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🗓️ 9 May 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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In this episode, I interview filmmaker and advocate Lindsey Keys about how Lyme disease affects mental health, it's symptoms, and how to manage it. Chronic Lyme disease is still not recognized by many doctors, even though many people around the globe are suffering, which is why Lindsey refers to it as the “quiet epidemic”.
Watch Lindsey's documentary here: https://www.thequietepidemic.com
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0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Caroline Leaf and welcome to my podcast Cleaning Up the Mental Meth. |
0:10.0 | Dealing with any chronic illness is going to have a mental toll and Lyme disease |
0:15.3 | which has physical mental and neurological symptoms is high on this list made so much |
0:20.8 | more difficult because society still does not give the threat of chronic Lyme and other tick-borne illnesses |
0:26.2 | the recognition, treatment, funding for research or health care coverage it so desperately needs. |
0:35.2 | Today on the podcast I talk to Lindsay Keys to discuss living with chronic Lyme disease and also to shed light on the mental |
0:39.3 | health toll that Lyme disease has. We discuss her story, what Lyme is, how to identify and treat it, |
0:45.5 | and her documentary that she's taking before Congress to give voice and platform to the need for |
0:50.0 | research and better health care in terms of Lyme disease. |
0:53.4 | Let's dive right in. |
0:54.8 | Well, everyone, I'm so pleased to have Lindsay Keys with me today and we're going to be talking about a really serious |
1:03.9 | topic that just does not get enough attention. It's something that's really close to my heart. |
1:08.6 | We're going to be talking about Lyme disease, what it is, how it's so underfunded, under research badly handled by the medical |
1:15.2 | system. |
1:16.2 | And it's very close to my heart because when I was only eight years old, I had tick bite |
1:20.3 | by fever, they called it tick bite for you then and I was sick for weeks and months. |
1:24.8 | And one of my children has been battling with it for years, one of my nephews, and just to try and get |
1:30.9 | treatment and the thousands of dollars, Lindsay, that we've had to spend |
1:35.0 | outside of the insurance system to just get it identified and treated is crazy. |
1:41.1 | So welcome Lindsay, I'm very, very excited to talk to you and hear your story and talk about the |
1:45.6 | mental health aspects of Lyme disease because there are plenty serious ones including things |
1:50.9 | like suicidal thoughts and so on. So welcome today to |
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