After years of being ok, I again found myself in spiral of bad moods, sleeping all hours of day, feeling useless, brain fog, googling how to leave DH because he deserves better, suicidal thoughts, crying, anxiety and panic attacks. Honeatly, looking back to two weeks ago, it scares me. It sneaked up on me, yet hit me by surprise. Syarted with cold, low moods sneak, but all the "bad thoughts" came up suddenly.
Then I remembered in a moment of some clarity that I didn't take any vitamin D except the one in multivitamins, for some months.
It took 2 days of high dose for most of it to dissappear. Took week to me being back to gym, happy, bouncy, cleaned whole house, could write a novel type of motivation, with no inclination to suicide.
I spoke to a friend and talked about my previous deficiency. I went to a GP and he was amazing. He ordered full blood tests, I guess because I had no previous MH issue history an et voila. Accute vit D deficiency. So agreed to try sorting that before going further and trying anti depressants. Magic.
Friend had similar, but in her case she was told they should app her MH meds and she had to demand blood tests. She still takes medicine for her MH but she also had deficiency and said the supplements helped massively and she isn't having panic attacks anymore.
We ended uptalking about how sometimes, or maybe actually often, there is a lack of a holistic approach and checking not only mental, but also physical state, and vice versa.
It's actually quite fascinating what one deficiency can do.
Aibu to wonder if most people did have blood tests done as part of assessment when they presented with MH issues? From what I gather from people around me it's not always, or even often, done? Should it?
Pleae note, before anyone starts, I am not saying MH issues are just caused by that. I am not an idiot. I am wondering if some issues could be helped bit more by overal body and mind approach, not just one or the other, approach. I hope that makes sense