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Wheat and Dairy and Endorphins -- Oh My! On Borderline Personality Disorder, the History of the DSM and Psychiatry
Thu, 01/10/2013 - 12:47pm
Wheat and dairy's contributions to illnesses of the body (and that includes brain/mind), is a primary concern in my work consulting with people or educating via the vehicle or 'platform' of Lumigrate.com. Since these are two staples that the majority of Americans have enjoyed, excessively in many cases, having learned about them from our families as children and passed down for many generations, they've simply become part of our daily lives. They are also part of our holiday and special occasion traditions.
When I speak with people about this, 'it makes sense' to them when I put it in perspective of what our distant, primitive ancestors ate, and how long it takes our genes to adapt to changes. Important to remind we all have different mixes of these genes I'm referring to.
The fascinating realm of 'epigenetics' comes into play here, which essentially looks at aspects of genes which change more rapidly. Identical twins, for instance, who eat differently will appear to look non identical and they will have different wellness/illness realities. In a year of overabundance at harvest, wellness/illness didn't change in the gorgers that wintertime, nor in thier children, but in the next generation after. These are things I have read in recent years in sources such as National Geographic and Time, respectively, and were part of what shifted my awareness and lead me to have the focus on this today, which I share with you. here
But the resource I want to direct your attention to is Emily Deans, MD, a Massachusets psychiatrist who is studying a subset of 'evolutionary medicine' called 'evolutionary psychiatry'. She has a most fascinating blogsite and I highly encourage people to consider further exploration there if you like what you find.
In her piece titled "Love and Opium", she ties together adverse childhood experiences/childhood trauma with information about opiate receptors in the brain, endorphins that are created in the body the brain 'enjoys', and thankfully brings into the conversation how wheat and dairy play into this equation.
To put it in my own words, based on information I have learned from Lumigrate's current primary environmental medicine expert, Marc Spurlock, MD, there is a reaction that occurs in the body whenever a person eats a food that their body is sensitive or allergic to, which causes a reaction that is essentually inflammation, which affects all kinds of things in the entire body from bones to brain cells.
The brain ends up with a chemical floating around in it that hits the receptors in a way that makes the brain say 'yay', even though the food is causing inflammation in the body and wreaking havoc by causing all sorts of things that pull the person from the natural state of 'chronic wellness' to having 'chronic illness'.
One half of all Americans are diagnosed with at least one chronic illness, and naturally many people have illnesses such as personality disorders or complex illnesses such as fibromyalgia which are going undiagnosed and therefore are not captured in the statistics.
So when you look around and say 'What is going on? Why does it seem like EVERYONE has SOMETHING wrong about them related to behavioral wellness or more physical wellness, perhaps look at what's on their forks or in their drink glasses. And I suggest people take an honest look closest to home, and begin the process or continue the process of 'intentional consumption'.
Live and Learn. Learn and Live Better! ~~ Mardy
Below is a portion of "Love and Opium", by Emily Deans, MD which I selected to share here from her website/blog "Evolutionary Psychiatry". I encourage you to use as a resource for learning. Link: evolutionarypsychiatry.blogspot.com/2010/08/love-and-opium.html (I have only modified it here to make the paragraphs shorter and easier to read for people with brain dysfunction or fatigue, and any punctuation changes to make it more readable. I also bolded the key concepts that I wanted to 'leap off the page' to the readers. Since many people using Lumigrate have chronic illnesses which impact brain/cognitive function, I have taken those liberties and trust that Dr. Deans will approve of the practice if it helps her important information not only be seen, but read and understood, by the people it can directly benefit.
In psychiatry we have a a whole recipe book of diagnoses called the DSM IV-TR. The original DSM was derived from an army handbook used by psychiatrists in WWII, some derived from handbooks developed by the Germans from their observations in the late 19th century, and a lot of the rest derived from psychoanalytic thinking.
In the DSM I (1952), there were two kinds of illnesses, for the most part, psychosis and neurosis. Psychotic illnesses were defined by a break from reality (as in paranoid or religious delusions in schizophrenia or manic psychosis), and neurotic illnesses were considered to be reactions to psychological stressors and events.
