Posted by Declan on March 16, 2006, at 14:24:17
In reply to What Kind of Pattern Is This?, posted by blueberry on March 14, 2006, at 19:43:05
Hi Blueberry
I don't have any of the (reliable) mood variations you mention. But I do wake up 2 hours after going to sleep and thereafter have trouble maintaining deep sleep. It is, as you say, as if some stimulatory chemical has jerked me out of deep sleep. The TCM people would say that 2am is the hour when the liver becomes active, so (apparently) if your liver (in the Chinese sense) is impaired some other system, the name of which I forget if I ever knew it, is unable to be controlled. Which propbably amounts to stress hormones. I deal with it best by taking something to settlem me down then. This is absolutely reliable, with or without deprenyl and everything else, although some things make it worse. For more than 10 years now. Is this what they call depression? I thought that was the idea and wasn't impressed by it. It seemed just as likely to be anything. A bad case of what everyone gets with aging anyway? You'd think it would be better understood.
Declan
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