Introducing, Brittany Goff, MSW, LYME COUNSELING in my office, appointments available,
Call: 240-702-0138. Brittany is a former
Lyme patient, fully in remission. We did Monster’s Inside Me several years ago
together. She knows what its like to have Lyme and coinfections.
We are working together on patients with Lyme brain
syndromes. Patients may have a variety
of manifestations. These include:
inflammatory encephalopathy, autoimmune syndromes, neurotransmitter
imbalances, specific neurological syndromes (stroke-like, MS-like) and of
course neuropsychiatric manifestations.
Chronic
disseminated Lyme: a neuropsychiatric illness,
Things we commonly encounter AND TREAT:
Anxiety, Panic,
ADD-like symptoms, mood swings, depression, OCD. Others.
Can be caused by any and all tickborne syndromes,
Sudden or acute onset
of OCD symptoms, anxiety or TICS, following infection, classically with Strep,
but also with Lyme, Bartonella and others,
You may have PANDAS or PANS, primarily in children, but also
in adults,
Confusion, disorientation,
brain fog, can’t find words, feels like Alzheimer’s,
Caused by Lyme encephalopathy, general Lyme associated brain
dysfunction,
Severe anxiety,
May be due to imbalance of neurotransmitter, GABA,
Newly acquired ADD,
attention deficit syndrome,
May be due to imbalance of neurotransmitter dopamine,
frontal lobe dysfunction, executive dysfunction,
Head pressure, symptoms
too weird to put into words, depersonalization, sense of unreality,
May go along with primary autoimmune encephalitis,
Depression, sudden
unexplained bouts of crying,
Frequently seen with cerebral babesiosis,
Severe irritability,
anxiety, anger, rage, “Lyme rage”
Frequently caused by cerebral bartonellosis (Bartonella infection),
Behavioral and psychological
symptoms associated with stroke-like or MS-like, physical symptoms,
Commonly seen with all the above,
Social isolation and
alienation, loss of family and friends, no energy to go out with friends or
family, unable to plan ahead,
Lyme disease and all its trappings,
Sometimes commonly used drugs, like antidepressants, make things worse because Lyme brains are wired differently. We may have some insights.
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