
39:25
Speaker 2: the direction of either an online provider or a provider
39:29
Speaker 2: in your community. There's a lot of great online think
39:33
Speaker 2: tanks that offer psychiatry, therapy, mental health. There's mind Bloom,
39:39
Speaker 2: there's growth Therapy dot Com. There's all kinds that are
39:42
Speaker 2: out there. I will tell you one of the best
39:45
Speaker 2: centers around that I have the opportunity to really work
39:50
Speaker 2: with and treat patients using transcranial magnetic therapy as Serenity
39:54
Speaker 2: Serenity Mental Health Centers. There's about thirty five centers across
39:58
Speaker 2: the country and in those centers they deal with all
40:01
Speaker 2: types of treatment for individuals to help manage them with medication,
40:06
Speaker 2: but with the long term goal of really utilizing non
40:10
Speaker 2: medicinal approaches with a very innovative and very well tested,
40:15
Speaker 2: very well researched treatment of transcranial magnetic therapy. It is
40:20
Speaker 2: not shock therapy, it's not electrical, it's magnetic. But imagine
40:24
Speaker 2: a life of getting off of medications and the treatments
40:27
Speaker 2: take about thirty six visits and if you measure them out,
40:31
Speaker 2: it comes out to be eighteen hours of your life
40:34
Speaker 2: to help heal and work on a lifetime of depression, anxiety, abuse,
40:40
Speaker 2: whatever it might be, of marijuana, you name it. And
40:45
Speaker 2: the treatment does work. It's highly effective. About ninety percent
40:49
Speaker 2: of the time. You don't have to come back in
40:51
Speaker 2: for a follow up in terms of treatment. We always
40:53
Speaker 2: want to follow you and make sure that you do
40:55
Speaker 2: well down the road, but you can get one hundred
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Speaker 2: percent of an effective relief immediately after the thirty six
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Speaker 2: visits and ninety percent of the people do not need
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Speaker 2: to follow up treatment. Some people come in a year
41:07
Speaker 2: or five years later and kind of check in. There
41:09
Speaker 2: are people who do have some resistance and they enjoy
41:13
Speaker 2: the treatment so much they look to do treatment, you know,
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Speaker 2: in three or six months and kind of get a
41:19
Speaker 2: second level. You know, we can build upon the treatment.
41:22
Speaker 2: So that is something to look out there for, and
41:25
Speaker 2: that is at Serenity Mental Health Centers. You can google
41:28
Speaker 2: that as well. They're across the nation and it's a
41:31
Speaker 2: wonderful way to treat and heal. I happen to be
41:34
Speaker 2: at one of the ones here in Florida and it
41:37
Speaker 2: gives me an added benefit to be able to help
41:39
Speaker 2: people holistically. So for your benefit, you know, reach out.
41:43
Speaker 2: I want you, guys to do a self assessment, and
41:47
Speaker 2: that means taken some time to do some mindfulness. We
41:51
Speaker 2: talk about ways to ground and how to relax and
41:54
Speaker 2: how to decompress. I want you to take some time
41:58
Speaker 2: in the next day, maybe today, maybe after the show,
42:01
Speaker 2: go step outside. Hopefully it'll be a quiet area for you.
42:05
Speaker 2: And I want you to use your five senses and
42:07
Speaker 2: I want you to think, smell, listen, taste, what's in
42:12
Speaker 2: your mouth, feel and hear, and when you do so,
42:16
Speaker 2: go through sort of a body system scan from head
42:20
Speaker 2: to toe and just kind of self check. How's my head?
42:24
Speaker 2: Do I feel anything on the top of my head?
42:26
Speaker 2: Work your way down your shoulders, move your shoulders, kind
42:28
Speaker 2: of feel if your tents are tight. Move yourself down
42:31
Speaker 2: your body. Do you have any tightness in the belly.
42:33
Speaker 2: Do you feel like you're taking take at a nice
42:35
Speaker 2: deep breath, and how are you feeling. Are you feeling tense,
42:38
Speaker 2: tight an your chest tightness? Work your way down a
42:41
Speaker 2: little further. What's your gut telling you? The gut is
42:45
Speaker 2: the gateway to the brain. And vice versa. And the
42:47
Speaker 2: gut brain connection is huge. And if you've got any
42:51
Speaker 2: irritability in your gut, irritable bellve, you've got cramping, you've
42:55
Speaker 2: got digestion issues, all those things are fed by your brain.
