My therapist and psychiatrist both complimented me on my self-advocacy. Neither of them brought medical keto to my attention. It was something I brought to their attention with your channel’s help. I was glad they were open minded and supportive enough to see me through the transition. I met a neighbor about 2 weeks ago. I live in a 55 and older community with my parents. I told her why I live with them and she revealed that she cared for her now deceased brother for years because he had schizophrenia. I told her about medical keto, and how my symptoms were in remission with zero medication. She held my hand and was on the verge of tears when I walked away because she was so happy with the news of improvement. Good video. Good advice.
@@benjones1452the word compliment/complement is a homophone, a word that sounds the same but mean different things. I’m not sure if u knew that or if u meant one or the other, but u can google them to use at ur discretion lol
A word of caution for those who are in the early stages of a psychiatric illness: you only become an expert of your condition with time. More often than not you may have a very delusional view of taking care of things yourself and therefore rejecting medication, for example. So, take your time and learn to collaborate.
It's been hard to find support like I had when my husband was alive. Doing things on my own is more taxing than when I had help in that way. Glad that you have Rob as such a great support. I'm hoping to remarry some day to a supportive man like that.
Thank you to those brave souls who are going into this so carefully and methodically and giving us all this advice, putting themselves on the line. I remember when a nurse told me that this would be with me my whole life, I was nineteen, and it was the most devastating day of my life (for some reason her voice rather than all the doctors is the voice that stays with me.) I know that we all have moments like this, painful realisations that somehow or for some reason we are told that we are to suffer this for the rest of our lives. Furthermore, I respect caution, and acceptance is important, and I feel that being stoic is valuable, but for me this therapy has been transformative, thank you.
As a counselor, my goal is to have my clients thrive, not symptom management, but it does take time. It's not something that happens overnight, especially with trauma or severe mental health conditions. I will never give up hope on my clients. I always tell my clients to write down questions in between sessions.
Do you feel your role extends to advocacy between the professionals on a client's team, that is the kind of joined up support that I feel is often missing?
My mental illness started out as schizophrenia then bipolar and that idea of hope lasted for 30 years. I finally got connected with a good psychiatrist. He prescribed Invega (Paliperidone) which for me is awesome. No side effects except weird dreams at night. The med is awesome and it works .
I have the same experience. But bassicly there is side effects but not big enough in my life to be a game changer. I do voluntary work 3 times a week, and I run 4 days a week, one some days I do more. I have discipline and all that.
Thank you for this. I add that everything you’ve said here applies to all forms of medical care. When I was a kid, I remember being treated as a broken object rather than a person by many doctors. Many of them would talk to my parents but never to me. Now I view doctors appointments much like job interviews. They work for me, not the other way around.
Agreed. this approach is important in all aspects of medicine. This became very obvious in the world of Type 2 diabetes over the last couple of decades. If anyone with type 2 followed the advice given by the Diabetes Societies around the world, and by extension their doctors, the best they could hope for was managing their symptoms and slowing the progression. It wasn't until people started to go outside their doctors' advice, doing almost the opposite as their doctors suggested as far as diet is concerned and reversing their disease, that finally the Diabetes Associations admitted, although with very little fanfare, that it might actually be possible to reverse the disease. I hope that mental illness will also have similar results, but if its even possible, it will take decades for this to take hold.
Your excellence is pure and most genuine! Your care and communication of the truth in instruction and transparency is extraordinary! There is no else like you! And we are incredibly Thankful for you!!
You find an interview with Dr. Iain Campbell on this channel that might be interesting for you. He studies Bipolar and published recently in Nature on Bipolar. More interesting for you is that he put his own Bipolar 2 Disorder in remission using ketogenic diet years ago and is in remission since without medication. He describes a moment a few weeks after starting keto when without any reason he started to feel good and happy. He was able to continue his academic career, married and had children. He is convinced that he would not have achieved this without the metabolic intervention.
I don't know WHY it took me so long to accept that I need to write things down that I want to discuss with the doctor. I did it for the first time this week with the eye doctor and I believe it really helped him understand what was going on and what kind of help I needed. Absolutely yes, everyone should be writing things down before doctor appointments. Thank you for bringing that up.
Thank you for this incredibly important message. It's so true, that there is so much emphasis on just getting by and symptom management, that we become completely disconnected from a key motivator - our own values, what brings us meaning, our whole wellbeing, etc. Acceptance and commitment therapy was a huge influence on me when it came to re-imagining my relationship with mental health challenges and the healthcare system - acting more in alignment with what brought me purpose, irrespective of my mental health challenges. I so have appreciated your vulnerability, honesty, and eloquent way of navigating these tough conversations and being such a source of light for those of us living with chronic MH challenges.
Hello, I am a mental health provider and have been for 35 years. I think your advice is excellent. I’m so glad that there are some peer support available for folks with mental illnesses. We as your providers also have a lot of challenges, including large caseloads incredibly challenging documentation demands. if we work together, it is much easier to help you. If we make recommendations, please try them. If you need help, please ask. Try to put together social supports. We cannot fix your mental illness as in make it as if you don’t have a severe mental illness, but we can definitely work with you to make your progress and your overall quality of life significantly better. It’s okay if a certain provider is not right for you but please give it some time.
From the outside looking in (coming from the POV of someone who has dwarfism and stayed in hospitals a lot, and as someone who knows mentally disordered people and is related to healthcare professionals) I think the other side is dealing with people who may not be in their right mind and trying to balance omg, this person needs to be committed but that is going to suck and what if I’m wrong and etc. I honestly can’t imagine dealing with bereaved families and friends because their psychotic or suicidal loved ones went off the rails and a tragedy happened. That’s gotta be awful!!! I
Thank you for this comment. I have worked with a therapist for as long as I can remember but my current one I have been with for quite a while and I would agree there are many challenges that providers face but if both sides are open , direct and clear in their intended outcome it can prove to be more beneficial towards both sides
I agree, especially since I get frustrated when people are not direct (obviously don’t be rude unless it’s literally the last resort and the only way to get your point across!) I am still appalled by Lauren making a video being upset that her psychiatrist was not enthusiastic about her experiment and as opposed to politely bringing it up directly, she made a video being….I’m all for Canadian politeness but this is ridiculous. Same with not filing complaints against the police who pushed her around and were rude to her!!! At some point people need to just stand up for themselves and in these cases their relatives need to learn that too!!
@@EJ1443 something that has been very helpful in the community where I work are Crisis Intervention Trained (CIT) officers. They have special training in dealing with persons with mental illnesses and they have been great when I’ve worked with them.
Yes. I am neurodivergent and my diagnosis is ADHD. I am 71 and was only formally diagnosed at age 71. I gave suffered many losses over the past decade the worst being my younger brother who was my person. Two years ago I broke up with my partner in f ten years and my lifelong closest “friends” abandoned me taking ng his side He managed to get me fired from my great job of 17 years. This all sounds dramatic and crazy but it is truth. I have been in therapy for almost five years 1:06 since my brother passed. This is a much needed luxury fir me. My trouble are not as bad as yours but I do empathize.
This really rings true! I have so often wished for exactly what you described - that a specific appointment or interaction with the medical professionals in my life will fix me. It is both painful and so empowering to realize that I am in charge of my own healing. It's inspiring to see someone like you who knows this and is better because of it!