There is also currently a category of illness that has to do with coping skills and temperament called the "personality disorders." It's not a particularly good term and I wish they had thought of another - "I'm sorry, the diagnosis is that your personality is disordered" is not a particularly useful approach to helping people.
For the longest time, it was thought that psychotic illnesses were more genetic/organic, and neurotic illnesses (such as depressive illness, or post-traumatic stress disorder) were reactions to stress and more amenable to treatment by psychotherapy.
A type of personality disorder called "borderline personality disorder" was an exception to the neurotic rule - those afflicted tended to unravel and even appear to be psychotic while receiving the old-fashioned on the couch free association type of therapy called psychoanalysis. That's where the name "borderline" came from in the first place - it was thought to be on the "borderline" between psychosis and neurosis.
What is borderline personality disorder? It describes a type of temperament and coping, usually in women but found in men also, where someone is highly sensitive, prone to dramatic relationships, depression, anxiety, addiction, eating disorders, and self-injurious behavior such as cutting. It is very common, with nearly 6% of the population affected.
Unlike depression, which tends to come and go over the years, personality disorder symptoms are more stable and chronic, though for most people, borderline symptoms do tend to get better over the decades as we live and learn. It most often develops in someone who was abused as a child, but people can have it without ever being abused. Usually it happens in those cases when there is a mismatch of temperament between parent and child.
More modern types of therapy can be helpful for the symptoms, but you can only imagine what it must have been like to have borderline personality disorder and to feel unsure and anxious, free associating on the couch while your therapist said very little back in the psychoanalytic days.
That kind of therapy would be like re-experiencing the neglect and abuse of childhood in its own way, and that is why psychoanalysis made borderline personality disorder worse. Ultimately, borderline and some of the other personality disorders can get better as people learn to feel worthy and loved.
But, like everything else, we've discovered that even the personality disorders have biological underpinnings. I'm not sure why people continue to be surprised by these findings - it all happens in our bodies, and is thus mediated by biochemistry. In the case of borderline personality disorder, a paper and editorial in this month's American Journal of Psychiatry explore a link between borderline symptoms and opiate receptors.
We all have opiate receptors. They are activated by our natural endorphins, and can help with pain relief and relaxation. Opiate receptors are also activated by opiates, derived from the opium poppy - morphine, oxycodone, heroin, vicodin, percocet, etc. etc. etc. There are opiate activators found in certain varieties of food, most notably wheat (the exorphins) and milk (beta casein A1).
We can increase our own endorphin activity through several behaviors -
- exercise
- binging
- binging and purging and
- self-injury (While self-injury is a risk factor for eventual suicide, in general people do not engage in cutting as a suicide attempt, but rather the painful act relieves anxiety and focuses psychic pain on a physical level). The placebo effect is also thought to be mediated through activation of the endorphin system (1).
In the paper, scientists measured how an opiate binder called [11C] carfentanil showed up in the brain of living borderline patients with a history of self-injury and in normal controls. They found pretty significant differences within the two groups, suggesting that the patients with borderline personality disorder who self-injure have differences in their opiate systems.
Other studies have shown that people who engage in self-injurious behavior such as cutting have lower levels of endoprhins in the blood at baseline and differences in their endorphin genes compared to non-injurers.
Our endorphins regulate many of our social interactions, and almost anything we do to self-soothe, from childhood on, will activate our endorphin system. A certain subset of people, self-injurers in particular, will have less ability to self-soothe that seems to be genetically mediated, so they may go to more desperate measures (binging, addiction, self-injury) in an attempt to feel better. The same endorphin system deficit can explain some of the social problems that people with borderline personality disorder experience.
There are many levels of speculation to engage in at this point. The deficits run in families, and anyone can see how anxious, addiction-prone families can lead to less than optimal conditions for a growing child trying to find his or her way.
Epigenetics may well play a role. Add chronic stress and inflammation, poor health, and SAD - there's a whole recipe for generation after generation of biologically mediated mental distress. Fortunately, as we develop more understanding of the underpinnings of these conditions, we can start helping people with specific and sensible treatments.
