Excessive Binge Personalities, extreme diet restriction and healing: Finding balance!!
Why excessive dietary regimes, chronic changing of lifestyle and binge-y living is harmful for healing. I share my story as an extreme person and my battle with ...
I absolutely love your videos! The past two years has been all about diet
change and being as clean as possible but the past couple days I totally
threw that out and binged and believe me now I am paying the price. It is
also so hard for me because I also have that all or nothing personality and
when I am not perfect I will find myself punishing me. it is so crazy but
am glad I found you because there really are others out there like me and I
don't feel alone:-)
Get regular acupuncture sessions. After a few years, Balance will be your
motto,and it'll come naturally, I assure you... Nice...uhuhu...looks in
this video.
Lived in Mtl for 16 years, went to school in Westmount..
+Wonderwall36 I love acupuncture and have tried it though never regularly, great suggestion. I live in NDG just across from Girouard Park right near Westmount- great area!
I really can't tell you how much I needed to hear this tonight! I'm going
to favorite this video. I am struggling with hypothyroidism and it's
apparently the autoimmune variety (hashimotos). I've been trying so hard to
go gluten free and grain free because of this, and it's been a struggle. I
usually manage to go about 10 days gluten free before I cave and have some
pizza (my one true weakness) or some other gluten laden food. I've been
adding tons more fruits and veggies to my diet but when I slip and have
something "bad", I tend to dwell on it for days. Thank you for reminding us
that it's normal to not be perfect. I'm going to make a conscious effort to
find better balance and let the negativity go.
+Jayne Karinova Thanks for your comment, I am so happy you enjoyed the video! You should try having a huge green smoothie every morning for breakfast-each day I do this my cravings are gonzo for the rest of the day..I want to make a video on it with my fav recipes but for now try this one: 4 bananas, 2 cups of grapes OR 2 apples, 3 kiwis, water or coconut water (1 cup to 16oz) 2 handfuls kale, 2 handfuls spinach, a handful parsley and blend. I blend the greens and water first until pulverized to keep from having green chunks then add the fruit to make it creamy! I drink all of it (2 Liters!) over the course of an hour and feel full for hours afterwards and all my sugar, wheat cravings disappear. This is also a great way to meet your daily nutritional needs!
Yup. I've been struggling with my all or nothing personality for years.
Punishing myself for inconsistencies. I managed to live what I feel was
close to perfection almost 5 years ago when I found my life free of stress
for once. I've been struggling to get back to that since- green juice,
coconut water, fruit and giant salads, homemade soup, rebounding, going to
the gym, salt water flushes etc. I know I've never felt better than when I
lived like that. But I can't get back to it. Now I'm trying to find a
balance between what I know is healthy & the situation I'm in at the
moment: divorce, moving countries, living with a family that always has
junk food in the cupboard, craving peppermint patties! xD
+TheAmethystSkies I hear you! You seem to be on the right path though so just be kind with yourself...try this smoothie next time you are craving peppermint patties or sweets: 4-6 ripe banana, the more speckled the better, 1 cup of coconut water, a pinch of vanilla, a pinch of cinnamon and add some carob or cocoa powder (even natural peppermint drops) if you want chocolate mint flavored. Blend this until creamy, with the vanilla it seriously tastes like a milkshake and it is so healthy you can have it every day for breakfast!
I seriously can relate!
I recently went on a 17 day vegetable juice fast n still got some bloating
n asthma...ginger shots helped a lil....but near end of the fast I started
drunk some sugar overloaded smoothies from those fruit smoothie bars in
the mall and...the sugar cravings got real...I was planing to break my fast
on a watermelon and maybe some dates like some muslims do after their
Ramadan...but nooooope I ended up breaking my veganism and ate pastries
like pumpkin bread, pie, w/e else that contained wheat, dairy, and eggs for
like 3 days...got even moreeeee bloated n a headache. Then I just couldnt
finish the junk food n threw it out then made my way back into plant
carbohydrates.
O ya and I made the mistake of taking a strong alcoholic shot at a club wit
friends during my juice cleanse and got a swollen face for the day after.
Welllllll lol i guess my first juice cleanse went better than expected
eheheh.
