Judy / Ravana/Milosevic type2

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At 03:31 PM 4/13/99 -0400, you wrote:

>Judy Walden <judyw

>I am in agreement with you that exercise and diet can play a

>significant role in alleviating mood disorders.

 

Only a few mood disorders.

>I may have

>all the terms wrong, biology was never my strong suit, but I

>believe exercise causes the release of norepernephrin (I

>know I have misspelled this) which helps with depressed

>mood.

 

It can also generate panic attacks in those with panic disorder, due to the

release of lactic acid into the bloodstream (the "waste product" of

muscular exertion). Lactic acid often produces panic attacks in those

susceptible to them.

>I have seen people depressed who exercised and were

>nutrition conscious. I would bet though that there is less

>depression among this group.

 

Do you have any direct experience to back up this "bet?"

>What I wonder about is what causes the kind of thinking that

>is associated with psychiatric disorders. You mentioned

>panic disorders and I think even here a genetic

>predisposition may need to be considered. But even without

>this consideration, what causes the kind of thinking which

>leads to a panic attack?

 

I'll tell you. Listen carefully, because the person who is typing here has

had panic disorder since 1988 (and long before that, undiagnosed). The

kind of thinking that causes panic disorder is runaway, circular thinking

that feeds upon itself. For example, one may notice the heart beating too

fast, which causes fear, and the fear causes the heart to beat even faster,

which generates even more fear. Thinking becomes circular, and feeds upon

itself, becoming obsessive. The world shrinks, time slows to a crawl. All

sense of perspective is lost. A "panicky mood" is established (a truly

hellish state, take it from me), which also feeds upon itself, and all

manner of negative emotions may arise, they themselves contributing to the

growing state of anxiety. When the whole process increases to a point

where the "feedback" is too "loud" for the brain to cope with, a panic

attack results, which temporarily "breaks the cycle" of circular, obsessive

thought. The cycle, however, generally resumes again soon afterward.

 

Tim

 

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