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From: Chris.Brown@f223.n163.z1.fidonet.org (Chris Brown)
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Subject: LUPUS/DEPRESSION
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Date: 18 Oct 90 03:44:14 GMT
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I'm not suggesting that there is ONE cause for lupus, and that we
should debate which cause is THE cause.  As you probably know or
suspect, lupus can result from various causes...

The issue I was raising is that central nervous system dysfunction
can be caused by sensitivities, whether immune mediated like
allergy, or not.

Doctors recently came to understand that a lot of diabetes is
auto-immune caused...and can be stopped from progressing by
immunosuppresive medication.  There is compelling evidence that
some per centage of psychiatric illness is caused, or significantly
exacerbated, by immune and non-immune mediated sensitivities.
Several of us are working to rescue those psych patients whose
problems result from UNDIAGNOSED sensitivities.  people working on
the problem include government, medical, and non-government
officials, care-givers, and consumers.  There are, as you say, many
competent and dedicated doctors.  But doctors, like other humans,
tend to respond to authority more than reason.  You may have read
Erich Fromm's book "Fear of Freedom"?  It outlines how people tend
to try to give up their decision making ability and hand it over to
others who seem to have strong views, or more power.  It's a good
book fro modern day North America.

The remafk I made about physically disabled attitudes towards the
invisibly disabled was influenced by comments in this echo about
someone named "Greg".  One imbecile suggested it was possible and
appropriate to separate Greg's "real personality" from behaviour
resulting from brain damage.  The general tone of other people's
remarks, with some exceptions that made me proud, was to dismiss
the person because he was feeling hostile.  The people who took
this position were very embarrassing, and surprisingly
uncharacteristic of comments on this echo in general.

I guess it's okay to fall down in one direction, but not in another.  

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