I basically just laughed it off; Im not gonna beat myself up for this. I
dont want anyone else 2 stress over being perfect on their diet
+Vegan Vampire hahah, we are all human! I find green smoothie cleanses easier to sustain than juices with much less tendency to binge afterwards...it feels abundant in volume rather than restrictive the way juice fasting feels-though both are awesome for healing! Congrats on getting to 17 days. The longest one I succeeded in doing was 17 days juicing followed by 1 day water fasting before I broke it!
+Darlene S. Thank you, you are so sweet for telling me that! xo
48hr Rapid Detox diet day 1 my first detox + lupus bipolar abilify medication and weight update
dont get me wrong, abilify has done wonders in helping me be "normal"... but its dangerous to my kidneys and risk of obesity. talking in order: 1. talks about ...
Small Pills (a poem)
I posted this earlier as part of my Honesty and Psychiatry post, but I had a suggestion to post this by itself, so "you wouldn't have to get to the end of that other ...
hi, hi oz. max respect and regard for your honesty, yes it is healing on
many levels-my gratitude, too, for the goodness of you that shines
through... it looks from here like you're doing way better than ok, so i
trust the choices you've made for yourself. choices never present
themselves without attendant risks and burdens of uncertainty. it is scary!
we hope and trust gut feelings re the information available to us. i think
hoping very much for healing has a lot to do with healing kicking in
i was also told that my enjoyment of marijuana was a form of addiction and
that i must quit & join a program for addicts in order to continue to
receive counseling. i stopped medicating anyway. i forfeited my weekly rap
sessions and bought a video camera. i'm happy to report that i'm not dead
yet, and that while i'm still very sad and anxious about the state of the
world, my own little corner of it is very peaceful and i am often happy. my
unmedicated and unexamined life is still worth living.
i agree! my own journey has taken me to the depths of depression, where i
panicked and sought help and was given serzone, antidepressant, which
seemed merciful at first, and also seemed to bear out a very simple
theory-- that deep, relentless unhappiness reflects a biochemistry of the
brain which can be altered, corrected, if you will, to produce a more
balanced psychosomatic state. and yes, i was promised, a safe, nontoxic,
easy to metabolize product- which in time proved quite toxic indeed!
That is true, they are helpful to many. I am around a lot with
schizophrenia, PTSD, etc, and I really understand. It is hard and I
understand what you mean about the medical analogy, although the analogy is
not direct. I am only speaking of my own experience and hopes that the
mental health industry offer more choices in the realm of healing, because
I think there are other ways. I made a video this is in reply to, it might
help to clarify things. Or maybe not, I tend to be a bit incoherent.
have you googled 'ssri stories'? i have seen first hand that these drugs do
destroy people's lives. apparently this is okay since they 'helped' you.
the very fact that you don't care about this issue demonstrates that the
drugs blunt your emotions how to 'treat' depression? how about eliminate
it? human beings were not meant to live in civilization, surrounded by
strangers, expected to sacrifice body & soul to the machine, told they'll
be better if they just buy more stuff & take more pills
The poetry that comes through you is very clear, and I'm glad you shared. A
long time ago I took risperidone and paxil...that was before I realized
that sadness and despair were perfectly appropriate reactions to the
society we call home, and that I could use them to propel me toward Love,
which is the great unifying and healing force. That doesn't mean society
will feel healthier, but that your loving stillness will be a healing force
within it, which feels safe, and really quite amazing.
again, maiyanna, i appreciate that you think you're stating your own ideas,
but you're really just parroting the standard propaganda about these drugs
it is not accurate that 'people just suffered' before the advent of these
drugs people suffer *now* under these drugs; they suffer terribly there are
societies where depression and suicide are virtually unknown--it is only in
industrial civilization that we see these problems (there's your 'cause')
did you google 'ssri stories'?
the 'if you were diabetic, would you not take insulin' line is standard
propaganda trotted out by doctors across the world at the first sign of
resistance it's a fallacy depressed people are not 'missing' something like
insulin in their bodies, and the medications do not restore anything that
is missing they don't know how they work and they make people kill each
other and themselves no one who has been on them long term would dare call
them a 'blessing' google ssri stories
i don't understand how people would know if the drugs 'helped' or not. they
cause emotional blunting--is that helpful? the people i know who are on
them aren't 'helped.' they are altered. suicide and depression are
virtually unknown in indigenous societies. see marshall sahlins' 'the
original affluent society' ancient times were civilized times--same factors
at work. did you google 'ssri stories'? is the help you think you got worth
the thousands of murders and suicides?
