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There appear to be 0 fixes for these conditions. High suicide rates too, higher than even regular depression or mental health conditions
https://time.com/6186429/suicide-long-covid/
Many people have developed this stuff and the problem is conventional treatments do not work. Many have horrific reactions to SSRI drugs and stimulants which end up blunting even more. There are 0 options in psychiatry. Only thing I see is long term benzos. Many get relief from GABA drugs but zuranolone isnt approved
Its not a personality disorder. Therapy does not cure the condition and when people are suicidal it can CBT can even be harmful gaslighting. These conditions are not psychosomatic. They are real and the negatobe thinking patterns are completely justified with horror symptoms of anhedonia or being bedbound.
Clearly these disorders are complex gut immune brain and mitochondria dysfunction. But no therapeutics target this. And some are suicidal daily as soon as they develop CFS or anhedonia the same week. From normalcy to rock bottom. Its traumatic
What are you doing to treat this? Just ECT if patients cannot wait and are about to jump off a cliff, especially if serotonergic antidepressants and stimulants actually are worsening symptoms or causing anhedonia?
For me even accidental caffeine in a drink is enough to cause stimulant blunting and crash my anhedonia into crisis mode. I can tolerate Armodafinil surprisingly but not caffeine. And when my anhedonia crashes badly I cannot feel gabapentin, benzo or Armoda either. Its a big issue.
Going to hospital is useless because most are not equipped to deal with the degree of medical complexity in my issue.
Propofol in an endoscopy in May did 80% relieve my anhedonia for a day. But its not easy to find propofol infusions. TMS and Ketamine didnt work.
Medically what should be explored? I have seen special doctors done tons of tests and most findings are non specific:
High MMP9, High IgE and ECP/eosinophils, 1 time had high CRP but came down, gut dysbiosis/SIBO, low IgM and low IgG3, low NK cells.
Cunningham Panel and Celltrend panels were positive. Now these are not mainstream but given my unique case I am starting to wonder if actually this is the issue
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