Posted by SLS on October 19, 2014, at 18:07:54
In reply to Re: PLEASE HELP: Is there some kind of dopamine issue?, posted by Joe Rogan on October 19, 2014, at 17:12:10
> Yeah he is going to test my Vitamin D levels, Tomatheus.
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> But I think it has something to do wih reward system of my brain. I seek instant gratification instead of the reward of accomplishment and hard work. This is evident by uncontrollably eating donuts and drinking soda, drinking caffeinated beverages (coffee), and jerking it. Depressed people think about sex a lot. Also, too much pork and meat but that has improved since taking desipramine. Yeah the doc has me on 750+750 MG of depakote and 15MG of Zypexa at night.That all sounds good to me.
Regarding your drive to seek instant gratification, do you receive it, or do you not experience any reward despite your impulsive behaviors?
If you do not experience reward, despite your drive to seek it, you might be depressed without mania.
If you do experience reward from the drive to impulsively seek appetitive gratification, I would look at the possibility that your mania is not yet under control - with or without depression. People who are manic are too distractable to focus on the accomplishment of tasks that require an investment of time and sustained concentration.
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I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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