Anyone finding therapy helpful?

I'm thinking about the same thing and trying to find someone near me in NJ. I know I have some depression on days when I'm in the most pain and it feels like I'm just wasting my life.

But I also realized that I'm fixated and almost obsessed with my life just before I got really sick. On the one hand, it was a job I loved, but, on the other hand, it was too much physical and mental stress. It was my first management job and I guess I sometimes feel like I couldn't cut it. But then I have so much anger at some of the people there, too. I really just need to let it go and come to grips with my life now. Sigh.

Hope you find someone soon. Glad you're looking...it's no fun going through all this mental anguish. Sending happy thoughts your way.

I'm very sorry for your struggles, 10LymeB. Life is challenging enough, without having Lyme Disease heaped on top. I hope you're able to find someone/something helpful.

While I don't have any knowledge about Lyme-specific therapists, I wanted to mention a type of therapy that I've heard good things about and may be worth your researching online.

The therapy is called Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy.

www.emdria.org/?page=emdr_therapy

In the upper-right corner of the above web page, there's a big, blue "FIND A THERAPIST" button that will allow you to search for practitioners in your area, should you decide to give EMDR a try. I find that most therapists - regardless of speciality - will offer a free 15-30 minute phone consultation, to see if the two parties might be a good fit.

Best of luck!

Great conversation -

A Lyme-literate counselor is so very valuable. Totally agree w/ jrpsf - a chronic illness specialist is grat. But if you can't find one, just find one you like - that's the most important thing. Talk about your treatment and how you're feeling, they can learn from you.

I strongly encourage people who are experiencing depression, anxiety, Lyme rage, etc... to consider the triggers for Neurotransmitter imbalances--endocrine imbalances, gut dysbiosis (remember the gut-brain connection), toxins in gut or brain, etc.

These infections can cause these neurotransmitter symptoms but they can also exacerbate problems that were already there, no doubt. It's good to recognize this and take note as you are evaluating your response to treatment. This is often herxing and detoxing often helps.

Detoxing -
- Binders, binders, binders... I think these NT symptoms are so often the toxic effects of gut problems and most people have no idea. If I had only known this before Lyme & co!!! The better you address your gut issues, these symptoms often become much less of an issue. And as you're in the process of GI healing, binders can help remove toxins that can also effect brain function. A happy gut is a good mood, I like to say.

- brain detox is also helpful. I like Pinella and Burbur - I increase these when I'm starting to feel off or the herxing kicks up.

Sometimes, if the stress gets too much and the depression or anxiety gets out of hand, and detoxing and support doesn't help... it's OK to turn to meds. I know less about these meds but there are people out there who can help guide you to the least addictive, most supportive meds. Sometimes you need to reduce the noise elsewhere so you can get through treatment with minimized stress. Stress is probably the most damaging to our bodies.

And continue to post and share. I think that's really helpful for many people.

-p

bluelyme said...
Better to treat than let it get worse ,als ms alzheimers parkensons are all spirocheatal diseases imo...

Agree 100% that many of those cases ARE treatable if caught early enough. If people only knew... People don't realize this but all are "clinical diagnoses" just like Lyme & Co. Also, MS was originally considered an infectious disease and treated as such. Once the auto-immune drugs were developed, pharma took over and...well...Most MDs pursue MS dx w/ meds instead of investigating Lyme & Co now.

Congratulations on your vacay blue!!! Well-earned.

-p

Blue...so happy to hear that you are getting better! Glad you got to go on a nice vacation too!

If you have the money for therapy then yes I'd def recommend it. I have had one hell of a ride and therapy helps a lot for me. It takes a while to notice a difference but if you start going once a week you'll notice a difference in a month. I've been going to therapy off and on for the past year or so. The lyme has caused a lot of anxiety and depression for me and I have a hard time managing it.

I used Psychokinesiology from dr. Klinghardt. Results come incredibly fast, and rather deep, depending on the problem...

He uses MFT ( mental field technique) with Psychokinesiology. What is nice is that the BODY is connected to the mind, so quite many symptoms, pain, blockades are caused by psycho blockades, and in the end, you can also treat that too.

Look for PK trained practitioners, maybe call Sophia Institute or so?

Here in Germany - Switzerland there are a few.

The PK practitioners sometimes have done ART courses too, so they can help you measure your supplements, lyme herbs, medicine etc too.

PK is coupled sometimes with Family Therapy following Hellinger, which is also a very deep type of treatment, going sometimes back to a few generations... But usually, most treatments are based on suggestions (looks like hypnosis), rapid eye movement treatments, color therapy and stuff like that.

I did not look for those treatments, but my practitioners were versed in PK, so they saw when some psycho problem came block my healing...

I highly recommend PK !! Fast, rather deep, not too invasive. I think some problems of mine would have taken years to solve.... What is nice is that sometimes they ask you to rate the pain, anxiety, etc. You give a note, let's say emotional pain, from 0 (no pain) to 10 (unbearable pain).

You give, let's say, 6 for you pain at the moment you talk to the practitioner.
Then you do a treatment for that problem, all kinesiologically tested, something that cancels that pain. Theoretically. Then you do some MFT, or whatever the tools the therapist use.

You breathe deep, wait 30 seconds (sometimes you need that time to let the transformation set in), then he asks again to give a rate for the pain. If the note goes down, let's say 3, it means the treatment is going on the good way.

Who gives the notes is the patient. And it is sometimes impressive, in my experience. Next session, you sometimes don't even remember what you were treating in the previous session!!

Does it look crazy and incredible? Yes, absolutely. If anyone had told me that before I went through it myself, it would be hard to believe.

It's not a coincidence many of his patients improve fast.

So again, if you find anyone practicing Klinghardt's PK, I would give a try!!

What are these binders everyone talks about? I can't afford a Lyme specialist, so trying to treat myself. I asked in a couple of other posts but got no response