For background information cited by Dr Deans in this topic, please refer to information I provided in 2010 related to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE)/childhood trauma and chronic illness in adulthood (I used a link to a topic about autoimmune disease as an example), as well as her recommended source at
BBC News - Heath : "Childhood stress leads to adult ill health, studies say. Adversity and stress early in life leads to long-term ill health and early death, a group of psychologists warn. www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-10965862
Please look into the history of the DSM in a couple of routes, and I'll give you things I find that I think are worth looking at on various aspects of this.
First, the American Psychiatric Association. To help get you going, I am going to present a couple of avenues. Here is a link to their association's website related to the DSM's history. www.psychiatry.org/practice/dsm/dsm-history-of-the-manual
This is the 'conventional' information which is the 'standard of the industry' which has to do with the allopathic medicine model that came up to be in power in the 1800's and through the 1900s and now is having a bit of a shift with many people looking in OTHER directions now.
I suggest you not just stop there, but look at the other side of the issue, what others are saying about the DSM. Let me set up a suggestion for that as well:
A well known author who was involved with the DSM-IV in the past, who is working to educate people about the concerns he has with the DSM-V (Allen Frances, MD), here's a link at the wonderful Psychology Today:
And as you know, there isn't just the one end and the middle, there is the OTHER end of the spectrum on these issues and I personally found this information beneficial to be aware of. Wellness Resources dot com
The conclusion you will find at the link immediately above:
Americans need to wake up and understand what is going on. Since it is now obvious to the world that our country is broke, it is the perfect time to stop the elite globalist movement from moving forward. We need to move to cut off funding to the international health care movement and the new HHS birth control regulations—we simply cannot afford them. It is time to flood Congress with objections to these eugenics-promoting initiatives and save our country and the rest of the world from the immense pain and harm of this societal experiment.
AFTER you've read what is at the above link, or at least looked it over enough to have been pre-pared, I would suggest people 'keep going' in the learning process. YOU-sers of Lumigrate know that the core concept is that YOU study the various facets of an issue and then decide what is right for YOU (and those you are in a position of being the guardian, parent, authority figure who is in control of decisions and what a person or other being is provided -- or not...). As You-sers here at Lumigrate also know, I work to do the filtering of resources out there and bring you suggestions here. So, without further setup, I'm going to provide this resource. "You don't know what you don't know" is a saying coming off my fingers and tongue increasingly in recent years and days.
Now, I want to impress upon you, YOU reading this, my suggestion to really "assess" how you're spending your time/energy and look at the importance of this information right now in comparison. Are you getting sucked in my 'time vampires' who are perhaps unwittingly and innocently distracting you with their neediness, or are they professionals who are out there en mass as part of the 'plan' to dilute The Real People (YOU-sers) from the work they can achieve if they get out of the time/energy wasting stuff and get into the time spending that is good use of their energies, in terms of becoming educated and more able to be proactive (for yourself and society).
Can you get by with watching one football game a week and transfer the other time to 'studying' about things that directly have been affecting us and we were not made aware? (Or whatever your routine and habits are. Is there a way to use social media more efficiently and then spend more time learning so that YOU have more to tell people on your social media places? Take a personal inventory and realize this isn't dress rehearsal anymore.
Please go to WantToKnow dot info --- Here is their link and in the blockquote, the start of their About page so you'll be further encouraged to GO! Do it! www.wanttoknow.info/aboutus
About WantToKnow.info
WantToKnow.info relies on the great work of an informal network of respected researchers and concerned citizens from around the globe. Some of these people have written key books which are summarized on this website. Others have sent valuable information revealing major cover-ups. All are courageous citizens who venture where many dare not go. We share a deep commitment to inspiring us all to work together to build a brighter future for us all. WantToKnow.info is part of the PEERS network of empowerment websites.
Note: To read about the history and development of WanToKnow.info, click here.
