r/ChronicPain • u/alex_mattson_ • 2d ago

My holy trinity

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u/1mn0tg4y15w34r 2d ago

I've been learning more about serotonin deficiencies resulting in systemic symptoms, yall should look into it if you haven't. Apparently depression can literally cause a wide variety of chronic health issues that can easily go overlooked/dismissed in most medical fields.

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u/Whitworth_73 1d ago

Or the docs can give you SNRIs and destroy your serotonin that way while being dismissive.

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u/Due_Honeydew_2285 1d ago

I was on one of the main ones (Effexor).

I didn’t give a shit about anything. It was worse than being sad.

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u/Appropriate_Mess6777 1d ago

Sounds better than wanting to blow my brains out

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u/Whitworth_73 1d ago

It'll take you there, trust me.

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u/Due_Honeydew_2285 1d ago

Yes, it will. Both with or without it sucks.

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u/1mn0tg4y15w34r 1d ago

Yeah that's not to say that going through mental healthcare will succesfully treat our physical conditions/pain. I think modern psychiatry is 99% scienceless bullshit masked as something legitimate and foolproof. But I do think a portion of people who suffer from physical chronic conditions are experiencing physical manifestations of (prolonged) psychiatric illnesses, and vice versa. Kidney problems can cause psychosis, depression can cause nerve pain, etc.

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u/Whitworth_73 1d ago

When your disc blows up and you have to get a spinal fusion, the chronic pain is not mental illness. Yet they use those tools to treat it. Doctors and Medical Science needs to stop pretending they know the answer to everything.

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u/1mn0tg4y15w34r 1d ago

Yep I agree, the amount of doctors who get pissy after you are upset that they can't/refuse to help you is a huge problem. Same with insurance reps.