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Living Well With LD Online Workshop

https://www.eomega.org/online-workshops/living-well-with-lyme-disease

Online Workshop

Living Well With Lyme Disease

Get the Information & Support You Need

On Demand Until: Jun 30 2018 Online

Get the Information & Support You Need

When it comes to Lyme disease, where do you turn? Many people go from doctor to doctor looking for answers about their aches and pains, sleep and mood disorders, and memory or concentration problems. Unfortunately, Lyme disease and associated tick-borne coinfections are often overlooked because Lyme disease mimics many other common diseases and can be difficult to diagnose.

Whether you are a patient, a family member, a doctor, or a concerned citizen, how do you get the information and support you need?

This empowering program is for those afflicted with Lyme disease, health-care providers who want to improve their diagnostic and treatment skills, and anyone else who wants the most up-to-date information on Lyme disease. Guided by a medical doctor, a naturopath, and an expert in natural care, you gain the knowledge and practical tools you need to demystify Lyme disease and navigate this perplexing illness.

Through nine modules (detailed below under Schedule), you learn to:

  • Determine the signs and symptoms of Lyme disease and associated coinfections
  • Create a personalized treatment regimen to address chronic or resistant symptoms
  • Explore the mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of healing
  • Practice stress reduction techniques to support the mind and body through chronic illness
  • Transform fear and the feeling of being overwhelmed into feeling inspired and empowered
  • Effectively integrate conventional medical treatments with complementary naturopathic therapies

You gain leading-edge information to help you heal your body, mind, and spirit.

Meet the Teachers

  • Richard Horowitz
    Richard Horowitz, MD, is medical director of the Hudson Valley Healing Arts Center, where he h …
  • Tom Francescott
    Tom Francescott, ND, has dedicated his life to helping people awaken t …
  • Katina I. Makris
    Katina I. Makris, CCH, CIH, has worked in natural health care for 33 years. …

Schedule

Module 1:

Introduction & Overview with Dr. Richard Horowitz

In this opening module, we learn through lecture and slides, what the Lyme disease is, what the most common tick-borne coinfections are that can make us sick, how tick-borne infections are transmitted and how to reduce our risk, how to determine if you have Lyme disease, the reliability of blood tests, and why one doesn’t get better after treatments.

Module 2:

A 7-Point Action Plan for LYME-MSIDS & Inflammation with Dr. Richard Horowitz

Part 1

Dr. Horowitz offers medical and technical details and an action plan for dealing with Lyme disease. He provides 7 rules within an action plan for all those afflicted by Lyme disease: 1. Symptoms drive diagnosis and treatment. 2. Lower inflammation. 3. Detoxify. 4. Repair the damage. 5. Provide internal balance of hormones, microbiome, and cytokines. 6. Master the “Big Three”—sleep, food, and exercise. And, 7. Heal your emotional wounds.

Module 3:

A 7-Point Action Plan for LYME-MSIDS & Inflammation with Dr. Richard Horowitz

Part 2

(A continuation of Module 2)

Module 4:

Energetic Healing Exercise with Katina I. Makris

In this intimate breakout session, you experience how to heal yourself through “inner journaling,” an ancient energetic healing method of accessing information within you, using exercises, and then processing your discovery.

Module 5

Healing Patients With Lyme Disease & Chronic Infections with Dr. Tom Francescott

Part 1

Through lecture and slides, you learn how homeopathic remedies, diet, and detoxifying will help you heal your body and reduce the symptoms of Lyme disease. Dr. Tom takes a holistic approach in his work, describing the importance of breathwork and meditation, and he talks about how maintaining balance in healing supports good health, internally and emotionally.

Module 6

Healing Patients With Lyme Disease & Chronic Infections with Dr. Tom Francescott

Part 2

(A continuation of Module 5)

Module 7:

Understanding Self-Help Homeopathic Remedies with Katina I. Makris

In this module, you learn about the history of homeopathic medicine, how it works, and how it can help heal your Lyme disease. Discover self-help remedies for various symptoms of Lyme disease.

Module 8:

Three Case Studies with Dr. Richard Horowitz

Dr. Horowitz describes the detailed case studies of three patients suffering with extreme symptoms of Lyme disease, how their symptoms presented, and how his diagnosis and treatment helped heal them.

Module 9:

Closing Statements with Richard Horowitz, MD, Tom Francescott, ND, and Katina I. Makris, CCH, CIH

The three presenters offer an overview of their teaching, while providing positive affirmations and support.

