CELEBRATING INTEGRATIVE HOLISTIC
PRACTICE
By Julian
McCusker Dixon
PG Dip Health (case management)
Charter of Health Practitioners, assessment
committee,
Auckland Horticultural Council Committee
Auckland University mental health Assessment
Committee
Consultant Advocate Psychiatric Survivors Inc
What if the hypothesized causes of
serious mental illness including the dopamine theory on schizophrenia or
serotonin theory on depression are incorrect. **(Nancy C Andreasen MD; PhD,
2002 Brave New Brain). The research and clinical results in numerous
articles and books over the last 10 years fully support the assessment.
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Why are more people diagnosed as
mentally sick, with such high numbers being treated with dopaminergic and
serotoneargic drugs?
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Why as we talk about recovery, we
never talk about the discovery that there is no existing formula to cure mental
illness?
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Why is it clinicians prescribe
psychotropic drugs to heavily deregulate major dopamine and serotonin pathways
in order to balance never proven imbalances?
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Why does New Zealand have the highest
suicide rate for young people amongst OECD countries with 80% plus of the 550
suicides in NZ in 2010 relate to mental health?
Why
are we so indifferent to the inhumanity of obsession with drugs to medicate
without due consideration of the effects of effective nutrition?
Let nutrition
be your medicine. Medication is not just a side effect – it is the effect. Many
ethical and humanitarian controversies in biological psychiatry seeks to take
away the nature of the brain’s reward system causing motivational and
behavioral toxicity. Termed a “chemical lobotomy”- symptoms not unlike cocaine
or heroin, with the same inherent dependence and addiction. Such motivational
toxicity is not unlike that which disables cohorts of recreational medication
that impacts the physical, emotional, psychological, cognitive and behavioral
ability, even
incapacitating and disabling to the point of paranoia. What would you expect from
mind altering and potent disabling medication?
Increased
dosages encourage metabolic disorders eg; diabetes, nervous disorder, eg
paranoia, cardiovascular and neurological dysfunction, a synergy additionally
confused by atypical antipsychotics and SSRI antidepressants.
We need to get
back to basics and common sense-to become active and educative in integrative
holistic practices. Youth workforce development celebrates holistic
determinants that effectively deal with patients and offer guidelines and not
just prescriptions for any given situation. Each person is unique depending on
his/her genetic makeup, nutritional health status, and lifestyle practices
which may vary in responses to any given situations. How do we find the tools
to define exactly what a patient needs, means addressing where the person
requires metabolic detoxification.
Knowing what
type of support is most appropriate to the history and physical assessment, is
available. Any biochemical alterations change the capacity of specific body
detoxification pathways and can alter other such things as intestinal
permeability; eg; medications may suppress specific detoxification
enzymes. Some enzymes may induce
specific detoxification enzyme pathways that result in recurrent headaches and
other allergy symptoms. Alterations in intestinal permeability may result in
selective nutritional deficiency due to mal absorption, and further aggravating
problems of intestinal permeability. What are we doing to address symptoms and
conditions from the taking of additional therapeutic amounts of aspirin;
ibuprofen, allergy medication, or other exposures to what might be harmful
chemicals that cause alterations or depletions? Developing symptoms can be due
to toxic accumulation that brings problems in organ systems including
musculoskeletal, immune, endocrine, cardio-vascular, genitor-urinary and
nervous system disorders. These are just some of the questions we will address
in our upcoming seminar. Integrating holistic practice is about the whole
person, the unique individual. We celebrate the opportunity and the challenge
that makes healing an enjoyable journey.
Join us on
Friday and Saturday July 27th-28th 2012 at the Auckland Horticultural Centre and
discover the method in the, madness…
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