Posted by lostforwards on December 5, 2004, at 8:57:19
In reply to assertiveness and meds, posted by jonh kimble on December 5, 2004, at 2:46:24
I might add that people who have something "wrong" with their serotonin system have poor social lives. If your serotonin levels are too low you'll be one of those rejects who are cast aside. On the other hand, you'll have lots of time to ruminate, philosophize, and spend time with yourself. That's if hyperactivity of your frontal lobes can compensate. It could be to your advantage.
That's just a broad generalization that may or may not be technically correct. My basic point is different states of mind have their advantages.
Everybody has their place in my opinion.I think a lot of the times people don't want to live with themsevles. They see all these ideal images on tv. All these happy people making cash and working in high-class jobs. People don't even use the meds for clinical depression or serious anxiety all the time. Life's too fast these days. No room for the eccentrics. Slowly but surely the new eugenics movement is creeping up on us.
Therapy does change the brain. It does it better than drugs too. It actually rewires the brain.
If a certain part of your brain lights up when it's faced with certain situations, therapy can actually change this. In fact I read an article that said depression itself had more to do with wiring then just an imbalance of neurotransmitters. Here a very strong example of how your mind can actually have a huge influence on the brain. There was a study done where buddhist monks were put through a bunch of brain scans. They found that they consistently had higher levels of activity in their left prefrontal lobes. There was also a general increase in activity in the frontal lobes.http://www.crystalinks.com/medbrain.html
- this is a good site for meditations effects on the brain.
http://www.biol.tsukuba.ac.jp/~macer/EJ141/ej141j.htm - I haven't read this yet, but it's on Medication and Brain Function.Everybody's has certain traits that personal experiences, and self-psychological mending can influence. Gradually society's net that's used to catch what's unacceptable is getting bigger and the quick-fix of medications is also being used more and more. GPs are handing SSRIs out like candy. I'm not denying the existance of clinical depression or any severe form of brain dysfunction but I am saying that it's getting easier and easier to get a mental illnesss diagnosis and be given drugs as a solution.
And the drugs do more than fix isolated symptoms. Using your mind will.
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