I resonate a lot with what you said here. I struggle with depression, PTSD and occasional psychosis. I've been seeing healthcare providers on and off since 2015, and every time I keep hoping that *this one* will fix me. I even ended up moving to a group home in the hopes that they could help me find a cure from my illness. I've been doing a lot of self searching lately. I'm trying to wash more, go outside more, etc. despite depression and I've currently not been able to find a new psychologist since 2023. So, I appreciate the video. Maybe the tips in here will be able to help me tackle my mental health better than I've been able to so far, and help me wash myself more than once a week. God bless, and thanks for the help, Lauren.
@@JohnNiesyn I had one at one point. The meds helped, I suppose, but it wasn't really fixing anything. It was mostly just suppressing everything, without really teaching me how to cope with it all. So it didn't feel very useful, and I eventually gave up the meds to find help elsewhere. That being said, I'd be open to trying a combo of meds and therapy if I absolutely had to. But I'd much rather like to improve as a person and find coping techniques that way, since meds suck so much; Lauren's able to do it, so why can't I, you know? :)
@@marraine7299 As Lauren indicates, there is a long learning curve (often many years) in the relationships with therapists (psychiatrists, psychologists, and others) for most patients. I suggest that you find the best psychiatrist you can (probably a woman for you), and learn to trust her (or not) and follow her recommendations. And as a practical matter, I suggest that you bathe everyday.
Self-advocacy is important, but this video is edging too close to "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" territory for me. One of the things I used to like about this channel was the acknowledgment of people who were less privileged than you. This video is tone deaf; it's much easier to advocate for yourself and research alternative treatments when you are highly educated, intelligent, and not facing other systemic disadvantages. I've been self-advocating for 20 years, and even as a middle class, white woman, I've faced significant challenges in navigating the psychiatric care system. The ketogenic diet is not waiting in the wings for village idiots to find; it's an inaccessible, life-limiting, and experimental treatment modality that by some stroke of luck worked for you (to be clear, as someone who has watched this channel since the very beginning, I am genuinely happy for you). For some, their capacity to function is so compromised that they do not have the energy or wherewithal required to actively seek out other providers, participate meaningfully in their care, or engage in excessive exercise. I'm unsubscribing because I'm disappointed with what you have done with this channel. Happy for you, respect your choices, but I don't want to hear anymore keto proselytizing. I miss the content that was more inclusive and explored social issues surrounding mental illness, and no, I'm not interested in hearing about how impoverished people who are living in squalor on paltry government benefits can implement a ketogenic diet.
You better PREACH 🗣🗣🗣👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 I've said very similar things and I'm a poor Black Indigenous chronically ill disabled woman living in Puerto Rico originally from the US which I can no longer afford. Can't even barely afford to eat now. I really wish she would be put in a life swap to have a VERY serious reality check.
there is no easy solution to the mental health issues i have faced. medications, a diet, etc, there is no quick fix for me. i had the same hope for doctors, and having struggled with my weight my whole life, i had the same hope for every single diet i have ever been on. none of these things ever rid me of my issues. it seems like in my case, a more balanced approach where i look to things both outside of me and within me are the most sustainable approach to healing.
Agreed, there are no quick fixes. The injury to your brain took years (that's why most people aren't diagnosed until late teens or 20's or 30's and we don't see many young children with these diseases) and if even possible, makes sense that it will take a long time to heal and reverse that injury.
I've just given up. I used to wait for my next therapist or psychiatry appointment, and realized that it would never meet my needs. In trying to thrive, I've been extensively abused, ignored, and got two double impact events. I ended up with occipital neuralgia, post concussive syndrome, and am being relentlessly harassed by a lot of people in my town. I'm envious of the MAID program at this point, and am very much involved in Right to Die movements.
I wish mental health providers would be more up-front about the fact that they are focused on symptom management. The vagueness in timelines, goals, and expectations has made this journey incredibly difficult for me.
Amazing, what you're doing! YES people, no one knows you like you do! Speak up for yourself! More doctors and clinicians appreciate that nowadays, but there is still a ways to go. Self Advocate!
You can write a book on ketogenic diet daily meal plan based on what you ate and avoid for like what you ate daily] for mental illness. What was your meal plan for a week? What about beverages, what drinks did you consume while on ketogenic?
Thank you for this video, but it's so hard , sometimes while struggling with my depression I find myself devastated , there are days in which I can't stop crying and medication can only do so much. In those days my therapist, who is great at her job, doesn't know what to tell me. She suggests me to distract myself watching a movie or something and that doesn't help me. I need to start taking control of my mental illness but it's so hard.
The dietary changes Lauren is talking about seem hard at first because it is such a departure from what we and everyone around us is accustom to doing, but the results are so well worth the temporary discomfort change brings. Being free of mental dysfunction opens up the entire world. All of the energy I once devoted to trying to push through depression or to calm my anxious mind is now available for daily living and doing the things I love. I don't have to push myself to behave in a desired manner because I just am I as I wish to be.
I look forward to the goals and wellness video. I am overwhelmed a bit. Learning to do self care is hard when you are down and out. Sometimes I can't get motivated because of the negative symptoms of scitzoaffective depression type
Part of this is probably the idea that health 'care' is a misnomer, they are not supposed to take care of you, they are supposed to offer a service. You don't call your grocery store your food provider or nutrition care center.
You give lots of great ideas in this video! Thanks for sharing!!! Taking care of yourself can sure be overwhelming and exhausting.... Who is all on your "permanent" or ongoing care team? Nicole? A psychiatrist?
What makes me angry (yes I am direct! and I am talking to doctors and not Lauren - Lauren is absolutely great): * Why do I wait and pay for a psychiatrist when they are not willing to REALLY help me? If I am going to a doctor I want to have a cure for my problem and not symptom management. Why not even one doctor talked to me honestly and said: "hey, I am not able to really help your disease but I can take a bit of your pain away with medication." ? * Why do psychiatrists/doctors not learn about the newest cure for mental illness? like metabolic treatment and keto diet? Why should I - (a random person who did not study medicine and is trying to trust a "educated person" to help my serious disease) - search hours and hours for a cure, on my own and not these doctors? I always thought its their JOB to research and be on top of their game? Why all of the time I am the person who talks about metabolic treatment and keto diet and doctors are looking at me like a crazy person? *Also: I pay a lot of money for a psychiatrist - why should I do their job and guide THEM? They should know what to do. I mean why do I even pay? *Why do doctors prescribe SSRIs without even asking if I have developed healthy habits in my life and exercise regularly, and I mean every day or every two days? *Why do doctors not warn the patients about medication side effects? Why am I gaining weight FAST and a doctor is only gaslighting me and telling me it's all in my head and I eat more - even though I know medication altered my metabolism? *why no doctor is able to help with tapering and withdrawal from ssri? Why should I research alone? Doctors are prescribing me these medications but are not able to help with tapering and severe symptoms with tapering/withdrawal? What the h*ll is going on? I am sorry for my bad English but seriously - I don't get what is even happening and we all should accept it? I live in Europe, in a good city and literally 9 psychiatrists really disappointed me in these points. I am a very logical person and I really don't get why so many doctors just left me alone with my depression. And you know what? I am now doing low carb + exercise every day and taper medication by myself, alone, and it's very hard but finally I can see real success. And I am very, very frustrated and angry. To be really really honest it really hurt me. Painful experience and I hope everyone who experienced the same and understands me knows that there is a way out. There is hope and you are NOT alone or CRAZY. Thank you Lauren for your video. Bless you.
