Posted by Ritch on December 12, 2002, at 9:46:32
In reply to Re: Apathy/Fear continuum!!! » Ritch, posted by bluedog on December 12, 2002, at 1:08:44
> I remember a visit with a neurologist and his technician and being told something like "you have warm affect, that is good". So does this "warm affect" fall in the middle of A CONTINUUM between APATHY and FEAR? IOW, too much dopamine makes you too fearful, so all you can do is be hypervigilant, and too little makes you apathetic and unreactive and unconcerned with the world around you?
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> Ritch
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> My personal opinion is that you are in fact correct when you speak of this CONTINUUM between apathy and fear.
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> Dr Paul Cheney who is a Chronic Fatigue Syndrome(CFS) specialist refers to this continuum as a line between COMA and SEIZURE. He explains this view in the following article on Klonopin which I have linked to previously. It is a matter of getting the BALANCE between APATHY/FEAR or COMA/SEIZURE just right. Of course the complexities in our brains makes it difficult to achieve this correct balance!!!!
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> Anyway here is the link I was referring to. see http://www.immunesupport.com/library/showarticle.cfm/id/3154/searchtext/klonopin/
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> My views could be completely wrong as it merely represents my personal opinion but I was able to draw an analogy between your post and the information presented in the article that I linked to.
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> regards
> bluedog
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>Hey that's cool. I like analogies. Read the article. I found it interesting about how nerve cells get "killed" that don't stop firing. It is almost like they are like fuses for electric current with *fusible links*. I also like his concept of "Neuroprotection via threshold potentials". Now I wonder about the "shape" of the normal/waking/functional/nontoxic region of that continuum and how that might vary from individual to individual. I suppose it could be possible that a constrained "envelope of normalcy" could be as much a problem as an unstable threshold that varies excessively in absolute terms. I like his concept about taking a very tiny dose (of an anticonvulsant-clonazepam here) should result in improved *clarity* without dulling. I have noticed that if I get too *zingy*, that a 1/4 of a .5mg tab of Klonopin in the daytime has helped me focus when I am under a lot of job stress. Thanks for that link! Food for thought.
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