Posted by Dinah on August 22, 2008, at 9:00:12
In doing some research on vasomotor rhinitis, I discovered a link to a number of other health problems I have, and to anxiety and depression, in that all have something to do with the autonomic nervous system, acetylcholine, or some articles suggest a lack of balance between the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems.
Which made me start wondering about the link to this possible underlying biological problem that may also affect my mental health, and my reactions to various types of medications. For example, my bad reaction to NE containing drugs and my good reaction to the antipsychotics as major tranquilizers.
While I know other people have totally different reactions to NE and AP's.
I was wondering if we could do some informal sort of survey to come up with an excel schedule or database, and try to figure out some correlations ourselves. I think most of us complain that doctors treat us as if anxiety or depression were a single entity rather than an expression of what could be any number of problems. They've broken down headaches by type and cause. Why couldn't we try to figure out some real life breakdown of depression and anxiety, by compiling our own experiences? Clearly, we're too small a sample size to have any major scientific value. But mightn't it be interesting? I think Dr. Bob is thinking about profiles, but until he starts them, maybe we could just post on a single thread some things about the qualities of our anxiety or depression, what medications work or don't work for us, and physical conditions that could conceivably be related?
I'm no good at the science, and my eyes glaze over if I try to figure out about receptors, or what neurochemicals affect other neurochemicals. But I'm not bad at compiling data, or manipulating it.
poster:Dinah
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