At 09:55 AM 05/18/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>So I'm working in a new building and who do I bump into but the first doctor
>to write me a prescription for happy pills, aka anti-depressants. (While a
>fine person, I felt more comfortable with a woman and switched to a female
>doctor after only 2 visits.)
>
>At any rate, we spoke briefly this morning and I asked him if he was
>familiar with Paleolithic nutrition.  Of course, he wasn't...

        MD's are trained to treat symptoms and disease with drugs and surgery.
Very few have any interest in counseling patients on diet as it relates to
health and reaching your optimal potential. When you're a hammer everything
looks like a nail.

>Dori Zook
>Denver, CO
>
>P.S.  By the way, between two periods I'd guesstimate my total time on
>anti-depressants to be 8-12 months.  I've long since been off medication and
>feel just fine.  Contributing factors?  Having to a) get up at 4 am and b)
>endure incredible stress in the workplace immediately after c) enduring the
>stress of brain surgery and taking d) an anti-seizure med (Tegretol) which
>is also an anti-depressant, something I didn't learn until after e) going
>off the drug cold-turkey during recovery, a big mistake no one bothered to
>warn me about.

        Need I say more?

>I'm shocked and offended at the number of people who, after learning I once
>took anti-depressants, think I'll need to take them for the rest of my life
>and since I'm not taking them now I may just blow up at any moment.  What
>the hell do they know?

        I've never taken them but I could blow up at any moment. I'll just have to
start eating ice cream for the calcium I guess?


Dave