Posted by cumulative on September 29, 2007, at 1:44:15
In reply to Re: I seek permanent hypomania., posted by linkadge on September 28, 2007, at 23:14:05
>No doctor would implant an electrode directly into your Neucleus accumbens
In the electrical stimulation experiments, many patients became euphoric and they turned it down, or moved the device. Too bad. I would just lie to the researchers. I recognize that this effect would probably develop tolerance or other issues, though.
>It is the nature of human to believe he can achieve perpetual happiness, but your brain would never let you get there as then nothing else would matter.
Hypomania, in my experience, is not an experience of "nothing else mattering" but it is in fact intensely productive and intellectually useful. It may not be great for evolution on a wide scale (although the genes stick around) and that's why the ability to be constantly euphoric has apparently been selected against with feedback mechanisms ... but see, what's good for evolution isn't necessarily what's good for the individual -- otherwise women would take sperm pills instead of birth control pills.
>I don't believe the perpetual hypomanic individual does truely exist.
Why not? It's a spectrum. Frankly there are plenty of individuals who are constantly euphoric. This has actually been somewhat researched. Look up the hyperthymic temperament. A very few people rarely, if ever, come down.
You should know that my post was somewhat in jest and I don't feel this way entirely. I would probably best like to be able to summon the state at will, instead of "constantly" hypomanic.
>You need to seek to do whats right and healthy for you.
I'm not basing it on what I see in others, I'm basing it on my own experiences with drug-induced hypomania.
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