Unhealthy: How Do You Know?
When you have gotten better or healthy again after being sick, have you ever thought, “I didn’t know how sick I was until now?” That has happened to me many times.
It occurred to me today that, after about nine weeks on the BodyLogicMD bioidentical hormones/nutritional-supplement program, I feel so much better. I didn’t know how unhealthy I was. How depressed I have been.
I know about depression. For one thing, I worked for the National Mental Health Association for eight years and I have an undergrad degree in psychology. My father had bouts of depression, albeit never diagnosed as such, for most of his life after being discharged from World War II. (Now in his 90s, he is in a state of dementia, so awareness of depression isn’t there.) I have often fought mild depression as well.
And my andropause (MANopause) seemed to have magnified it. As I reported before, my cortisol (stress hormone) tests showed I had almost no cortisol by 10:30 a.m. each day! (If I hadn’t been so depressed, I would have been manic about this terrible news.) Low cortisol is often a symptom of MANopause.
Well, today I can tell you I feel beyond that issue. I know how depressed I was, now that I am not depressed anymore.
How about you? How are you feeling? Can you really tell how “sick” you are until you make an effort to do something about it and get better?