Posted by SLS on January 14, 2009, at 13:56:58
In reply to Re: How much do we really know to say that we know? » SLS, posted by Garnet71 on January 14, 2009, at 12:42:04
> I have another perspective.
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> So--If I won a million dollars right now, my condition would improve greatly.If your condition is reactive to external events, you are fortunate. Mine never was.
> Does that mean a million dollars is a cure to my psychiatric problems?
What type of psychiatric problems, specifically?
> The elevated dopamine effect of winning a million dollars
You see, here is an example of what I was trying to explain. I know I am being imputent, but how do you know that there is an elevated dopamine effect from winning a million dollars?
> would eventually disappear--
Sort of like extinction?
These are some huge mental leaps we are taking, such that I know I am without the knowledge or insight to justify. I just don't think we can relegate human experience to a single variable (levels) of a single substance (dopamine). In my way of thinking, it is too simplistic to be plausible when one looks at the sophistication of the brain and its interrelated processes.
> but the effects of SSRIs also disappear for many of us.
Yup. Anything like extinction?
> If I were to have sex right now, same thing. So since sex offers relief,
It never affected one bit my level of depression - even momentarily. Two different things in my experience.
> should it be prescribed?
Hell yes!
Do you know how sex works to be able to compare it to SSRI poop-out? Dopamine? Really? NE? ACh? Autonomic reciprication? It really is interesting. ACh gets you hot, NE gets you off. DA makes you want more.
That's too simplistic, but I don't know much more than that.Gosh. This can be taken as so insulting, and I don't mean it to be. I just think it is good every now and then to admit our own ignorance - that is, of course, should we have any? If one is ignorant of their ignorance, does that make them wrong? :-)
- Scott
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