After suffering with undiagnosed and untreated mood disorder symptoms for 25 years(boy did I feel stupid when I finally got a diagnosis of depression) I had the worst year of my life taking synthetic antidepressants which MADE ME WORSE due to multiple adverse effects (so I felt even more stupid) because the doctor said these pills would help me! They were numb-stim-energizers which produced a brain fog and did other things which did not help me.
Nearing the end of the line and craving help, I began to read book after book about psychiatry etc. - stumbled across the little-known field of orthomolecular medicine and having never heard about this, doubted that it would work for me when the usual pills were not helping! (wrong again - it did help!) I learned that orthomolecular doctors know how to do root-cause biological and medical tests and help mental patients to restore normal brain function without (many) adverse effects by using non-toxic supplements. This saved my life!
To help other people avoid my problems coping with depression and its fun companions anxiety and even high energy states called hypomania, I wrote a Depression Survivor's Kit and layman's guides to orthomolecular medicine and mental healthcare references.
If people are interested, they can visit my web site at
www.rose.com/~searpubl