Expert: Jurriaan Plesman, Nutritional Psychotherapist - 1/11/2011

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QUESTION: Hi Dr Plesman
Thanks again for the information, I am sitting up late to go through the website and get a better understanding because there's a lot on the website.
I wanted to add when I was doing training with Dept Health, Drug and Alcohol Section and also Drug Arm, neither brought diet into it.  Dept Health actually promoted controlled drinking, not abstinence.  I asked them why they didn't include suggestions concerning diet, and they said it wasn't any of their business to tell people what to eat.  
In one of the courses I met a guy working at a rehab on the Gold Coast and a recovering alcoholic who had been treated by Dr Samra.
Thats all, I'll go to the discussion forum in future.
Thank you, I am really grateful.  
I feel more confident now I am on the right track.
Because its always hard going to the doctor and them treating me like a schizophrenic, and recommending I go back on anti psychotics and getting reassessed, only because of the label, but not taking into consideration of my present mental health condition.
I have changed doctors a number of times because of this and finally found one that agrees I am stable.
Sandy

ANSWER: Hi Sandy,

I am afraid you have to get used to the idea that conventional psychologists and psychiatrists have no clue as to the causes of addiction. They probably know, but are not motivated to help people. There is more money to be made out of sick people. Where do you think they get their information from? There are no official educational  institutions that teach nutritional biochemistry, or nutritional aspects of psychology (human behaviour). There are no Departments of Psychology in Australian Universities or, for that matter, around the world, that teach nutritional biochemistry.
I was in the same boat as you, working in government departments that are not really interested in helping people with mood disorders. They simply want to promote the jobs of ignorant psychologists and psychiatrists and the medico-pharmaceutical industrial complex.

Just read the report and book by Dr Jay Harley, where she devoted one chapter to my attempts to introduce Nutritional Therapy in the NSW Probation and Parole Service at:
http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au/i-plesman_segment.html

I also advise you to read:

Pam Killeen, (2010) ADDICTION: THE HIDDEN EPIDEMIC at;
http://www.addictionthehiddenepidemic.net/

Anybody who pretends to be interested in the treatment of addiction MUST read that book.

_______________________________________________
Jurriaan Plesman, Nutritional Psychotherapist.
Hon. Editor of
The Hypoglycemic Health Association of Australia.
www.hypoglycemia.asn.au
Author of "Getting off the Hook"
Freely available at Google Book Search
Skype: jurplesman

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QUESTION: Dear Dr Plesman

I have downloaded the recommended sites.
I am reading the hypoglycemia website and a paper on the Effectiveness of the Twelve Step Program http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-effectiveness.html
I am in shock the claims the author is making against Bill W. and the Big Book.
I went for years to AA and other 12 step programs and we would put AA speakers from the USA on pedistals e.g. 'Bill and Charlie' tapes, John Bradshaw http://www.johnbradshaw.com, Pia Melody http://www.themeadows.org/

I met a young man who came into AA, and he told me about a book he found and was following the program in it by Dr Joan Matthews Larsen PhD's book "Seven Weeks To Sobriety" [orthomolecular treatment].  He went into AA and told them about it, and they shouldn't be drinking coffee or eating biscuits in meetings, but they didn't take any notice of him.  I followed up the read her "Seven Weeks to Emotional Healing".  

This is a whole new way of looking at AA.
Sandy

Answer
Thanks for letting me know.

_______________________________________________
Jurriaan Plesman, Nutritional Psychotherapist.
Hon. Editor of
The Hypoglycemic Health Association of Australia.
www.hypoglycemia.asn.au
Author of "Getting off the Hook"
Freely available at Google Book Search
Skype: jurplesman