I think symptom management - rather than a focus on thriving - is rampant through all of so-called healthcare. Not just mental health. I fired by GP a couple of years ago when I realized she was never going to be helpful in my goal of thriving. I have taken that in my own hands now.
This is unfortunately really true, no one but you is going to save you. I think a lot of medical professionals also don't have to regularly renew their knowledge so they're very rusty. Sometimes newer ones are best as they're still fresh. If you start working on your wellness, you'll quickly feel a lot better and depending on what you're consuming you'll also possibly become a bit of a know-it-all annoyance to anyone whose degree may need a refresher course 😅
Hi Lauren, I wonder if you could help me on my situation: I’ve been following the keto diet for 3 months to treat my schizoaffective disorder with success - I managed to taper off part of my medication and was feeling great. Recently I started going for long walks and the last few days I started have concentration problems again. Anyone experienced this before? How should I proceed next? Thank you for your time :)
Congrats on the success you've had. I think your ketones may be off kilter again because you added your exercise. You may need to tweak your keto diet to compensate.
So many variables are possible. Main one sthat come to mind - you're still on medicine - it could be the side effects still occuring. You might be deficient in certain vitamins or supplements. Are you measuring the ketones and blood glucose? Maybe you're not in a therapeutic level that works for you.
@@lexamdelac28I was ok until a few days ago and taking supplements. I’ve been avoiding pricking my finger all the time but I guess I’ll finally buy the keto monitor to measure my ketones. Thanks!
@@lexamdelac28I’ve been avoiding pricking my finger all the time but I guess I’m finally going to get a keto monitor to keep track of my ketones. Thanks!
unfortunately there is no mental health care in America. If there was, mental health would be getting better overall, not exponentially worse. Just look at the statistics, self harm, overdoses and su*cide rates
If I can ask you please, your hallucinations are gone with keto, but the fatigue, the inability to even shower often times and other difficulties that come with schizophrenia and depression, did they disappear too ? Thank you ! 🙏
A notable example in how I show I am in charge of my mental health care is having made a choice to voluntarily change my Part D prescription plan to be on a plan that has my antipsychotic in the formulary.
Having MS I must say having a chronic disease is the loneliest thing one can experience It's easy to get angry and frustrated But I just realized I'm a hipocrite myself for I would also not have had the Empathy for someone that suffers as well from this type of disease In a sense I'm grateful for my MS It made me a better person.
Hi Lauren, in your experience, how can a relative help in this process of awareness and ownership of selfcare? I feel quite useless for my brother, I am always wondering what could I do to improve his condition and help him in achieving what matters to him
You seem to not have the typical symptoms of poor insight; auditory processing; and executive functing challenges that goes with SAD. I don’t know the answer, but my son is stable from psychiatric symptoms and therapy is focused on how to manage those other parts. You are unique. I’m an advocate and have seen the it all.
I'm all about the self advocacy because otherwise I would never make progress. Any progress I made was a result of me insisting that my doctors investigate certain things and try certain meds. But doctors need to do better. They need to change their approach on a business level. You can advocate for yourself and provide more information than they need, but ultimately the majority of doctors don't want to do the work that's really needed. Their job becomes a conveyer belt of payments. The faster they see every patient, the more they can see in one day = more money earned per day. I'm so sick and tired of being told that I don't know anything about my own 20 year health struggle because I'm the patient and not the doctor. Doctors work for YOU
The “care” team needs to offer all options. They don’t. They offer hopelessness. They don’t want to listen to the patient’s opinions. That’s my experience
What if we don’t have a care team like you do or the financial means to get one. I tried keto on my own and it’s just not working for me because I myself am not an expert and I can’t do it right. In my country psychiatrists only prescribe medications. Not ketogenic diet. I don’t have money for keto coaches or nutritionists. Or a private psychiatrist who would work with them. You are privileged and many of us are not. And we just have to keep taking medications because we can’t afford what you have.
Making money on RUclips posting click bait vidoes and charging fees to join a "peer support community". Affiliate links to keto gadgets and merchandising tshirts, cups, bags. Getting paid to speak as a mental health advocate. I wonder if she and her husband are living well on inheritance? Some people say this is their only form of income? And that they started a GoFundMe page last year, desperate for money? They live large compared to the majority that have this illness. I think it is a form of exploiting the mental health community.
Good advice Lauren...thanks for yr updates..I'm sure I'm not the only one to be gripped to my seat watching you come off meds... I'm gonna wait till I get to India now so I can experiment with Indian vego keto. Looked into a couple of products lately...Gaba and L theanine...apparently they re good for anxiety so might help with the pills "tapering"...gonna try it anyway.
Yes, we get the redundant message: MASTER your life, MASTER your illness. But, dear friend, you're only half way through and there's still a lot to come, believe me. And it will make you realize: Life is bigger than you might think.
Please, I have been hurting for over 12 years, it’s not a mental illness, it’s brain torture done remotely from outside somehow. The tinnitus and brain stimulations, is all controlled from outside, please just let me go, no meds work. Please 🙏🏻 I am old and tired , I am 38 I need to move on, I can’t keep living like this.
@@margaretsharpe148my suggestion is to go to an emergency ward of a suburban hospital and be completely honest about what you are experiencing. Medical science works miracles, save the diet for when you are stable.
Hi Lauren, I clicked the link to join the Discord server for the metabolic therapy community but when it takes you to Discord it says the link is no longer active.
The “clinicians” here spend little time, just want to prescribe meds and do not want to hear any ideas from the patient. And my son has suffered abuse from psych hospitals. And no one knows how to taper or about diet. They just want people to stay on meds for life in the USA. I hope Robert Kennedy will change this hopeless and harmful system of psychiatry.
We must ask "what can I do?" because, at the moment, that is the only real option. Doctors believe that mental health conditions are life long, chronic conditions. However, exercise is better than antidepressants (and antidepressants are about as good as placebo). Ketogeneic therapy is giving hope to completely put mental illnesses and other neurological and metabolic disorders into remission. There can be a way of treating people suffering from poor mental health without drugs (even for critical care). We need more of that.
Hey Lauren, great video! One thing I would say tho is maybe, if you can, buy a pop filter (I may be wrong about it being called that 😭) bc I’ve noticed that in a lot of these videos I can hear your spit when you’re talking sometimes and myf if you alr know this but I just wanted to mention! But ofc I love your videos ❤
What do you do when people want to order your merchandise? Now they have choices: "living well withor after schizophrenia." It's like the Eddie Izzard "cake or death" joke.
If you have the ability to research, advocate and take control I completely understand. However I think there is some very significant privilege being flexed here that is not being addressed. SDOH is ~80% of health and only 20% actual medical care, but those most vulnerable simply don’t have the capacity to take control in that way and I feel like the messaging here and in this channel overall is filled with assumptions about SDOH support that is not true for the majority.
@benjones1452 i have nothing to lose. Nothing is holding me more in this life, not that I am depressed or anything no. But my will to live is related to helping people with mental disorders such as Schizophrenia bipolar or Schizoaffective... I dont care about the rest anymore
I've noticed that people in my circle who have some type of mental health issue spend little time outdoors, follow an unhealthy diet, and lead a sedentary lifestyle.
