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KST A to Z

Depression and mania

Rick Schwartz, DC

Eugene, Oregon

This patient has a history of periodic episodes of severe psychological instability resembling a nervous breakdown with rapidly cycling mania and depression (bipolar disorder). She came in with her husband.

The first visit involved cranial work, panic pattern and a neurotransmitter pattern with low GABA, but most interesting was when 'despair' came up on the emotion chart. When I said the word, she nearly keeled over and screamed and cried loudly for several minutes. I adjusted bilateral sphenoids, inferior occiput and C5, then let her process, with her husband holding her.

By the time they left, she was calmer and smiling. Over the following weeks, further emotional concepts surfaced and released: 'dominating,' 'fight,' and 'abused.' A SPECT scan later confirmed clear evidence of past traumatic brain injury, matching what KST had already found. Two and a half years later she has not had a return of the inner chaos and appreciates the benefits of KST.

                            

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