Posted by Jay on August 31, 2006, at 0:38:53
In reply to When your depressed are nuerons not flowing?, posted by rjlockhart on August 30, 2006, at 21:53:24
> Something with all of them, im talking dopamine, serotoinin, endorphins. Are they just being slow or not flowing right?
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> Are they being, not just as much there should be in the nerve synapse.
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> I wake up sometimes depressed. On my days off.
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> WHats you opinion?
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> MattI think it is close, but also beyond that Matt. I am far from being an expert on this stuff, but it seems blood flow in your brain really plays some role. Of course this includes the neurochemicals you talked about, but it seems everybody has a "balance" between these (I don't mean that old silly explanation like "You don't have ENOUGH serotonin, or whatever..), which work together. Like, I have heard that, for example, over-sleeping maybe causes lowered dopamine. Hence, that's why we don't sleep 15 hours a day to feel "great".(And possibly why we feel crappy from oversleeping.) Also, exposure to light lowers melatonin levels. So, much is still up in the air, and I think we are still at the primitive levels about all this stuff. It would be nice if we had a "breakthrough".
Jay
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