Three Buzzing Conditions

The “three buzzing conditions” are epilepsy, bipolar disorder and migraine.The mainstream medical explanation for both epilepsy and migraine involve convulsions (seizures) triggered by abnormal electrical activity in the brain. In the case of bipolar disorder, the convulsive hypothesis has never been demonstrated to the (fortunately) high scientific standards of the biological psychiatry community, and there is actually a new field of exploration centering around neurotransmitters.

I’m not impartial. General hand-waving about neurotransmitters tends to irk me, as big pharma marketing has jeopardized the public image of biological psychiatry with oversimplified and sometimes flat out false theories like the “chemical imbalance” explanation for major depression. Actually, psychiatrists have known for a while that major depression results from neuron atrophy in the emotional center of the brain; while SSRIs make your brain marinate on serotonin, it’s not until they have been on your system for long enough to stimulate neuron regrowth that relief is felt.

Also, I am bipolar. I feel that bipolar disorder being closely related to epilepsy would erase much of the stigma. Some forms of epilepsy can trigger mood episodes, psychotic symptoms like hallucinations, derealization anddepersonalization crises and even automatisms, but those don’t get all the press that more common forms of epilepsy most characterized by tonic-clonic seizures do. Actually, from my symptoms the diagnosis of temporal lobe epilepsy was briefly considered, though EEG readings didn’t show anything.

Breadcrumb trails:

Ala, Algorithm, Anticonvulsant, Anticonvulsants, Antidepressant, Antidepressant Effect, Antipsychotic, Antipsychotics, Anxiety, API, autism, Benzodiazepines, Benzos, Bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, Brain, Briefly, Bupropion, Clonazepam, Cocktail, Crazy Meds, Depakote, Depersonalization, depression, derealization, Diagnosis, Dp, drugs, dysphoric mania, econometrics, free time, Hell, Internet, Jerod, Job, Klonopin, Lamictal, Lamotrigine, Lithium, Mac, Mainstream, Manias, Marketing, Meds, Money, Nome, Norm, Nos, Ontologies, Paranoia, Population, Porta, Profiles, Prova, Psychiatrist, Psychiatrists, Psychiatry, Pus, Risperidone, Ritalin, Schizophrenia, Science, Seroque, Seroquel, SMS, Spite, statistics, Stigma, Tempo, Topamax, Unease, Zen, Zing

Retconning, scrubbing, etc.

This is one of a few posts that will only be seen by RSS subscribers until the IOC Olympiad is over. I’ll use the downtime to do some retconning and scrubbing. For one, I’ll be replacing all occurrences of blog blog journal to blog journal . The (very important) differences will be elaborated in an essay to come. Blogging is dead and its rotting corpse is disturbing the party.

The hardcore can still find the blog journal homepage at http://dayvancowboy.org/index.php. Some changes will be gradually made. But really, I encourage spending time at The China Debate. That’s the reason why I temporarily shut off the home page, as you can see effective during the IOC Olympiad (I’m stressing this because I do not maintain the position that the IOC representes the olympic spirit in any way, so these aren’t “The Olympic Games” in any meaningful way) and instead redirecting to the Amnesty International site on China.

The home page will be back as soon as the IOC Olympiad flame is shut off.

Breadcrumb trails:

Amnesty International, Blog, Blogging, China, Downtime, Essay, Hardcore, Hp, Olympic, Olympic Games, Porta, Tempo

Would

IF YOU PLAN ON WATCHING THE OLYMPICS

(There are photographs I couldn’t bring myself to post because I just can’t look at them once again. I’m still shaking and shivering from having had a glimpse of a woman whose left breast is completely trashed out from electric torture — the right breast is blurred away, probably from being even more shocking. There’s a link at the end of this post that you must look at if you’re going to watch the olympics and rooting for your nationals. It’s a flash slideshow with pictures I can’t bear to think about again, let alone describe into mere words. These are just the soft ones.)

href=”http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/ASA17/089/2008/en/824a9d66-5724-11dd-90eb-ff4596860802/asa170892008eng.html”>The olympic principle is betrayed by China’s broken promises.

Shortly after awarding the Games to Beijing in 2001, Jacques Rogge, President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) publicly stated his expectation that hosting the Olympics would improve China’s human rights record, adding that the IOC would act if human rights were not acted upon to their satisfaction.⁶Since then, the IOC has continued to maintain the public line that China is making progress on human rights.⁷On 23 March 2008, Jacques Rogge issued a statement reaffirming that the Olympic Games are a ‘force for good⁸

Breadcrumb trails:

Absolute, abusive systems, America, Amnesty International, API, Arte, Beijing, Beijing police, Briefly, Chang'an Avenue, Chengdu, China, Chinese Torture, earthquake, economics, Expectation, Heck, Hein Vebruggen, Hp, HTML, Images, International Olympic Committee, IOC's Coordination Commission for Beijing, Iraq, Jacques Rogge, Labour, Lishui, Mac, Measures, miscarriages, Nesse, Notion, oil, Olympic, Olympic Games, Olympics, Parents, Peace, Photo, Photographs, Porta, provincial and national government, reviews, RTL, Satisfaction, Shanghai, Shanghai police, Sichuan, statistics, Stems, Tempo, Tiananmen Square, torture, UN General Assembly, unlawful advertising, Wisdom, Woman, Zhejiang