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SimsHost:
Now you've piqued my interest! What is the "savant syndrome"?
witch:
Quote from: veilchen on 2005 August 19, 20:04:13
...my professor warned us that in all likelyhood we would find some of the symptoms within ourselves. She said that whenever she lectured on a particular disorder, more than half of the students would discover symptoms of that disorder in themselves. And right she was...
I was a psychiatric nurse trainee many years ago. The very first thing we were told was that we would identify some of our behaviours with the patients. It was described to me as a continuum, the patients' behaviours were generally no different to that of a 'normal' person, their behaviours just became so obsessive / excessive / anti-social / dangerous, that they were in a mental hospital.
witch:
Quote from: SimsHost on 2005 August 19, 22:43:41
Now you've piqued my interest! What is the "savant syndrome"?
The old way of referring to this was 'idiot savant' I believe. Meaning that people who were markedly non-intelligent could nonetheless do remarkable stunts, often mathematical or pattern recognition sorts of things - music, maths, memory. An example might be of a person multiplying very large numbers in their heads very fast, for instance, when they were not able to tie their own shoelaces.
gali:
"My father is bipolar with psychotic episodes, so I definitely know how tough that can be. I've never had a psychotic episode (knock on head), but I have been diagnosed with bipolar." (Brynne)
Brynne, bipolar disorder is not mental, but physical disease - it's lack of Dopamine and/or Serotonin in the brain cells, which cause psychotic episodes. I think they found that Omega 3 (fish oil pills) can cure it, without taking pills. I receive medical e-mailed news, and someone there described that he was cured only by taking Omega 3. Worth a net search...:).
witch:
Gali, I think you'll find Lithium (which is a form of salt I think) is the crucial factor in bi-polar. Some people can get by without it if they have a mild case, others cannot. I read a book, the buzz of bi-polar is the wonderful crystalline speedy 'high' that these sufferers experience, the sense of being godlike and better than the rest of the slow moving, slow thinking slugs that inhabit this planet.
The book I read was written by a woman who now heads a medical facility of some sort in the States, she has chosen to use Lithium and be stabilised but grieves for the flat nature of her life. Wonderful book, wish I could remember title and author.
I think bi-polar disorder must be like taking speed. My b'f's mother & my ex best mate are both sufferers. My mate wouldn't take Lithium because she loved the highs, even knowing she would pay later with black depression.
Serotonin and dopamine are chemicals often found lacking in addicts/alcoholics I have read. Many drugs like opiates, nicotine and alcohol feed into the seratonin and dopamine receptors, helping to create the physical basis of many addictions. 'Runner's High' was something to do with this area of the brain also.
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