Are you sponsored by ketogenics. Get you family on camera telling youtube they support you, your doing good and they don't see you in crisis at the moment. What your doing is so wrong,your the patient not the expert. Im waiting for the acknowledgment of been wrong,I was, should I say. Now I'm waiting for the consequences. Frightening to watch and see if its you or the viewer that will hurt themselves. I do believe my post will feed your illness. I read you where a narcissist on one of your videos,I didn't believe it. Maybe that's what I'm seeing mores so. Again are you sponsored by ketogenics. Why I sound angry,I see someone,being very irresponsible,who less than a year ago had issues. She has people with the same/ similar illnesses listening to her. Your letting people down,you don't know anything about them eg intelligence,what their illness pushes them todo,how to listen. Be carefull like her she's not an expert,she's an expert in herself only,with an illness. Btw the only time of posted on a youtube channel,its that dangerous what your doing.
I kind of don't buy your supposed concern over people who live with schizophrenia. While I do think you give good advice, what do you actually do to support treatment and awareness other than being a talking head? I know for a short time you worked for the schizophrenia society, but I heard you quit because you wanted to be on the board of directors. I hate to say it and I know you will delete iit, but there are much more people who are homeless and dealing with addictions plus schizophrenia, along with millions of americans whose largest treatment centres are county jail systems. Putting your whole life into convincing people a diet and not taking the advice of medical science plus making money off of it is a pretty petty way to make yourself out as an advocate for the mentally ill. Sorry, I don't mean to insult you and you do accimplish many things, but I don't see you as a positive force in the lives of so many vulnerable people.
This is just what more irrelevant attacks on character, more whataboutism, honestly I don't care about what you heard. I don't buy your story Leif, which hasn't been deleted incidentally, because maybe the content and the impact of this therapy is more important than Lauren or your pettiness. Go fight for the very real problems we face on the streets if that's where your journey takes you, but man, this has been the most amazing reprieve for me, for my struggle with this and I don't give a fig for your perception of the value of that! I will not be a zombie or a husk, you can take your scepticism and shove it.
@benjones1452 gosh you must be a freaking genius. I made no attacks on character, I just stated that I don't buy the concerned advocate act. For heaven's sake they sell t-shirts to disabled people for $41.00. I'm glad you found an 'intervention' that works for you but that doesn't mean you have any say over my opinion. Without a doubt, I checked with many professiinals and every one laughed at the idea of keto being a cure for schizophrenia. yet, just a few weeks off meds and Lauren broadcasts that she has cured her schiziphrenia. I am simply more concerned about people homeless, in psychosis and in dire need of medication and treatment from real medical personnel. Even if it worked, how in the heck do you give a ranting and raving homeless person keto? These people are cold and desperate and what they need are shoes, not videos. Have you ever walked through a community of homeless people passing out cold weather wear and snacks? Do you know how many people die on the streets in winter? Here, hundreds every winter and 65% of homeless people have a chronic mental illness. I have tried to help all I can, including working for a homeless drop-in and giving up to four talks a week to young people in schools and Universities.about mental health awareness. But I don't make videos of myself and squeeze every bit of profit from it. I recognize a need for awareness and assistsnce and I do what I can. I have no problem with Lauren doing so well and succeeding with her channel, her and her husband work hard. I just think when you claim to help people with the illness there are far better ways to do it and though they may not realize it, they could easily do many people harm. Don't pretend to know me or know better than me. I spent years teaching psychiatric hospital patients creative writung.. I developed special classes for inpatients on psychiatruc wards several times. My oldest friend lost her daughter to suicide resulting from schizophrenia. I have written large amounts of newspaper and magazine articles about mental health along with three paperbacks I wrote about mental illness. My work has apoeared in The British Journal of psychiatry and The Stanford Social Innovation review and is in libraries across Canada including The Psychosocial Rehabilitation Library. Though you may not care about what I have to say, I think I have not onky a right but an obligation to call out people who may do harm to the vulnerable and suggestible people who listen to garbage from people like you. I have lived with schizophrenia longer than Lauren has been alive and I keep myself sane by giving service to others who are ill, not by beung paid by a corporation to promote some fad diet. Of course I also take excellent meds and see my psychiatrist often. I wish Lauren no ill will, I totally understand her and her husband have a family to raise, but I reserve my right to speak freely on a public channel. By the way, two comments I made were deleted.today alone. Unfortunately as ut is a pubkic channel I am unable to use descriptive words to tell you what I think of uneducated trolls like yourself.
I find it alarming how her followers rudely defend her. And fluff her ego constantly. She has her own keto kingdom and she is the queen! The term "cult of personality" is applicable. And I think it's disgusting how they make RUclips a click bait affiliate business on the backs of those who seriously suffer while living in their luxury cushioned life with complete disregard for the majority and potentially causing people to harm themselves taking all of their advice, looking like medical advisors without a license to practice medicine. You'll notice the counter acting defensive responses come from same voices and yes, I had my comment deleted that said they are making at least $1500k month just on their peer community alone and NAMI (National Institute for Mental Illness) is widely available and free. What genuine peer support community charges a fee to walk thru the door?
And there's nothing in place for accountability. Nothing. Will they change their approach when people come off their meds, go on "keto", fail and kill themselves? Suicide is the number #1 killer of people who have schizophrenia. This lady has a eating disorder on top of a mental illness advising people to go off their meds and go on a diet. Crazy!!!!
*JOIN OUR ONLINE PEER SUPPORT COMMUNITIES*
Metabolic Therapies for Mental Disorders: www.metabolictherapysupport.com/
Schizophrenia Peer Support Community: www.schizophreniapeersupport.com
The Discord invitation seems to be invalid
I posted this as well and she seems to have deleted my comment? @@malling1963
What was your target ketone level?
hi your story was very touching, thanks for sharing,
Keep making videos. You're healthy now and got the whole world in your hands. Do not care about any deluded people commenting nonsense.
My therapist and psychiatrist both complimented me on my self-advocacy. Neither of them brought medical keto to my attention. It was something I brought to their attention with your channel’s help. I was glad they were open minded and supportive enough to see me through the transition.
I met a neighbor about 2 weeks ago. I live in a 55 and older community with my parents. I told her why I live with them and she revealed that she cared for her now deceased brother for years because he had schizophrenia. I told her about medical keto, and how my symptoms were in remission with zero medication. She held my hand and was on the verge of tears when I walked away because she was so happy with the news of improvement.
Good video. Good advice.
That is so cool, I would like to complement you too. ❤🩹
@@benjones1452the word compliment/complement is a homophone, a word that sounds the same but mean different things. I’m not sure if u knew that or if u meant one or the other, but u can google them to use at ur discretion lol
@@benjones1452 Thank you!
A word of caution for those who are in the early stages of a psychiatric illness: you only become an expert of your condition with time. More often than not you may have a very delusional view of taking care of things yourself and therefore rejecting medication, for example. So, take your time and learn to collaborate.
Exactly. Lauren is just beginning her med-free journey. You can only know it’s a stable situation after 3 years minimum.
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Very sound advice.
It's been hard to find support like I had when my husband was alive. Doing things on my own is more taxing than when I had help in that way. Glad that you have Rob as such a great support. I'm hoping to remarry some day to a supportive man like that.
Thank you to those brave souls who are going into this so carefully and methodically and giving us all this advice, putting themselves on the line. I remember when a nurse told me that this would be with me my whole life, I was nineteen, and it was the most devastating day of my life (for some reason her voice rather than all the doctors is the voice that stays with me.) I know that we all have moments like this, painful realisations that somehow or for some reason we are told that we are to suffer this for the rest of our lives. Furthermore, I respect caution, and acceptance is important, and I feel that being stoic is valuable, but for me this therapy has been transformative, thank you.