Tuition $49

Register:  https://www.eomega.org/online-workshops/living-well-with-lyme-disease

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Category:

Activism, Lyme, Psychological Aspects, Treatment

Dr. Frid: Children & Lyme

 Approx. 40 Min

Dr. Elena Frid:  Children & Lyme

Published on Mar 9, 2018

Dr. Elena Frid, a Board Certified New York City Neurologist, with clinical interest in Autoimmune and Neuro-Lyme discusses Children who have been effected by Lyme disease at an annual Tick Talk in Pennsylvania.
She goes into depth about Autoimmune Encephalitis (AE), Neuro-developmental issues with Lyme and co-infections, PANS/PANDAS, illustrates case studies, discusses blood work protocols, and protective methods all must follow in order to prevent and protect themselves against Lyme disease.

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For More:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/10/08/misdiagnosed-how-children-with-treatable-medical-issues-are-mistakenly-labeled-as-mentally-ill/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/06/30/child-with-lymemsidspans-told-by-doctors-she-made-it-all-up/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/04/11/hidden-invaders-infections-can-trigger-immune-attacks-on-kids-brains-provoking-devastating-psychiatric-disorders/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/10/01/panspandas-steroids-autoimmune-disease-lymemsids-the-need-for-medical-collaboration/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/01/31/finding-the-right-psychotherapist-for-your-child-with-lyme-disease/

Category:

Activism, Autism, Lyme, Psychological Aspects

Aggressiveness, violence, homicidality, homicide, & Lyme Disease

Published on Mar 8, 2018

Video abstract of original research paper “Aggressiveness, violence, homicidality, homicide, and Lyme disease” published in the open access Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment journal by Robert C Bransfield. Background: No study has previously analyzed aggressiveness, homicide, and Lyme disease (LD).
Materials and methods: Retrospective LD chart reviews analyzed aggressiveness, compared 50 homicidal with 50 non-homicidal patients, and analyzed homicides.
Results: Most aggression with LD was impulsive, sometimes provoked by intrusive symptoms, sensory stimulation or frustration and was invariably bizarre and senseless. About 9.6% of LD patients were homicidal with the average diagnosis delay of 9 years. Postinfection findings associated with homicidality that separated from the non-homicidal group within the 95% confidence interval included suicidality, sudden abrupt mood swings, explosive anger, paranoia, anhedonia, hypervigilance, exaggerated startle, disinhibition, nightmares, depersonalization, intrusive aggressive images, dissociative episodes, derealization, intrusive sexual images, marital/family problems, legal problems, substance abuse, depression, panic disorder, memory impairments, neuropathy, cranial nerve symptoms, and decreased libido. Seven LD homicides included predatory aggression, poor impulse control, and psychosis. Some patients have selective hyperacusis to mouth sounds, which I propose may be the result of brain dysfunction causing a disinhibition of a primitive fear of oral predation.
Conclusion: LD and the immune, biochemical, neurotransmitter, and the neural circuit reactions to it can cause impairments associated with violence. Many LD patients have no aggressiveness tendencies or only mild degrees of low frustration tolerance and irritability and pose no danger; however, a lesser number experience explosive anger, a lesser number experience homicidal thoughts and impulses, and much lesser number commit homicides. Since such large numbers are affected by LD, this small percent can be highly significant. Much of the violence associated with LD can be avoided with better prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of LD. Read the original research paper here

https://www.dovepress.com/aggressiveness-violence-homicidality-homicide-and-lyme-disease-peer-reviewed-article-NDT

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**Comment**

Imagine the additive effects of coinfections to this picture…..

I also wonder about these incidents:  https://www.twincities.com/2015/03/21/tree-stand-murders-recounts-st-paul-mans-wisconsin-deer-hunter-killings/.  Seems like we hear of these types of killings every now and again.  Could this be due to an undiagnosed tick borne infection(s)?  Very well could be.

For More:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2015/10/18/psychiatric-lymemsids/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/03/07/obsessive-compulsive-symptoms-in-adults-with-ld/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/08/07/understanding-and-treating-depersonalization-and-derealization/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/01/18/depression-not-caused-by-chemical-imbalance/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/11/01/lyme-mental-illness-dr-jane-marke/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/10/03/treat-the-infection-psychiatric-symptoms-get-better/

 

Category:

Lyme, Psychological Aspects, research

Obsessive-compulsive Symptoms in Adults with LD

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0163834317304280?via%3Dihub

Obsessive-compulsive symptoms in adults with Lyme disease

Objective

This study examined the phenomenology and clinical characteristics of obsessive compulsive symptoms (OCS) in adults diagnosed with Lyme disease.

