Wow - glad the doctors finally caught that, and that your son was able to stabilize his thyroid.
--- In [email protected], "wayback71" <wayback71@...> wrote: > > > > --- 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. >