Individuals Who Have Made Key Contributions to WantToKnow.infoKristina Borjesson - Emmy award-winning journalist and media activist
Fred Burks - Presidential interpreter, website manager, cover-up researcher
Norma Carr-Ruffino, PhD - Professor of management, author of nine books
Steven M. Greer, MD - ER physician, author, founder of Disclosure Project
Leonard Horowitz, DMD - Author, speaker, authority in public health education
Michael Levine - 25-year veteran of DEA, award-winning author, radio show host
Peter Lindemann, DSc - Author, researcher, expert in field of new energy
Pamela J. Monday, PhD - Professional counselor, lecturer, researcher
Peter Phillips, PhD - Professor specializing in media, director of Project Censored
Carol Rutz - Author, lecturer, researcher, recovered mind control survivor
Peter Dale Scott, PhD - UC Berkeley professor, author, cover-up researcher
Paul Thompson - Author, researcher, creator and manager of the 9/11 Timeline
Charles S. Viar - Expert in intelligence and counterintelligence, 30 years experience
If you go to their tab about Mind Control (and they have many tabs of a variety of things that would be reflective of the experts they have on the site...), same thing: link and then overview in blockquote below. www.wanttoknow.info/mindcontrol
Mind Control Cover-up
The Secrets of Mind ControlThis mind control summary is based on astonishing excerpts from three landmark books:Bluebird by Colin Ross, MD; Mind Controllers by Armen Victorian; and A Nation Betrayed by Carol Rutz. The authors provide hundreds of footnotes to support their thorough research. Their revealing information is derived largely from 18,000 pages of declassified CIA mind control documents. To order these key documents from the U.S. government, click here. Join in powerfully building a better world for all by spreading the word.
The Secret Agenda of Mind Control
Please note: the letters and numbers after each paragraph denote the book and page number from which the mind control information was taken. BB—Bluebird MC—Mind Controllers NB—A Nation Betrayed.
A declassified CIA document dated 7 Jan 1953 [1] describes the creation of multiple personality in 19-year old girls. "These subjects have clearly demonstrated that they can pass from a fully awake state to a deep H [hypnotic] controlled state ... by telephone, by receiving written matter, or by the use of code, signal, or words and that control of those hypnotized can be passed from one individual to another without great difficulty. It has also been shown by experimentation with these girls that they can act as unwilling couriers for information purposes." BB 32
Under the provisions of the National Security Act of 1947, the CIA was established. One of the main areas investigated by the CIA was mind control. The behavior control program was motivated by Soviet, Chinese, and North Korean use of mind control techniques. The CIA originated its first program in 1950 under the name BLUEBIRD. MKULTRA officially began in 1953. In 1973, tipped off about forthcoming investigations, CIA Director Richard Helms ordered the destruction of any MKULTRA records. [2] MC 3, 10, 17
The Senate Intelligence Committee did find some records during its investigation in 1976. Senator Frank Church, who led the congressional investigations of the CIA's unlawful actions, said that the agency was "a rogue elephant" operating above the law as it plotted assassinations, illegally spied on thousands of Americans, and even drugged citizens in its effort to develop new weapons for its covert arsenal. [3] In 1977, through a Freedom of Information Act request, 16,000 pages of mind control documents were found as part of the Agency's financial history. That is how this information has been pieced together. MC 5, 18, NB xvi, 38
You'll see by clicking on links that they give you some overview at this link:
Mind Control Information and Facts
This page provides links to a variety of sources of reliable, verifiable information and facts dealing with mind control. Our most basic material is listed first, followed by other resources which delve deeper for those interested in more. We recommend reading through this entire page before exploring the links provided. WantToKnow.info presents this mind control information and associated facts as an opportunity for you to educate yourself and others, and to inspire us to work together to strengthen democracy and build a brighter future for us all.
Mind Control Information and Facts Summaries
For the best, most concise introduction to the mind control information, we highly recommend our mind control summaries. These fact-filled summaries provide revealing mind control information from both landmark books and declassified government mind control documents. An abundance of footnotes back up the information presented and provide links direct to government documents and other reliable sources for verification of information presented. The first three listed are general summaries. The following three are 10-page summaries of excellent, well researched books on mind control.
