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#1 eon

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Posted 18 June 2015 - 12:17 PM


I'm trying to figure out the biology of fear and mental illness. If it works the way I'm thinking it does, then I hope i'm onto something here. Before I had my anxiety disorder and panic attack, I was always very active and full of adrenaline. I was always at the gym working out, lifitng heavy weights, full of energy, etc. I'm thinking that I may have released too much norepinephrine that it became out of control and won't shut off. Either that or I was predisposed to anxiety due to my "diagnosed" heart defect, mitral valve prolapse. Now regarding my brother's paranoid schizophrenia diagnosis, considering dopamine is linked with schizophrenia and excess of it is the hypothesis of the disorder, he was always highly imaginative when he was a child, he was into magic and fantasy type of hobbies and interest, did some wonderful drawings, etc. He was either predisposed to being schizophrenic or his activity led to him being "schizophrenic" the same way my excess adrenaline release from bodybuilding led to me releasing too much "adrenaline". There seem to be irony surrounding the biology of mental illness. I wonder if people who were always the "happy" child (serotonin releasing types) end up depressed later on in life? It's almost as if one "trains" their brain how to be, it behaves as such, if that makes sense. I was pushing my self in the gym, etc. almost obsessively then later on in life I became OCD, talk about a somewhat paradoxical side effect. These are just my assumptions as to what I think goes on in the biology or pre diagnosis of mental illness before it starts or as it's happening.

 

An interesting article below came up:

 

Uncovering the biology of mental illness

 

http://medicalxpress...al-illness.html

 

 

 


Edited by eon, 18 June 2015 - 12:24 PM.






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