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Lack of pleasure: the cause of all mental illness?

Posted by linkadge on July 25, 2009, at 15:59:48

I was thinking about it and I have a hypothesis, that a lack of pleasure is the cause of all/most mental afflictions. When I say pleasure, I don't mean that selfish crack like hedonic overdrive, I mean the good pleasure (opiates?), where you just want to settle down and enjoy the moment.

For instance,

depression -
obvious

dysphoric mania -
too much drive not enough settle down and feel ok in the moment

anxiety -
too much pain, not enough pleasure (opiates have antianxiety properties)


OCD -
fueled by anxiety

PTSD -
inability to turn off bad memories
increasing pleasure would either diminsh bad memories or put a positive spin on them

euphoric mania -
this one may be the exception. I think this is cause by simultanious high motivation and high pleasure. But, I think if you increased pleasure further, you would counterballance hypermotivation and end the mania (opiates actually have anitmanic effects)

schizophrenia -
another possible exception, opiates do have antischiozphrenic effects in some case studies.
but this may be due to their effects on glumamte metabolism

Note: all the SSRI's and TCA's have opioid like effects. Not that I am necessarily condoning opiates for mental illness.


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