wow! brilliant, oz... yep, not to disparage the many who feel significantly
relieved from their suffering by taking medications for the various stages
of depression, anxiety, insomnia, ennui, quiet desperation,repetitive
thinking, hallucinations, fugue states, rage and soforth== i can also
relate to the brave souls who deal with their more difficult emotions
through other approaches... music is very good medicine, laughter
legendarily the best. your poem made me laugh!
any doctor worth his salt will tell you they don't know what causes
depression--it is all *hypothesis* even if it is a chemical imbalance, what
causes the chemical imbalance in the first place? wouldn't it be better to
treat that? and if these drugs work so well, why is everyone so miserable?
where are you getting your information from? the medical establishment?
it's very easy to parrot the lies of the culture and think they are truth
did you google 'ssri stories'?
a dry mouth is a side effect murder and suicide are not 'side effects' have
you googled 'ssri stories'? or do you just 'know' like you 'know'
everything else you've said that sounds just like a pharmaceutical
advertisement? (maybe they should hire you) :P just because some people
seem to get some 'help' from these drugs, should we ignore the fact that
over 200,000 people a year are hospitalized because of them? should we
ignore the deaths?
part of my hepatic system was destroyed. talk about depressing! after i
began to question the physical risks vs the psychological benefits of
continuing to take serzone or any equivalent med long term i was told that
without the meds my depression could become life threatening and that my
therapeutic team (MD shrink and a social worker i talked to weekly) could
not take responsibility for my fate if i chose an unmedicated life.
Hi Maryann, thank you so much for commenting, I know you could have avoided
this one. I am not so much "against" medication as I am "for" choices in
treatment and honesty in advertising. I know many who swear by the meds,
but many like me who do not find the consequences and risks of them worth
it. I think for them to be effective, they have to be more of part of a
plan than a means and end. Again, thank you.
Hello, dear. Thank you for sharing your life with me. I find that in being
honest, hoping to connect, that this is healing, both for myself, and for
others. My only fear, especially with pieces like this, is in being
misunderstood. I can add that my own constant testing, needed for Lithium
and Zyprexa were pretty scary. It is good to hear you are doing ok. Take
care.
I will never take those drugs ever again, I don't agree with your point of
view Maiyanna, It's like you have a problem with a child, you can fix this
problem by listening to him and by teaching him, or by beating him, Those
medications are equal - Beating. I wouldn't chose them, I know other much
better ways to help myself and also others.
The main point Maiyanna is is that people are being lied to. They are being
told by a very big monolithic consortium--namely the pharma industry and
those they patronize, the shrinks, that they have a 'mental illness' that
is biological and needs 'treatment'. There exists no medical tests for
their 'diagnoses'!
Thnx, Adam, I have been writing poems for my book and other stories, I am
learning as I go, seeing which ones resonate and which ones do not. I am
trying to approach different topics, which is fun as well.
continued--checkout Mindfreedom. A resource run by psychiatric survivors.
They do not deny peoples CHOICE to take medication IF they choose, but also
to know what the shrinks and ads DON'T tell them.
thanks for doing this oz it can't be said often enough the bottom line on
those poisons is that they don't know how they work, and they fuck with
brain chemistry, which they don't understand
it's complicated. The suffering is real and painful and the pills do offer
relief, but I feel like we are lied to about them as well, their dangers,
side effects, etc, which makes me angry.
Look up the harm reduction guide to coming off of medication. I was never
on zyprexa long enough but hear they can be a bitch, coming off of Effexor
and Lamictal were a bit scary.
This is great Oz...thanks for posting as a response. I'd like to prescribe
this poem to everyone...this is some powerful mind altering medication
right here. Respect!
and yes, we should all stop driving for very obvious reasons the automobile
is the worst thing that has ever happened to this planet
ADsON - Heart Palpitations
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