Depression

Can enemas alleviate the symptoms of depression? How? Why?

If they could, it is my thought that the psychiatrists of the world would be prescribing a glass of water twice (or 4 times) a day, vs psychotropic medications that alter the brain's chemistry.

My brother is a graduate of the Menninger Foundation after medical school; and, had enemas been a part of his studies 25 years ago, or subsequently, it is my thought that he would have shared that information.

In moderation, the water taken through anus will not harm you. And, most doctors would tell you to drink 32oz of water per day, if not more.

I lay no claim to being a medical practitioner; ssssoooo, my thoughts on the subject are worth about as much as the next glass of water you drink from the tap.

Actually, if that water is from your tap, at home, then you paid for that 8 oz; and, it is worth more than the information that was provided in this post.

Now ~ go out and make it a gr8 day!

I'd have to say that like any other kind of sexual release, it provides a pleasurable distraction. Hard to feel bad as you cum, no?

Seriously, seek out some professional assistance if you're depressed, please. You owe it to yourself, and only have one life. Good luck..

We've been down this road before. About 10% of serotonin/norepenephrin neurotransmitters are in the brain. This is the 10% that Prozac, Effexor, Celexa, etc. are supposed to increase and therefore relieve depression. But about 70% of neurotransmitters are found in the intestine (I think mainly in the large. So, would stimulation of the bowel through irrigation raise neurotransmitter levels even more, causing circulation to caryy them to the brain and effect depression? Try getting people to volunteer for that controlled medical study.

Sometime back, Columbia Hospital NYC tried to do a study on coffee enemas in pancreatic cancer patients. Their results were mixed, incomplete and finally the study was halted, due to patient drop-out. So, unless you're using members of this board for you study population, you're not going to get the compliance you must have to complete the study.

Theoretically, multiple daily irrigations should do something to the neurotransmitters, but what?

Jimmy44 et. al

I believe that you are on the right track. I have read

several papers that support that the colon produces such

neuro-transmitters. I am an engineer and not a medically

educated academic. However, I have been clinically depressed

for most of my life. That depression was first suspected

from the time that I was in college and continues to the

present day. My own experience has been that an enema or

especially a colonic irrigation will stimulate the bowel

and often leave me with a euphoric feeling.

My conclusion therefore is that an enema a day keeps the

head shrinker away.

P.S. Are you an M.D. as your post might indicate?

K2mmw: Not a Doc. I sold pharmaceuticals to Docs for 30 yrs,. including 3 different antidepressants. We had to know more than everyone, save shrinks, about our products & competitors. I learned a great amount of info. about depression & it's treatment to converse with the Docs I called-on. And I learned that most Docs were scared to really push the dose on all antidepressants. This goes back to the days when tricyclics (Elavil, Tofranil) were all we had. A 30 day supply of these products would kill someone bent on suicide. The newer products like Prozac, Sinequan are very safe and shrinks would start their patients at 3 times the maximum recommended dose. I've discussed colon irrigation with a few psychs. I came to trust and they confirmed that theorhetitically, it should work, but just try getting a patient to be compliant with that. We must realize that we are a very small portion of the population. In the old days a prep. for colonoscopy took you to the hosp. 3 days before the event where they controlled what you consumed orally and did enemas 'til clear. When insurance cos. put the nix on that, it became apparant that most patients might do one enema, but that was it. That's when products like Golytely and it's brothers came out. So here we are. The vast majority of patients hate enemas or anything anal.

In Euorpe, patients go to a hosp. and get a nasogastric tube put down them hooked to an elevated bag of a P.E.G. solution drip and are flushed-out from above as a prep. WE would prefer the multiple enemas, but we are a rare breed. They don't even do enemas as a prep, for BaE's anymore. usually. You get oral bowel flushings and 1-2 Dulcolax suppos. now. Even gastroenterologists only prescribe 2-4 oz. hydrocortsone enemas for ulcerative colitis and anything else is usually Mag. Citrate by mouth for a clean out. Things have changed a lot in 50 yrs. That's why you don't see many flat rubbergoods in pharmacies anymore, just rows of Fleets and generics. Docs have relagated old fashioned enemas to the same category as blood-letting and leeches. We're a dying breed, with some who make it part of the anal-sex scene.

