Posted by Lindenblüte on September 26, 2006, at 8:18:19
In reply to Re: thanks! » Lindenblüte, posted by alexandra_k on September 25, 2006, at 22:23:12
I think PKU is treated as a neurological/general medical condition. The consequences of their metabolic disorder can impact some of the other systems too.
Isn't it funny that the most reliable symptom of my dad's kidneys having a flare-up are confusion and weeping?
Whenever he starts acting all teary and delusional, mom takes him to get his kidneys checked out, and inevitably they are doing a poor job and not filtering out all the crap they need to be filtering out. I'm sure that his entire system would eventually be affected, but it's just that his brain is the most sensitive to fluctuations in whatever...
psychological-neurological-endocrine These are false distinctions. a single cell often plays critical roles in all three "systems". Why shouldn't we expect that talk therapy changes the way the body responds physiologically. Wouldn't it HAVE to, by virtue of changing behavior or thought? (oh... I'll get off my anti-dualist soapbox now)
-Li
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