What comes after being able to come off medications? The healing process and what is required to remain well and reach robust health is a process that is little understood. Dr. Alice W. Lee-Bloem explores the patterns of healing and the need for continued progress even after stopping one’s medications. [...]
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I am a 17 year old male who had been diagnosed with ADHD in the seventh grade and after a year was diagnosed with major depression. Initially, I took a stimulant medication that made me vomit every time I took it, and the doctor told me to eat food with it, but no matter what I did, it still didn’t feel right. A year after starting the stimulant medication, I was started on an antidepressant for depression. When I did well on it, the doctor took me off of it after a year, but the withdrawals led me to become very depressed, and I overdosed on half the bottle of antidepressant and was hospitalized. I ended up needing three times the original dosage of antidepressant just to get restabilized. By the time I met Dr. Lee-Bloem, both my stimulant and antidepressant dosage were three times the normal recommended dosage. The worst thing was that, despite all the medications, I was starting to get depressed. I hated taking all the medications. They messed up my sleep, appetite, and mood. The medications were giving me a lot of anxiety, and I started to self-medicate with marijuana on a regular basis during my junior year in high school. I felt flat, apathetic, and irritable. I was very hard to live with at home, and I argued with my parents all the time. With the addition of the marijuana, I lost my motivation to do my school work. My grandmother was really sick, and she was seeing Dr. Lee-Bloem and was able to lower her medications and do very well. So I told my mother that I wanted to see Dr. Lee-Bloem also. Continue reading Healing from ADHD, Depression, and Marijuana Abuse Through Natural Treatment at Seventeen I was a straight ‘A’ student in middle and high school. I was on the Honor Roll almost every month; the school gave me a lot of awards and even gave me a scholarship to continue my studies. But after I had graduated from high school in August 2002 that was when my bipolar problem started to show more and more. Continue reading Bipolar But Not Budging: A Reluctant Patient’s Recovery Story When I first began to use nutritional supplements to help heal mental health problems, I knew of one supplement. It was, fortunately, quite effective. However, several years later, my knowledge of nutraceutical companies and the varieties of supplements now fill six pages of type, and that is only a partial list. Along with my greatly expanded knowledge of supplements has come a new problem: increasing cost for more complex supplement regimens. Energy when applied by an energy healer cannot be seen, cannot be measured, cannot be touched. Yet people who work in the field of energy medicine continue to use this approach and tout its effectiveness. From seemingly out of “nothing” comes a force that heals. Over the course of several years, I have provided energy healing for patients through a variety of methods. One method, that of sending healing energy through the palms of my hands, has garnered for me an interesting list of sensory experiences reported to me by patients. I believe that it is helpful to catalogue these sensory experiences as a way to further our understanding of the existence of healing energy. |
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