Posted by stjames on November 2, 2003, at 23:33:25
In reply to Re: Panic Attacks suddenly Ceasing! , posted by Charlotte Sometimes on November 2, 2003, at 21:52:22
> >
> > You do not accumulate serotonin but your other
> > ideas do make a lot on sense.
> >
> I thought that might be the case! I was reading a monash university (Australia) study that said a pilot study they did showed people with panic disorder had elevated levels of serotonin in the brain and when at rest released adrenalin from the cardiac nerves of the heart.
> So I thought taking the zoloft may have just aggravated an already high level of serotonin?!
>We really have very little infomation on what a normal level is or how X level translates to whatever illness. Blood levels are not meanful,
generally levels speak of CSF, spinal fluid.
However, all the meds work at a much smaller site
so CSF levels don't measure what is happening at the clef.In any case, while levels (I prefer regulation)
do have something to do with mental illness, these changes are in the middle of the process that is mental illness. Since we know AD's correct or change NT levels at the clef but only control
mental illness in less than half the people treated, clearly AD's don't hit at the cause of mental illness. If they did they would work for most everybody.To put it another way, mental illness, endrocrine
disfuntion, and others (present with most mentally ill) are all symptoms of a greater, root disorder
which causes everything else.
poster:stjames
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