As a counselor, my goal is to have my clients thrive, not symptom management, but it does take time. It's not something that happens overnight, especially with trauma or severe mental health conditions. I will never give up hope on my clients. I always tell my clients to write down questions in between sessions.
Do you feel your role extends to advocacy between the professionals on a client's team, that is the kind of joined up support that I feel is often missing?
My mental illness started out as schizophrenia then bipolar and that idea of hope lasted for 30 years. I finally got connected with a good psychiatrist. He prescribed Invega (Paliperidone) which for me is awesome. No side effects except weird dreams at night. The med is awesome and it works .
I have the same experience. But bassicly there is side effects but not big enough in my life to be a game changer. I do voluntary work 3 times a week, and I run 4 days a week, one some days I do more. I have discipline and all that.
Thank you for this. I add that everything you’ve said here applies to all forms of medical care. When I was a kid, I remember being treated as a broken object rather than a person by many doctors. Many of them would talk to my parents but never to me. Now I view doctors appointments much like job interviews. They work for me, not the other way around.
Agreed. this approach is important in all aspects of medicine. This became very obvious in the world of Type 2 diabetes over the last couple of decades. If anyone with type 2 followed the advice given by the Diabetes Societies around the world, and by extension their doctors, the best they could hope for was managing their symptoms and slowing the progression. It wasn't until people started to go outside their doctors' advice, doing almost the opposite as their doctors suggested as far as diet is concerned and reversing their disease, that finally the Diabetes Associations admitted, although with very little fanfare, that it might actually be possible to reverse the disease.
I hope that mental illness will also have similar results, but if its even possible, it will take decades for this to take hold.
Absolutely
Your excellence is pure and most genuine!
Your care and communication of the truth in instruction and transparency is extraordinary!
There is no else like you!
And we are incredibly
Thankful for you!!
29 yo here. No job, no purpose, no dreams, no pleasure from life. Bipolar type 2 among many other health conditions. Life is awesome.
Look into Matt Baszucki's story. Maybe even see if you can get in touch with him. He was where you were and about your age but no longer is.
You find an interview with Dr. Iain Campbell on this channel that might be interesting for you. He studies Bipolar and published recently in Nature on Bipolar. More interesting for you is that he put his own Bipolar 2 Disorder in remission using ketogenic diet years ago and is in remission since without medication. He describes a moment a few weeks after starting keto when without any reason he started to feel good and happy. He was able to continue his academic career, married and had children. He is convinced that he would not have achieved this without the metabolic intervention.
I don't know WHY it took me so long to accept that I need to write things down that I want to discuss with the doctor. I did it for the first time this week with the eye doctor and I believe it really helped him understand what was going on and what kind of help I needed. Absolutely yes, everyone should be writing things down before doctor appointments. Thank you for bringing that up.
Thank you for this incredibly important message. It's so true, that there is so much emphasis on just getting by and symptom management, that we become completely disconnected from a key motivator - our own values, what brings us meaning, our whole wellbeing, etc. Acceptance and commitment therapy was a huge influence on me when it came to re-imagining my relationship with mental health challenges and the healthcare system - acting more in alignment with what brought me purpose, irrespective of my mental health challenges. I so have appreciated your vulnerability, honesty, and eloquent way of navigating these tough conversations and being such a source of light for those of us living with chronic MH challenges.
Hello, I am a mental health provider and have been for 35 years. I think your advice is excellent. I’m so glad that there are some peer support available for folks with mental illnesses. We as your providers also have a lot of challenges, including large caseloads incredibly challenging documentation demands. if we work together, it is much easier to help you. If we make recommendations, please try them. If you need help, please ask. Try to put together social supports. We cannot fix your mental illness as in make it as if you don’t have a severe mental illness, but we can definitely work with you to make your progress and your overall quality of life significantly better. It’s okay if a certain provider is not right for you but please give it some time.
From the outside looking in (coming from the POV of someone who has dwarfism and stayed in hospitals a lot, and as someone who knows mentally disordered people and is related to healthcare professionals) I think the other side is dealing with people who may not be in their right mind and trying to balance omg, this person needs to be committed but that is going to suck and what if I’m wrong and etc. I honestly can’t imagine dealing with bereaved families and friends because their psychotic or suicidal loved ones went off the rails and a tragedy happened. That’s gotta be awful!!!
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Thank you for this comment. I have worked with a therapist for as long as I can remember but my current one I have been with for quite a while and I would agree there are many challenges that providers face but if both sides are open , direct and clear in their intended outcome it can prove to be more beneficial towards both sides
I agree, especially since I get frustrated when people are not direct (obviously don’t be rude unless it’s literally the last resort and the only way to get your point across!) I am still appalled by Lauren making a video being upset that her psychiatrist was not enthusiastic about her experiment and as opposed to politely bringing it up directly, she made a video being….I’m all for Canadian politeness but this is ridiculous. Same with not filing complaints against the police who pushed her around and were rude to her!!! At some point people need to just stand up for themselves and in these cases their relatives need to learn that too!!
@@EJ1443 something that has been very helpful in the community where I work are Crisis Intervention Trained (CIT) officers. They have special training in dealing with persons with mental illnesses and they have been great when I’ve worked with them.
@@EJ1443 it can be very hard but also very rewarding.
Yes. I am neurodivergent and my diagnosis is ADHD. I am 71 and was only formally diagnosed at age 71. I gave suffered many losses over the past decade the worst being my younger brother who was my person. Two years ago I broke up with my partner in f ten years and my lifelong closest “friends” abandoned me taking ng his side He managed to get me fired from my great job of 17 years. This all sounds dramatic and crazy but it is truth. I have been in therapy for almost five years 1:06 since my brother passed. This is a much needed luxury fir me. My trouble are not as bad as yours but I do empathize.
This really rings true! I have so often wished for exactly what you described - that a specific appointment or interaction with the medical professionals in my life will fix me. It is both painful and so empowering to realize that I am in charge of my own healing. It's inspiring to see someone like you who knows this and is better because of it!
I resonate a lot with what you said here. I struggle with depression, PTSD and occasional psychosis. I've been seeing healthcare providers on and off since 2015, and every time I keep hoping that *this one* will fix me. I even ended up moving to a group home in the hopes that they could help me find a cure from my illness.
I've been doing a lot of self searching lately. I'm trying to wash more, go outside more, etc. despite depression and I've currently not been able to find a new psychologist since 2023. So, I appreciate the video. Maybe the tips in here will be able to help me tackle my mental health better than I've been able to so far, and help me wash myself more than once a week.
God bless, and thanks for the help, Lauren.
I believe that you need a psychiatrist, not a psychologist.
@@JohnNiesyn I had one at one point. The meds helped, I suppose, but it wasn't really fixing anything. It was mostly just suppressing everything, without really teaching me how to cope with it all. So it didn't feel very useful, and I eventually gave up the meds to find help elsewhere.
That being said, I'd be open to trying a combo of meds and therapy if I absolutely had to. But I'd much rather like to improve as a person and find coping techniques that way, since meds suck so much; Lauren's able to do it, so why can't I, you know? :)
@@marraine7299 As Lauren indicates, there is a long learning curve (often many years) in the relationships with therapists (psychiatrists, psychologists, and others) for most patients. I suggest that you find the best psychiatrist you can (probably a woman for you), and learn to trust her (or not) and follow her recommendations. And as a practical matter, I suggest that you bathe everyday.