Method

Participants were 147 adults aged 18–82 years (M = 43.81, SD = 12.98) who reported having been diagnosed with Lyme disease. Participants were recruited from online support groups for individuals with Lyme disease, and completed an online questionnaire about their experience of OCS, Lyme disease characteristics, and the temporal relationship between these symptoms.

Results

OCS were common, with 84% endorsing clinically significant symptoms, 26% of which endorsed symptoms onset during the six months following their Lyme disease diagnosis and another 51% believed their symptoms were temporally related. Despite the common occurrence of OCS, only 44% of these participants self-identified these symptoms as problematic. Greater frequency of Lyme disease symptoms and disease-related impairment was related to greater OCS. In the majority of cases, symptom onset was gradual, and responded well to psychological and pharmacological treatment. Around half of participants (51%) reported at least some improvement in OCS following antibiotic treatment.

Conclusions

This study highlights the common co-occurrence of OCS in patients with Lyme disease. It is unclear whether OCS are due to the direct physiological effects of Lyme disease or associated immunologic response, a psychological response to illness, a functional somatic syndrome, or some combination of these.

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**Comment**

OCS with Lyme/MSIDS is maddening.  I remember it well.  The good news is it, along with a plethora of other maddening symptoms decline or abate altogether with proper treatment.

At least now you know those OCS symptoms are due to being infected!

 

For more psychiatric symptoms with Lyme/MSIDS:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2015/10/18/psychiatric-lymemsids/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/09/11/lyme-psychological-issues-dr-anna-satalino/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/11/01/lyme-mental-illness-dr-jane-marke/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/06/10/the-coming-pandemic-of-lyme-dementia/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/01/17/lymemsids-and-psychiatric-illness/

Category:

Lyme, Psychological Aspects, research

‘Expert’ on TBI Working Group States Lyme Patients Simply Choose to Get Better

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/expert-tick-borne-disease-working-group-states-lyme-get-luche-thayer/?trackingId=%2B81bb8wu8yzFjKujau6Y3A%3D%3D

‘Expert’ on Tick Borne Disease Working Group States Lyme Patients Simply Choose To Get Better

Published on February 23, 2018
Jenna Luche-Thayer

Friends,

The Tick Borne Disease Working Group’s Subcommittee on Access to Care Services and Support to Patients has a person with ‘unique expertise’.

This person, Anna Frost, is considered qualified for the important work of informing and developing recommendations to Congress regarding access to patient care.

On her website, she introduces herself as “a thought leader” and “social influencer.”

Her qualifying experience in this subject is based upon “studying five Lyme disease sufferers in the Pacific Northwest for six months in 2015.”

Anna Frost received a PhD for making this study.

According to Frost,

“The participants in my study who are on their way to optimal health are the ones who choose happiness at least 80% of the time.” [1]

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, happiness is a “a state of well-being and contentment” or “a pleasurable or satisfying experience”.

Myself, I don’t know any Lyme patients whose health improved simply because they ‘chose happiness’ –whether it was 80%, 82%, 87% or 93% of the time … and I personally know many hundreds of patients. I do know many of these patients, over time and with access to treatment options that have met internationally accepted standards, improved their health and well-being.

The CDC’s Lyme policy discriminates against Lyme patients with persistent and complicated cases. There are many patients whose access to these treatment options is obstructed by this policy –they cannot afford to pay out of pocket for necessary medical care– and many of these patients struggle and fight for every bit of their life. This discrimination is a human rights abuse as well as a violation of federal laws.

They fight to stay employable, when they lose their jobs due to their untreated and/or under-treated illness, they fight to get disability benefits. They fight to keep their homes and they fight to keep their family together. They apologize to their spouses and children for their lack of strength and energy, for their inability to be there when needed.

These persons are ‘happy’ when they have some hours or a day with manageable pain, they are ‘happy’ when they have the energy to show up to social commitments, they are ‘happy’ to still have some friends and family who love them and give encouragement. They are ‘happy’ for these gifts … but they are still sick because they are denied medical care.

In closing, I have two questions:

(1) Do you know any Lyme patients, with persistent complicated cases, who became well because they could ‘think happy 80%’ of the time?

(2) Can you recommend persons who have more useful ideas than ‘happiness cures’ for the TBDWG Subcommittee on Access to Care Services and Support to Patients?

Faithfully,

Jenna Luché-Thayer. 33 years working globally on the rights of the marginalized. Former Senior Advisor to US government and UN. Director, Ad Hoc Committee for Health Equity in ICD11 Borreliosis Codes. Founder, Global Network on Institutional Discrimination™ – Holding institutions accountable for political and scientific solutions

jennaluche@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

Category:

Activism, Lyme, Psychological Aspects