43:01
Speaker 2: And that may mean you've got some anxiety or irritability
43:04
Speaker 2: or something unsolved going on. It doesn't mean it's time
43:07
Speaker 2: for you to take a prilosec. Right, you can and
43:10
Speaker 2: it might help you. But why don't you figure out
43:13
Speaker 2: why you've got the gut issue? You know, did it
43:15
Speaker 2: just come on or has it been something that you've
43:17
Speaker 2: been worried about things, stressed about things? And then continue
43:21
Speaker 2: on down your body. You know, are your thighs sword?
43:23
Speaker 2: Do you have pain in your lower back? A lot
43:25
Speaker 2: of time when you have pain in your back, your
43:27
Speaker 2: lower back, your hip, you're holding onto unresolved trauma or
43:31
Speaker 2: pain of something, a loss. Continue on down your body.
43:34
Speaker 2: What do your knees feel like? How about your ankles?
43:37
Speaker 2: Do your toes move freely? And if you're in the
43:40
Speaker 2: dirt or the ground or the sand, you know, given
43:42
Speaker 2: a minute, it can be very grounding to let the elements,
43:46
Speaker 2: the positive negative flow of the earth refill you and
43:49
Speaker 2: recharge you. And as you stand there and you take
43:51
Speaker 2: a deep breath, really evaluate, am I okay? What can
43:55
Speaker 2: I do to feel better? What's worrying me? What's stressing me?
43:58
Speaker 2: Have I given myself a compliment today? Have I given
44:02
Speaker 2: myself credit for what I've survived through these last five years?
44:05
Speaker 2: Have I given myself credit or how I'm doing today?
44:08
Speaker 2: People very quickly and very easily want to tell you
44:11
Speaker 2: what you're not doing, But why don't you tell yourself
44:13
Speaker 2: what you are doing? It's really important to do that
44:16
Speaker 2: also too. We'll have coming up on the show, and
44:19
Speaker 2: you know, just a couple more weeks we will have again.
44:22
Speaker 2: We do a lot of stuff with nutrition, supplements, vitamins.
44:25
Speaker 2: I want you to really think about how do you
44:27
Speaker 2: fuel your body? And if you're not fueling your body
44:30
Speaker 2: to optimize and feel good, why not if you don't
44:33
Speaker 2: feel your best, if you've got symptoms, if you're sad, depressed, anxious, irritable, thinking,
44:38
Speaker 2: thinking overthinking, did you ever stop to think if maybe
44:41
Speaker 2: you start changing what you put in your body, you
44:43
Speaker 2: might feel better. How many of you drink one or
44:45
Speaker 2: two bottles of water a day? You have to get
44:48
Speaker 2: half your body weight and ounces a day, and coffee
44:50
Speaker 2: and tea don't count. So if you have a protein
44:53
Speaker 2: drink and if you have four or five bottles of water, okay,
44:55
Speaker 2: you're on your way. But it also depends on how
44:58
Speaker 2: much you weigh. If you're one hundred pounds, you need
45:00
Speaker 2: fifty ounces of good fluid. You're two hundred pounds, you
45:03
Speaker 2: need one hundred ounces of good fluid a day. And
45:05
Speaker 2: if you're working out and you're exercising, or you're out
45:09
Speaker 2: and you're doing a lot of physical work, you need
45:10
Speaker 2: to add to that. And as a general rule of thumb,
45:13
Speaker 2: just remember I tell you guys this all the time.
45:16
Speaker 2: You need your body weight in grams daily. If you
45:20
Speaker 2: are at your optimum weight, then you need that number.
45:23
Speaker 2: If you are overweight, you want to pick what your
45:25
Speaker 2: optimum weight would be, and say your optimum weights one
45:28
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty pounds, then you need to go no
45:30
Speaker 2: higher than one hundred and fifty pounds one hundred and
45:33
Speaker 2: fifty grams of protein a day. You won't gain weight
45:37
Speaker 2: doing that. Now, the caveat to that is if you
45:39
Speaker 2: start eating more protein and not just drinking lean, clean
45:43
Speaker 2: protein drinks, which is fine. I want you to eat
45:45
Speaker 2: chicken steak, you name it. Don't add the bun, don't
45:49
Speaker 2: add the ketchup, don't add all the things that add
45:52
Speaker 2: to weight gain. Just get it lean and clean. Cut
45:55
Speaker 2: out the bread, cut out the pasta, cut out the rice,
45:59
Speaker 2: and if you can you can't cut it out, at
46:01
Speaker 2: least change your portions. Okay, those are just some general
46:04
Speaker 2: rules of thumb. I did want to remind you guys,
46:07
Speaker 2: because we've been talking about this all week as we
46:09
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46:13
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46:17
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48:02
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48:23
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48:27
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48:29
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48:33
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48:36
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48:39
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