Such a beautiful evolution, Lauren. Self-care is such an important topic toward recovery. Appreciation for your expertise
That's a beautiful statement as a whole. As a health care provider, I completely agree with you. Thank you.
Thank you for your insights. I have been waiting for “a miracle” … and I’m 65. One day at a time. But yes, I have learned to advocate for myself. ❤
Self-advocacy is important, but this video is edging too close to "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" territory for me. One of the things I used to like about this channel was the acknowledgment of people who were less privileged than you. This video is tone deaf; it's much easier to advocate for yourself and research alternative treatments when you are highly educated, intelligent, and not facing other systemic disadvantages. I've been self-advocating for 20 years, and even as a middle class, white woman, I've faced significant challenges in navigating the psychiatric care system. The ketogenic diet is not waiting in the wings for village idiots to find; it's an inaccessible, life-limiting, and experimental treatment modality that by some stroke of luck worked for you (to be clear, as someone who has watched this channel since the very beginning, I am genuinely happy for you).
For some, their capacity to function is so compromised that they do not have the energy or wherewithal required to actively seek out other providers, participate meaningfully in their care, or engage in excessive exercise.
I'm unsubscribing because I'm disappointed with what you have done with this channel. Happy for you, respect your choices, but I don't want to hear anymore keto proselytizing. I miss the content that was more inclusive and explored social issues surrounding mental illness, and no, I'm not interested in hearing about how impoverished people who are living in squalor on paltry government benefits can implement a ketogenic diet.
You better PREACH 🗣🗣🗣👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 I've said very similar things and I'm a poor Black Indigenous chronically ill disabled woman living in Puerto Rico originally from the US which I can no longer afford. Can't even barely afford to eat now. I really wish she would be put in a life swap to have a VERY serious reality check.
Combination approach had been most effective for helping me manage bipolar 1 disorder & PTSD. Including meds & therapy.
there is no easy solution to the mental health issues i have faced. medications, a diet, etc, there is no quick fix for me. i had the same hope for doctors, and having struggled with my weight my whole life, i had the same hope for every single diet i have ever been on. none of these things ever rid me of my issues. it seems like in my case, a more balanced approach where i look to things both outside of me and within me are the most sustainable approach to healing.
Agreed, there are no quick fixes. The injury to your brain took years (that's why most people aren't diagnosed until late teens or 20's or 30's and we don't see many young children with these diseases) and if even possible, makes sense that it will take a long time to heal and reverse that injury.
You give a wonderful message of empowerment and are unique example of that.
Thank you, Lauren. That's exactly how I see the mental health care system as well.
I've just given up.
I used to wait for my next therapist or psychiatry appointment, and realized that it would never meet my needs.
In trying to thrive, I've been extensively abused, ignored, and got two double impact events. I ended up with occipital neuralgia, post concussive syndrome, and am being relentlessly harassed by a lot of people in my town.
I'm envious of the MAID program at this point, and am very much involved in Right to Die movements.
I wish mental health providers would be more up-front about the fact that they are focused on symptom management. The vagueness in timelines, goals, and expectations has made this journey incredibly difficult for me.
Amazing, what you're doing! YES people, no one knows you like you do! Speak up for yourself! More doctors and clinicians appreciate that nowadays, but there is still a ways to go. Self Advocate!
You can write a book on ketogenic diet daily meal plan based on what you ate and avoid for like what you ate daily] for mental illness. What was your meal plan for a week? What about beverages, what drinks did you consume while on ketogenic?
This is what I have learned watching your videos! Thank you!
Thank you for this video, but it's so hard , sometimes while struggling with my depression I find myself devastated , there are days in which I can't stop crying and medication can only do so much. In those days my therapist, who is great at her job, doesn't know what to tell me. She suggests me to distract myself watching a movie or something and that doesn't help me. I need to start taking control of my mental illness but it's so hard.
The dietary changes Lauren is talking about seem hard at first because it is such a departure from what we and everyone around us is accustom to doing, but the results are so well worth the temporary discomfort change brings. Being free of mental dysfunction opens up the entire world. All of the energy I once devoted to trying to push through depression or to calm my anxious mind is now available for daily living and doing the things I love. I don't have to push myself to behave in a desired manner because I just am I as I wish to be.
I look forward to the goals and wellness video. I am overwhelmed a bit. Learning to do self care is hard when you are down and out. Sometimes I can't get motivated because of the negative symptoms of scitzoaffective depression type
Part of this is probably the idea that health 'care' is a misnomer, they are not supposed to take care of you, they are supposed to offer a service.
You don't call your grocery store your food provider or nutrition care center.
Very much agree. This should be clearly explained to “patients” by providers throughout the entire care relationship.
You give lots of great ideas in this video! Thanks for sharing!!! Taking care of yourself can sure be overwhelming and exhausting.... Who is all on your "permanent" or ongoing care team? Nicole? A psychiatrist?
Nicole is a psychologist, not a psychiatrist… she f‘ up with her psychiatrist!
What makes me angry (yes I am direct! and I am talking to doctors and not Lauren - Lauren is absolutely great):
* Why do I wait and pay for a psychiatrist when they are not willing to REALLY help me? If I am going to a doctor I want to have a cure for my problem and not symptom management. Why not even one doctor talked to me honestly and said: "hey, I am not able to really help your disease but I can take a bit of your pain away with medication." ?
* Why do psychiatrists/doctors not learn about the newest cure for mental illness? like metabolic treatment and keto diet? Why should I - (a random person who did not study medicine and is trying to trust a "educated person" to help my serious disease) - search hours and hours for a cure, on my own and not these doctors? I always thought its their JOB to research and be on top of their game? Why all of the time I am the person who talks about metabolic treatment and keto diet and doctors are looking at me like a crazy person?
*Also: I pay a lot of money for a psychiatrist - why should I do their job and guide THEM? They should know what to do. I mean why do I even pay?
*Why do doctors prescribe SSRIs without even asking if I have developed healthy habits in my life and exercise regularly, and I mean every day or every two days?
*Why do doctors not warn the patients about medication side effects? Why am I gaining weight FAST and a doctor is only gaslighting me and telling me it's all in my head and I eat more - even though I know medication altered my metabolism?
*why no doctor is able to help with tapering and withdrawal from ssri? Why should I research alone? Doctors are prescribing me these medications but are not able to help with tapering and severe symptoms with tapering/withdrawal?
What the h*ll is going on? I am sorry for my bad English but seriously - I don't get what is even happening and we all should accept it? I live in Europe, in a good city and literally 9 psychiatrists really disappointed me in these points. I am a very logical person and I really don't get why so many doctors just left me alone with my depression. And you know what? I am now doing low carb + exercise every day and taper medication by myself, alone, and it's very hard but finally I can see real success. And I am very, very frustrated and angry. To be really really honest it really hurt me. Painful experience and I hope everyone who experienced the same and understands me knows that there is a way out. There is hope and you are NOT alone or CRAZY. Thank you Lauren for your video. Bless you.
Sounds like you've already learned the lessons Lauren talks about in this video.
I think symptom management - rather than a focus on thriving - is rampant through all of so-called healthcare. Not just mental health. I fired by GP a couple of years ago when I realized she was never going to be helpful in my goal of thriving. I have taken that in my own hands now.
This is unfortunately really true, no one but you is going to save you. I think a lot of medical professionals also don't have to regularly renew their knowledge so they're very rusty. Sometimes newer ones are best as they're still fresh.