Oh just give me my happy pill(citalopram) and let me carry on!If an enema or a vibrator makes me happier so be it!lol.

This is interesting! Is there a connection between the bowel and the brain? Pleasure and pathology? Is our enema fetish associated with depression or anxiety disorders or obsessive-compulsive disorders? Maybe a poll of our community might be enlightening: Have you been treated for depression.....anxiety disorder.....OCD? Jimmy, how can you give Prozac in a "safe drug" rating?

There is a connection between the brain and the colon. It's

called the blood stream. That is why so many brains are full of

S**T! I was talking to one of them today who was working for

"Customer Service" at a cell company. It took her an hour and

a half on the phone. Her supervisor took ten minutes to solve

my problem. It was easy to determine which woman took the

enemas for a clean mind and which one needed one.

Back to the discussion of mind and the colon. There is some

evidence that stimulation of the colon, especially with a 3H

enema, can release endorphins in the brain. I believe that

everyone who ever had an enema has experienced the light,

euphoria afterward. Be glad you have a colon because it

is more than a garbage dump. It can keep you healthy both

in body and mind.

Had to chuckle at your "customer Service Rep" phone conversation k2mmw. A couple days ago, I phoned a local hand specialists office and asked the receptionist if they did a particualr type of hand surgery. She said she didn't know, but asked if could hold, and she would check. After about a 10 minute wait, she finally came back, apologized for my wait, and said: "Now what is wrong with your foot?" CLICK!(me) I think that's what is nomorally referred to as "shit for brains", and don't think even a good enema would have helped her.

An experience like that can only CAUSE but can never cure

it. I expect that we will be seeing more of this as the bent

of our socialistic (Democratic?) government works to make

these "enema challenged" i.e. those who don't use them and

allow shit to enter their blood stream, to take over non

productive management and middle management jobs.

These are the ones who will be knocking on your door at

midnight in the near future wearing "Enema Police" badges.

They are sanctioned by the cabinet level Department of

"Bomma Care." They will want to confiscate your your enema

bag so your brain will be overloaded with shit like them.

In this way they can hasten your demise, which the department

wants from all retirees, since you cost too much and are

no longer contributory.

I would gladly surrender my enema bag to the Enema Police.

However, that would be only on the condition that I could be

assured that it would be given to one of these "Shit Heads"

to cure this "Shit For Brains" disease before it becomes

a pandemic. At the same time, under those conditions,

I believe that the police will have to confiscate my bag

since the pandemic is already underway.

To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, God must love the common man

because he made so many of them. My "Customer Service Rep."

is only one of the multitude.

P.S.

I grew up on a no bull dairy farm. My dad would occasionally

have a cow come into estrus. When that happened, he would call

the artificial inseminater to have the cow serviced. Ever since

those days of my youth, when I hear the the word service, I

wonder who is getting SCREWED!

Be well and maintain your health with enemas.

Remember, an enema a day keeps the doctor away.

I've had serious depression off and on for most of my life. I've found that being given a soapy enema with cool water can help. For me it takes a lot of effort to take an uncomfortable, crampy and hard to hold enema. Being given an enema is also still rather embarrassing for me especially if I'm having a hard time with it.

All together this helps ease the depression for a while. Actually I think it gets the endorphins going and that's what helps. Actually I get the same result from a long hard spanking. The hard part with depression is convincing yourself anything will help.

As I read these posts that are on here about depression I have to say that I will have a horrendous day and the depression builds up and the anxiety pushes and I can wait to just get home to relax.

I get home and sit down to unwind a bit with a little meditation and the go for a seasion of about 3 enemas.

I am the in a great place and feeling so relaxed and I can rest better then get On to the net and talk with you folks awhile as well as play farmville LOL

I suffer from depression and started sever depression after being in Iraq but the meds help and an enema really takes the edge off so yes I would think it helps

In turn from what I am have been seeing more often then not; that what helps quite often with depression is the time of being at peace and the relaxation of it all does all the trick. Being military with my rate being one that has a very high stress level; and dealing with depression coupled with the high stress level. The effect of the relaxation, forces your mind to forget about everything else; helps in more ways then not.

in my case; more often then not I am forced to find different ways to help myself. As normal practice is, if you are suffering with depression; they'd will just give you some medications to deal with that. But for my rate; I am not allowed to take nearly all types of medications.