--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@...> wrote:
>
> Utterly fascinating review-cum-ruminations by neurologist/
> psychiatrist Oliver Sacks of a book written by a father about
> his daughter ten years after she appeared to go suddenly
> insane. May or may not have any relevance to anything
> currently taking place on FFL:
>
> http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2008/sep/25/a-summer-of-madness/
>
Fascinating. My older son became pscyhotic about 11 years ago due to "thryoid
storms." The doctors never thought to test for thyorid malfunction and he went
through over a year of off and on intense anxiety, shaking hands, racing heart,
and off and on mild psychosis. Finally diagnosed as very severe, near-deadly
hyperthyroidism. Treated easily with meds, but took a few years before his
system recovered and healed. When mental problems present, physical causes
should ALWAYS be ruled out first. In my son's case, they thought he had
performance anxiety and so never checked for physical causes! (He was a
pianist). Then wondered if he had psychotic depression. Finally figured it
out, thank God.