If you start working on your wellness, you'll quickly feel a lot better and depending on what you're consuming you'll also possibly become a bit of a know-it-all annoyance to anyone whose degree may need a refresher course 😅
I would love to thrive!
Hi Lauren, I wonder if you could help me on my situation: I’ve been following the keto diet for 3 months to treat my schizoaffective disorder with success - I managed to taper off part of my medication and was feeling great. Recently I started going for long walks and the last few days I started have concentration problems again. Anyone experienced this before? How should I proceed next? Thank you for your time :)
Congrats on the success you've had. I think your ketones may be off kilter again because you added your exercise. You may need to tweak your keto diet to compensate.
So many variables are possible. Main one sthat come to mind - you're still on medicine - it could be the side effects still occuring. You might be deficient in certain vitamins or supplements. Are you measuring the ketones and blood glucose? Maybe you're not in a therapeutic level that works for you.
@Crystalsgarden Did not know the exercise would kick me out of ketosis - will give it a try, thanks!
@@lexamdelac28I was ok until a few days ago and taking supplements. I’ve been avoiding pricking my finger all the time but I guess I’ll finally buy the keto monitor to measure my ketones. Thanks!
@@lexamdelac28I’ve been avoiding pricking my finger all the time but I guess I’m finally going to get a keto monitor to keep track of my ketones. Thanks!
unfortunately there is no mental health care in America. If there was, mental health would be getting better overall, not exponentially worse. Just look at the statistics, self harm, overdoses and su*cide rates
Yes, mental illness rates are increasing at the same rates as metabolic illnesses. Probably a coincidence.
If I can ask you please, your hallucinations are gone with keto, but the fatigue, the inability to even shower often times and other difficulties that come with schizophrenia and depression, did they disappear too ? Thank you ! 🙏
It did for my son. Keto was able to help lower meds which was causing extreme lethargy. Hyperbolically tapering.
A notable example in how I show I am in charge of my mental health care is having made a choice to voluntarily change my Part D prescription plan to be on a plan that has my antipsychotic in the formulary.
Having MS I must say having a chronic disease is the loneliest thing one can experience It's easy to get angry and frustrated But I just realized I'm a hipocrite myself for I would also not have had the Empathy for someone that suffers as well from this type of disease In a sense I'm grateful for my MS It made me a better person.
Hi Lauren, in your experience, how can a relative help in this process of awareness and ownership of selfcare? I feel quite useless for my brother, I am always wondering what could I do to improve his condition and help him in achieving what matters to him
Twice. Two Times. Do you consider the fact that this person could use some support and advice and it may not be keto related? I am very dissapounted
You seem to not have the typical symptoms of poor insight; auditory processing; and executive functing challenges that goes with SAD. I don’t know the answer, but my son is stable from psychiatric symptoms and therapy is focused on how to manage those other parts. You are unique. I’m an advocate and have seen the it all.
Thanks for sharing it. You have touched on really important things.
I'm all about the self advocacy because otherwise I would never make progress. Any progress I made was a result of me insisting that my doctors investigate certain things and try certain meds.
But doctors need to do better. They need to change their approach on a business level.
You can advocate for yourself and provide more information than they need, but ultimately the majority of doctors don't want to do the work that's really needed. Their job becomes a conveyer belt of payments. The faster they see every patient, the more they can see in one day = more money earned per day.
I'm so sick and tired of being told that I don't know anything about my own 20 year health struggle because I'm the patient and not the doctor.
Doctors work for YOU
The “care” team needs to offer all options. They don’t. They offer hopelessness. They don’t want to listen to the patient’s opinions. That’s my experience
What if we don’t have a care team like you do or the financial means to get one. I tried keto on my own and it’s just not working for me because I myself am not an expert and I can’t do it right. In my country psychiatrists only prescribe medications. Not ketogenic diet. I don’t have money for keto coaches or nutritionists. Or a private psychiatrist who would work with them. You are privileged and many of us are not. And we just have to keep taking medications because we can’t afford what you have.
How do you survive economically? I have two kids to take care of. Barely eating.
Making money on RUclips posting click bait vidoes and charging fees to join a "peer support community". Affiliate links to keto gadgets and merchandising tshirts, cups, bags. Getting paid to speak as a mental health advocate. I wonder if she and her husband are living well on inheritance? Some people say this is their only form of income? And that they started a GoFundMe page last year, desperate for money? They live large compared to the majority that have this illness. I think it is a form of exploiting the mental health community.
Good advice Lauren...thanks for yr updates..I'm sure I'm not the only one to be gripped to my seat watching you come off meds...
I'm gonna wait till I get to India now so I can experiment with Indian vego keto.
Looked into a couple of products lately...Gaba and L theanine...apparently they re good for anxiety so might help with the pills "tapering"...gonna try it anyway.
No I never expected thart. I accepted Ill be living this way and it made it so much better.
thank you
Super.
Very happy for you
Yes, we get the redundant message: MASTER your life, MASTER your illness.
But, dear friend, you're only half way through and there's still a lot to come, believe me.
And it will make you realize: Life is bigger than you might think.
Great video ❤
Please, I have been hurting for over 12 years, it’s not a mental illness, it’s brain torture done remotely from outside somehow. The tinnitus and brain stimulations, is all controlled from outside, please just let me go, no meds work. Please 🙏🏻 I am old and tired , I am 38 I need to move on, I can’t keep living like this.
Well said Lauren!
@@margaretsharpe148my suggestion is to go to an emergency ward of a suburban hospital and be completely honest about what you are experiencing. Medical science works miracles, save the diet for when you are stable.
thoughts on a glucose controlled diet like eating vegetables before carbs to reduce glucose spike which is causing mental illness continuing
glucose spikes have nothing to do with schizophrenia. thats just on itself. They say it has to do with dopamine inbalanace.
YOU ROCK, LADY!!!♡✧*:･ﾟ This is SUCH an important message. Thank you.
Hi Lauren, I clicked the link to join the Discord server for the metabolic therapy community but when it takes you to Discord it says the link is no longer active.
Hey Lauren, I tried to join the discord group for metabolic therapies but it says the link/invite has expired.
Thanks Colin
W for Lauren ❤
The “clinicians” here spend little time, just want to prescribe meds and do not want to hear any ideas from the patient. And my son has suffered abuse from psych hospitals. And no one knows how to taper or about diet. They just want people to stay on meds for life in the USA. I hope Robert Kennedy will change this hopeless and harmful system of psychiatry.
We must ask "what can I do?" because, at the moment, that is the only real option. Doctors believe that mental health conditions are life long, chronic conditions. However, exercise is better than antidepressants (and antidepressants are about as good as placebo). Ketogeneic therapy is giving hope to completely put mental illnesses and other neurological and metabolic disorders into remission. There can be a way of treating people suffering from poor mental health without drugs (even for critical care). We need more of that.
Hey Lauren, great video! One thing I would say tho is maybe, if you can, buy a pop filter (I may be wrong about it being called that 😭) bc I’ve noticed that in a lot of these videos I can hear your spit when you’re talking sometimes and myf if you alr know this but I just wanted to mention! But ofc I love your videos ❤
I genuinely feel as though physicians do know how to cure/manage you best but they earn too much through pharmaceuticals. It’s such a shame.
Any Neurological problem is there to stay .... It cannot be rectified .... Only put into some form of temporary interruption by using medication ....
What do you do when people want to order your merchandise? Now they have choices: "living well withor after schizophrenia." It's like the Eddie Izzard "cake or death" joke.
