Posted by floatingbridge on June 5, 2011, at 2:27:17
In reply to Re: don't change your life - change your drug, posted by sigismund on June 4, 2011, at 23:47:24
> I don't know anything about that test Scott spoke of to determine the difference between psychogenic and biogenic.
Do you mean iit exists? I can only imagine genetic markers. Like the suspicion that add and BP share a genetic arm (if that's even a term.) My knowledge just falls off a cliff here.
I did read that a fairly common med, geez, darn I can look it up, like tetregol can cause a severe, even fatal type of neural necrosis. There is a simple genetic test to assess one's risk. In Taiwan, this test is required by law before prescribing. The US continues to dispense knowing this test was available.
Someone reccommended that I be given a genetic test to let me know whether I would even respond to ssri/snri's. That way I wouldn't need to endure rounds of trials of a common class AD. But I already have. My memory is so poor, but it was posted in a thread called tardive dyskenisa. I probably missed all
the flaws in the study. Even in my glory days, I never did think that way. I should read it again.
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> It does make sense to me though (but
again, this may not be the point) that something can start off psychogenic and
end up very much biological.
>I feel like living proof of the above. That
is why ptsd research interests me. What does make a person vulnerable?
Certainly not simply events themselves.> But perhaps I am confusing severity with biology, which is how doctors often
see it, IME.I don't know. Maybe so. Maybe I am, too. I sense a diffetence, sometimes, that some illnesses seem more 'hardwired'. If that can be tested for, than a person's treatment can be swifter, preventing further suffering and even trauma around treatment.
I don't know why things got so bad for me at one point. I suppose it is
something like Violette said, a certain dissonance becaume too great. It
certainly became very biological. I lost control. Like something you wrote about a depression dx being losing meaning. Whatever happened, I have never fully
come back.Then again biogenic mental illnesses, BP
and schizophrenia are in my family. I also endured insomnia as a child, but not necessarily from the hypervigalence
prompted by abuse. Is a controlversial illlness such as borderline disorder at all biogenic? If so, what percentage of an illness is biogenic?If a test is found, would one treat a biogenic illness before it presented? And how? This maybeva poor analogy, but their is the test to assess the risk of
breast cancer. I know a woman who had prophylactic mastectomies when she
received her results.There is genetics and there is expression, if I am using the term properly.
Apologies for the typos.
* and whoever gazes at the stars will never again be quite alone...
c-ptsd & attendant health concerns
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