Posted by sdb on May 21, 2005, at 13:00:05
In reply to Benzodiazepines - Destruction of brain- chemist, posted by sdb on May 21, 2005, at 11:35:03
As I said my grandmother has absolutely no retro- or anterograde memory problems and she is very good in calculating and playing cards. In contrast her new (six years together) younger med free friend seems to develop some dementia.
I dont know the dosage she takes since 30 years (she dont like to talk about it) but it seems to be oxazepam retard formulation originally prescribed for sleep problems. But I am not sure about that. Perhaps she takes it to cure another problem. She also seems to have bipolar tendencies, perhaps diminished by the oxazepam.
My father has bp also but with aggressive tendencies in bad phases and neurotical behaviour (all things must be done perfect, all windows and doors closed or open). On the other hand he can be minor manic or normal. Only after years I was aware what was in the father's family (mother lovely, understanding and "normal"). My father refuses to take any medication and going to a pdoc, perhaps of the following awareness that he really has some deficits. As a child I was sometimes guilty anyway for nothing, when he had bad phases. He has hit me sometimes pretty hard or smashing my self-earned bicycle six meters away because it was not at the right place in the car garage. I dont seem to have these aggressive tendencies, but I am somehow afraid I could harm somebody later.
But it is clear for me that my father is not guilty because he seems to have some problems in the brain and I can forgive him because of thinking rational (which sometimes is difficult, bad things coming up from memory -> take one small glass of wine in the evening sometimes). Probably it is hereditary, I dont know. Research is needed.
Guiltiness is anyway in question (does somebody have a free will?) what brain researchers say.
I personally think its better for mankind trying to think more rational and logical and putting emotions more in the background. Of course not completely! Somehow some sapients seem to be swamped with the fast devolopment. Brain and genes are not adapting in same the speed.Emotions are often a problem for mankind e.g. politicians saying "we want all things better for you" but instead people are dying and are foltered brutally. But even violence and war could be a natural mechanism of regulation (dependent of our roots) but not effective enough yet to diminish overpopulation.
Regards
sdb
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