On Discord - it says invite is invalid.
I've done a lot of journaling in my life, what about you?
and this is why becoming a nihlist or an anarchist is worth the while....become your own rock instead of just waiting
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Thank you for removing my comment! ;-)
RUclips is super buggy, on my phone I see all my comments and on by browser not so much, it is a joke!!
What you are discriminating is personal medicine
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If you have the ability to research, advocate and take control I completely understand. However I think there is some very significant privilege being flexed here that is not being addressed. SDOH is ~80% of health and only 20% actual medical care, but those most vulnerable simply don’t have the capacity to take control in that way and I feel like the messaging here and in this channel overall is filled with assumptions about SDOH support that is not true for the majority.
That is why the groups exist, in a very real way she is doing this for us so that we don't have to.
Comment here if you manage, your schizophrenia with the Keto genic diet, instead of the standart tradition treatment with medication.
I will die, to make those change happen.
Slightly ambiguous statement, I want to say "yeah" let's do it, but also "no," I don't want to die!
@benjones1452 i have nothing to lose. Nothing is holding me more in this life, not that I am depressed or anything no. But my will to live is related to helping people with mental disorders such as Schizophrenia bipolar or Schizoaffective... I dont care about the rest anymore
I wish I liked meat enough to stay on keto, plus i can't stand the after taste of low to zero sugar drinks/snacks. And oc it can get super expensive.
You could always do vegan keto. After eating low carb for a while, most people lose the cravings for sweet stuff.
Cheese, tofu, eggs, shrimp, protein powder
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DO I HAVE ZERO THAT
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I've noticed that people in my circle who have some type of mental health issue spend little time outdoors, follow an unhealthy diet, and lead a sedentary lifestyle.
Jesus Christ is the answer to all our problems 🙏 you git to believe this. You try everything else. Why not try Jesus 😢❤
Are you sponsored by ketogenics.
Get you family on camera telling youtube they support you, your doing good and they don't see you in crisis at the moment.
What your doing is so wrong,your the patient not the expert.
Im waiting for the acknowledgment of been wrong,I was, should I say.
Now I'm waiting for the consequences.
Frightening to watch and see if its you or the viewer that will hurt themselves.
I do believe my post will feed your illness.
I read you where a narcissist on one of your videos,I didn't believe it.
Maybe that's what I'm seeing mores so.
Again are you sponsored by ketogenics.
Why I sound angry,I see someone,being very irresponsible,who less than a year ago had issues.
She has people with the same/ similar illnesses listening to her.
Your letting people down,you don't know anything about them eg intelligence,what their illness pushes them todo,how to listen.
Be carefull like her she's not an expert,she's an expert in herself only,with an illness.
Btw the only time of posted on a youtube channel,its that dangerous what your doing.
You gotta get new prop sets, this background is horrible
debatable. I like it.
I kind of don't buy your supposed concern over people who live with schizophrenia. While I do think you give good advice, what do you actually do to support treatment and awareness other than being a talking head? I know for a short time you worked for the schizophrenia society, but I heard you quit because you wanted to be on the board of directors. I hate to say it and I know you will delete iit, but there are much more people who are homeless and dealing with addictions plus schizophrenia, along with millions of americans whose largest treatment centres are county jail systems. Putting your whole life into convincing people a diet and not taking the advice of medical science plus making money off of it is a pretty petty way to make yourself out as an advocate for the mentally ill. Sorry, I don't mean to insult you and you do accimplish many things, but I don't see you as a positive force in the lives of so many vulnerable people.
This is just what more irrelevant attacks on character, more whataboutism, honestly I don't care about what you heard. I don't buy your story Leif, which hasn't been deleted incidentally, because maybe the content and the impact of this therapy is more important than Lauren or your pettiness. Go fight for the very real problems we face on the streets if that's where your journey takes you, but man, this has been the most amazing reprieve for me, for my struggle with this and I don't give a fig for your perception of the value of that! I will not be a zombie or a husk, you can take your scepticism and shove it.
@benjones1452 gosh you must be a freaking genius. I made no attacks on character, I just stated that I don't buy the concerned advocate act. For heaven's sake they sell t-shirts to disabled people for $41.00. I'm glad you found an 'intervention' that works for you but that doesn't mean you have any say over my opinion. Without a doubt, I checked with many professiinals and every one laughed at the idea of keto being a cure for schizophrenia. yet, just a few weeks off meds and Lauren broadcasts that she has cured her schiziphrenia. I am simply more concerned about people homeless, in psychosis and in dire need of medication and treatment from real medical personnel. Even if it worked, how in the heck do you give a ranting and raving homeless person keto? These people are cold and desperate and what they need are shoes, not videos. Have you ever walked through a community of homeless people passing out cold weather wear and snacks? Do you know how many people die on the streets in winter? Here, hundreds every winter and 65% of homeless people have a chronic mental illness. I have tried to help all I can, including working for a homeless drop-in and giving up to four talks a week to young people in schools and Universities.about mental health awareness. But I don't make videos of myself and squeeze every bit of profit from it. I recognize a need for awareness and assistsnce and I do what I can. I have no problem with Lauren doing so well and succeeding with her channel, her and her husband work hard. I just think when you claim to help people with the illness there are far better ways to do it and though they may not realize it, they could easily do many people harm. Don't pretend to know me or know better than me. I spent years teaching psychiatric hospital patients creative writung.. I developed special classes for inpatients on psychiatruc wards several times. My oldest friend lost her daughter to suicide resulting from schizophrenia. I have written large amounts of newspaper and magazine articles about mental health along with three paperbacks I wrote about mental illness. My work has apoeared in The British Journal of psychiatry and The Stanford Social Innovation review and is in libraries across Canada including The Psychosocial Rehabilitation Library. Though you may not care about what I have to say, I think I have not onky a right but an obligation to call out people who may do harm to the vulnerable and suggestible people who listen to garbage from people like you. I have lived with schizophrenia longer than Lauren has been alive and I keep myself sane by giving service to others who are ill, not by beung paid by a corporation to promote some fad diet. Of course I also take excellent meds and see my psychiatrist often. I wish Lauren no ill will, I totally understand her and her husband have a family to raise, but I reserve my right to speak freely on a public channel. By the way, two comments I made were deleted.today alone. Unfortunately as ut is a pubkic channel I am unable to use descriptive words to tell you what I think of uneducated trolls like yourself.
@benjones1452 let me know how that works out for you
I find it alarming how her followers rudely defend her. And fluff her ego constantly. She has her own keto kingdom and she is the queen! The term "cult of personality" is applicable. And I think it's disgusting how they make RUclips a click bait affiliate business on the backs of those who seriously suffer while living in their luxury cushioned life with complete disregard for the majority and potentially causing people to harm themselves taking all of their advice, looking like medical advisors without a license to practice medicine. You'll notice the counter acting defensive responses come from same voices and yes, I had my comment deleted that said they are making at least $1500k month just on their peer community alone and NAMI (National Institute for Mental Illness) is widely available and free. What genuine peer support community charges a fee to walk thru the door?
And there's nothing in place for accountability. Nothing. Will they change their approach when people come off their meds, go on "keto", fail and kill themselves? Suicide is the number #1 killer of people who have schizophrenia. This lady has a eating disorder on top of a mental illness advising people to go off their meds and go on a diet. Crazy!!!!
Your voice always sounds depressing. Cant watch you no more. Thank you
Agree 1000%.
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