Hi zarlando,
i must say I have never heard of such a fancy diagnosis in my practice, which means 'acting like a wolf'. The fact that you can write on a computer and send messages over the internet does not support the idea that you are a wolf.
However as a description of depression it makes sense, because in depression there are so many forms and subcategories of depression, that 'being a wolf' might as well be included.
Most professionals inventing fancy diagnoses usually have a poor understanding of what they are talking about. By labelling you with a fancy medical term, they hope to suggest that there is a specific treatment for 'lycanthropy' especially of a drug type. The truth is that mainstream medicine and psychology have a poor understanding of what causes depression and therefore cannot see the connection between depression, anxiety attacks or chronic insomnia, ptsd, ocd, and lycanthropy, believing them to have separate pathologies with separate treatments (and different drugs).
The psychonutritional model does away with all this non-sense and looks at the common biochemical features of these different types of mental illnesses. It sees these illnesses as a manifestation of a nutritional disorder that have in common insulin resistance or what is also known as hypoglycemia.
In insulin resistance there is an obstruction in the way a person absorbs and metabolizes the sugars in food. Sugar is the universal source of biological energy that the brain needs to convert one molecule into another, such as the conversion of tryptophan (found in food) into serotonin, our major feel-good neurotransmitters. Thus when we have inadequate amounts of energy the person cannot experience relaxation, happiness, joy and contentment. Thus they are depressed!!
The non-drug treatment for this condition and therefore depression is the adoption of the hypoglycemic diet.
This condition can be medically tested by a special test, described at our web site as:
articles ---> “testing for hypoglycemia...”
thus it turns out to be that depression is a nutritional disorder.
Jurriaan plesman, ba(psych), post grad. Dip. Clin. Nutr.
