Posted by garnet71 on May 25, 2009, at 14:23:25
In reply to Re: Am I bipolar? Someone please....advice » garnet71, posted by desolationrower on May 24, 2009, at 20:21:49
Hey-how did you post this when the thread was closed???? You must have been bored!
I glanced through those documents--some real interesting stuff there and just the sort of thing I wanted to read.
Have been suspected the schitozphrenia gene has somethign to do with my chemistry. Like I have the gene, but not the gene that 'turns it on', though have also been thinking my grandmother who was diagnosed w/schitophrenia many years ago really had BP, after reading how mania can be mixed up...and because her med regime didn't work during the early years, but somehow she had no mental health issues for decades more recently; thinking maybe she was misdiagnosed. How did you know to find that article?
I think the anxiety is totally unrelated; it think it is from growing up in fear/fight-flight/PTSD/and chronic stress, along with the genetic predisposition.
In addition to the endocrine issues, now if I can just work this in, somehow link this to the fact SSRIs have somehow fried my dopamine receptors or something related, maybe have some kind of theory. Maybe this only happens to people with predisposed dopamine issues.
Or it could have something to do with this:
"In schizophrenics, a prolonged decrease in prefrontal cortical activity is proposed to reduce tonic dopamine release. Over time, this would elicit homeostatic compensations that would increase overall dopamine responsivity and thereby cause subsequent phasic dopamine release to elicit abnormally large responses."
Don't know when I'll be able to sort through it all with anxiety attacks. I stayed up all night, this is horrible. I did manage to read about accounting for over 4 hrs. last night, suprised myself. Now too tired to do anything at all. Took extra buspirone, Kava so far. I wish I hadn't thrown away all my zoloft, prozac, etc. I only have wellbutrin around the house now.
I hope you are having a nice weekend with your family. Thanks for all your help. : )
- Garnet
ps love the eye dialation graph - my favorite topic lol
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