Posted by munificentexegete on February 16, 2007, at 17:26:24
In reply to Re: waaaahh :( Rozerem made me loopy! » munificentexegete, posted by Llurpsie_Noodle on February 16, 2007, at 9:37:27
> I think of my brain as a globe with a lot of political strife. Sometimes we can stop the war (the bad thoughts, feelings, etc) by cutting all communications. These are very crude crude tools.
I like that metaphor, i think it probably sums up your problems precisely. So your problem is bad thoughts. Have you always had them, did they start at a point in your life?I imagine that depression and bad thoughts go hand in hand. I think a doctor needs to give lurpsie noodle's feel good system a proper check.
Have you had you had your levels of serotonin and dopamine measured (ask for a catcholamines urine test, should be almost free)? Also the operation of your receptors can be analysed with MRI or PET scans? I think you would need to see a neurologist for those sorts of tests and they could be expensive, but good health is priceless.
> My pdoc would agree that the current theories are insufficient to explain my overall psychiatric condition in terms that would satisfy a physicist, a chemist or even a biologist.
I think they have a much greater array of medical investigative scans and tests than most people are lead to believe. Most doctors prescribe psychotropics without even doing a single test after a five mintute consultation based on "feel" rather than science.
If they can find out exactly what is wrong with you I think they can target the medication if you need any, or therapy. Even finding out that nothing is wrong with you and that the feelings are normal and could be a result of environment and personal contact with certain types of people. Whenever I feel those sorts of feelings it usually means I am around some bad people, and so it is a warning to me, like pressure on your hand if someone squeezes it too tightly, its uncomfortable. So those thoughts and feelings could well be like an early warning radar system. If you shut your brain down then it can be like shutting your pain system down, and then you don't get alerted to a dangerous situation or people. without pain, you would hold your hand on a boiling kettle until your flesh melts.
> I already felt plenty sick (mentally & physically) when I started seeing him. Since then, I've been feeling like myself for many many days in a row. He reminds me to hang in there when we are changing meds and that these feelings and symptoms are probably going to pass. I also try to remind myself of why I'm taking the drugs in the first place (so that I won't want to die) and why I continue to take them (so that I can have the mental stability to do the difficult task of dissertating and living a "normal" life). Sometimes it's hard to think of those things though when I'm in the midst of the 10th hour of panic and the 2nd week of horrible insomnia...
I am sure that you won't die from naturally occuring bad thoughts, however, if lurpsie's feel good system is physically damaged or operating in an abnormal manner, then you might need some sort of targetted medical intervention for a short or a long time depending on the persistence of the problem.
the other thing is that if you don't have a problem with your dopamine or serotonin systems, taking medications that effect them introduces more instability to your system.
many people find they get suicidal and homicidal thoughts from medications such as ADs and APs, so medicating could actually make your situation a whole lot worse.
enjoy yourself lurpsie!
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