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CLOSING COMMENT FROM ME
I like ALL the resources I set up for you here, but was unbelievably impressed and grateful to find the WantToKnow collaborative website. It's like Lumigrate's format but with this niche about what they're about which is one component of what Lumigrate is about -- we're here to simply bring you the real information about medical, from the way I discovered it as a person with a complex, environmental medical problem AND provider (occupational therapist since 1996) within the allopathic medical/conventional world. I found the pathway to better health while working within the system, and then wanted to step outside of the system -- at least temporarily, and create Lumigrate.com to bring this information to you. Once you're out, can you go back? Hard tellin'... I'd like to if there's a shift going on to be able to educate the masses that will need education and support to shift from allopathy to functional medicine, which is, I believe going to occur. And I'd also like to stay outside the box and work with people ... out here. Lumigrate is created to be 'consumable' to conventionals with open minds looking to learn, as well as the unconventionals/progressives. Consumers and providers alike!
You will see that NeedToKnow is a website that operates on people supporting their work to pay the costs of doing this website and effort for us. When I created this information, above, they were reporting being about $1,700 in the red, so clearly they're not talking about supporting themselves off of this work, just supporting the website business' costs. So remember, even if a business isn't a nonprofit that you get a government-incentivised benefit from on your taxes (remember... follow the money, including where you 'give'/donate), they are an entity out there having to work HARDER to be there and stay there because they cannot get the 'usual system' benefits. As always, be comfortable with how it's done and who it is and the security on it all, and VOTE WITH YOUR MONEY, as well as your TIME, and ENERGY.
Lumigrate and I have been in the situation since our beginning on the Internet of trying to do things ethically and morally and legally, and it basically makes it very difficult for anyone to 'support themselves' off of a website such as these are. Europeans thought I was an 'American capitalist' and refused to help spread the word about Lumigrate. A faction of women or people on Facebook thought I was a plant and creation from BigPharma as nobody would spend money they could spend selfishly creating a website like Lumigrate to get the word out. Well, I did, that is what my heart/spirit told me to do, in addition to getting my personal finances shored up at the time. That was 2007/8 and as we all know the economy all slid around after that and I've had to re-orient myself about ... well, every day it seems sometimes. But I've persevered and Lumigrate is a solid offering to you-sers. (And I am a concierge and educator available for consultations to the public or the providers who might wish to bring me into their circles to educate groups or individuals about any of the topics covered on Lumigrate.)
A year ago we were actually aiming to make something like this model be what was Lumigrate's model, but with products and services that were bundled with the 'gratitude attitude' of funding by YouSers who appreciated our being here, and when Newtown happened .. it was like the spin cycle happened to all the businesses/advisors involved and they literally went off the deep end in a way, and are not operating anymore. I naturally was frustrated by this, but have figured out from the time we were recording seminars to be on Lumigrate for our launch that there is a plan to this (I'm waxing spiritual from my personal side now as I write this, please know) and I am but one of the people who is carrying out the plan. And no, I don't think it's from mind control, but I do think it from my spiritual connection and this is the real deal. But... how DO you know for sure! ? I guess, just check back and see, we can figure this out together..... GRATEfully! MR
You don't know what you don't know. Live and Learn... LEARN and Live Better!~~ Mardy Ross, December 14, 2013
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Live and Learn. Learn and Live Better! is my motto. I'm Mardy Ross, and I founded Lumigrate in 2008 after a career as an occupational therapist with a background in health education and environmental research program administration. Today I function as the desk clerk for short questions people have, as well as 'concierge' services offered for those who want a thorough exploration of their health history and direction to resources likely to progress their health according to their goals. Contact Us comes to me, so please do if you have questions or comments. Lumigrate is "Lighting the Path to Health and Well-Being" for increasing numbers of people. Follow us on social networking sites such as: Twitter: http://twitter.com/lumigrate and Facebook. (There is my personal page and several Lumigrate pages. For those interested in "groovy" local education and networking for those uniquely talented LumiGRATE experts located in my own back yard, "LumiGRATE Groove of the Grand Valley" is a Facebook page to join. (Many who have joined are beyond our area but like to see the Groovy information! We not only have FUN, we are learning about other providers we can be referring patients to and 'wearing a groove' to each other's doors -- or websites/home offices!) By covering some of the things we do, including case examples, it reinforces the concepts at Lumigrate.com as well as making YOU feel that you're part of a community. Which you ARE at Lumigrate!
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