Helping a patient recover from mental illness without drugs: Sarah Murphy, LPC, NCC • Aug 21, 2023

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Helping a patient recover from mental illness without drugs: Sarah Murphy, LPC, NCC • Aug 21, 2023

Alice Lee, MD, is a holistic psychiatrist who uses energy psychology to help patients recover from mental illness without drugs. At the 25th ACEP International Energy Psychology Conference, she shared a detailed case report of a patient who was weaned from six different psychotropic medications as she healed from her bipolar disorder diagnosis. It’s a fascinating story and one we thought you should know!

Background

The patient was 60 years old when she began treatment with Alice. Before her mental health problems arose, she had had a successful, albeit stressful career. In 2009, she was diagnosed with breast cancer, which she successfully treated with conventional and holistic methods. In 2017, her daughter became ill. The combined stress of her job and her daughter’s illness became too much.

She began intensive therapy with a conventional clinician, whom she saw for six months with little relief. Finally, she decided to try an antidepressant. Weeks later, she attempted suicide by overdosing on the new medications.

For almost two years, she cycled in and out of inpatient hospitalizations and residential treatment programs. She ended up taking six medications: two antidepressants, a beta blocker for anxiety, an antipsychotic, an anticonvulsant, and a benzodiazepine.

A holistic approach: recover from mental illness without drugs.

After nearly three years of standard psychiatric treatment, the patient sought a holistic approach, and found Alice Lee. Alice uses energy psychology and CBET, criteria-based energy testing, to guide her treatment approach. CBET uses applied kinesiology or muscle testing to gather true-false statements. Alice uses the thumb-and-index finger method of testing. Because muscle testing is sensitive to energy, it was important for Alice to remain neutral during her work.

Diagnosis

The patient had been diagnosed with a number of disorders and had landed with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder with psychotic features. However, she had never experienced a manic episode. Alice switched the diagnosis to panic disorder. This gentler diagnosis itself may have helped initiate the healing.

Prognosis

The patient and Alice worked together for a year. At the end of treatment, the patient was doing well. Two years later, she continues to do well. Her prognosis, Alice reports, is excellent.

Treatment

Alice used the Infinite Intention Technique, a type of energy psychology. CBET guided the work. The patient also used various supplements, psychotherapy, and tapered off her medications.

Recovery pattern

At the outset of the holistic psychiatric treatment, the patient and doctor worked together to support and begin healing without changing medications. In the next phase they began gradually reducing medications, guided by CBET. The patient regularly experienced a slight uptick of medication side effects about two days before a follow-up session. After the medications were decreased, the symptoms would subside.

Outcomes

After a year of collaboration and gradual withdrawal from the medications, along with adherence to the supplement and self-care regimen, the patient had successfully stopped all medication. She reported better energy and maintained her positive energy and wellbeing for more than six months of follow-up.

A new direction?

Patients and clients are increasingly seeking alternatives to standard pharmaceutical interventions for their mental health issues. They want to recover from mental illness without drugs. There are good reasons for this: the cost, side effects, problems with withdrawal, and of course, the inability of pills to resolve the underlying causes of these problems. Energy psychology is a growing field of cutting-edge interventions that help people heal. As more people learn about the problems of standardized care and the potential energy psychology, more people will receive the kind of help that really helps.

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Author

Sarah Murphy, LPC, NCC, is a licensed and nationally certified professional counselor. She specializes in energy psychology, including EFT, as well as mindfulness and meditation. Sarah works with people who have cancer or other serious medical diagnoses, individuals seeking to find peace within themselves, and couples who want to resolve conflict and live in harmony. Sarah is an ACEP Board member and chair of its communications committee; she has a private practice and serves as a counseling provider for Unite for HER

Chap. Dr. Richard Ward is a priest-therapist and Board-Certified American Academy of Clinical Hypnoanalysts who works with Law Enforcement, Correctional Officers, and Locals to help them find clarity, balance, and ease with their emotions and the passions which are the emotions that control you. Passions are the emotional forces that dominate your soul and are etched into your brain and its neural structure, programing your automatic responses. They need to be rooted out or overlaid with new programs. You can assume that some of this programing is hereditary. This means this task is not a simple one. It requires God's help along with your own committed effort.

About 80% of all diseases have no known medical cure. They are psychosomatic, including both psychological and biological diseases. If this is the diagnosis, then try deliverance to rid the person of evil spirits. We know that deliverance from demonic bondage often cures medical or mental problems that have "no known medical cure" in the literature. The person has a spiritual root to the disease or ailment which must be dealt with before the person can be healed.

Board-Certified Clinical Hypnoanalysis: Provides valuable insight regarding the origin of destructive thought patterns and behavior. It takes courage to seek help and to work with the difficult emotions and passions that sometimes surface in therapy. Patients appreciate the insights gained when troubling issues are resolved at their core.

Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives. Call: Chap. Dr. Richard Ward, priest-therapist, 916-812-9706 or go to: www.DrRichardWard.com.

Ref: Dr. Jean-Clande Larchet, Ref: Pastor Henry Wright, Ref: Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica.

St. John’s Management Group AOCCA: A Therapeutic Orthodox Catholic Chaplaincy.

Members: The International Conference of Police Chaplains, The American Academy of Clinical Hypnoanalysts, Orthodox Christian Association of Medicine, Psychology, and Religion, Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology. American Metaphysical Doctors Association (AMDA), The Christian Legal Society (CLS).