effexor xr and vision problems/macular degeneration

A couple of years later, my eyesight became notably worse. As a designer, I was really concerned, as my ability to differentiate colours was greatly impacted. I decided to see a specialist and was told that not only did I have predictable (for my age) cataracts, but that in examining my eyeball interiors, I had signs of drusen, which is indicative of macular degeneration. I couldn’t believe it, so I saw another specialist. Now this is something that usually is genetic, and there again, I have my octogenarian parents, who wear glasses, but certainly never got this diagnosis! I got the same diagnosis the second time.

This year, the vision thing started to get way worse. I had several incidents night driving where the glare from headlights would blind me so much that I couldn’t read a road sign when I placed it in my centre of vision.

there are certain families of anti-depressants that are responsible for symptoms that mimic age-related macular degeneration. from depression forums

drusen-like markings…

protein folding and depression

Some models of mood disorders (Hyman and Nestler 1996; Post 1992) have attempted to incorporate the notion of compensatory processes into an understanding of the pathophysiologic changes that occur in patients with mood disorders, but few studies have tested these notions empirically (Post 1992). Part of the difficulty has been identifying neuroprotective mechanisms that may be of relevance for mood disorders.

Recently, we found that treatment with the mood stabilizing drugs, valproate and carbamazepine, increased expression of the 78-kilodalton glucose-regulated protein (GRP78) (Wang et al. 1999). GRP78 is a member of the ER stress protein family that includes GRP94 and calreticulin, all of which function as Ca2+ binding proteins and molecular chaperones to assist in the regulation of protein folding (Gething 1997). These proteins have neuroprotective properties, are induced by seizures and ischemic damage, and may be involved in Alzheimer’s disease pathology (Yu et al. 1999; Lowenstein et al. 1994; Hamos et al. 1991).

Increased expression of ER stress proteins by mood stabilizing drugs suggest that these proteins may be involved in the pathophysiology of mood disorders, perhaps as compensatory factors induced in response to stress-related neuronal damage. Further evidence for a role of neuroprotective proteins in mood disorders comes from recent reports of increased Bcl-2 levels, another neuroprotective anti-apoptotic factor, after treatment with mood stabilizers (Chen et al. 1999; Chen and Chuang 1999). To test the hypothesis that ER stress proteins may be important in the pathophysiology of mood disorders, we measured GRP78, GRP94 and calreticulin in postmortem samples of patients with mood disorders, schizophrenia and nonpsychiatric controls.

from Increased Temporal Cortex ER Stress Proteins in Depressed Subjects Who Died by Suicide

The Structure of Calnexin, an ER Chaperone Involved in Quality Control of Protein Folding

Lessons from a Mouse Model Characterizing Features of Vascular Cognitive Impairment with White Matter Changes

FK506 binding protein 5

regenerative bio and medicine

diary of a ‘mad’ divorcee

Life Is Good by Hugh Man

I never thought of myself as ‘mad’ as in ‘crazy.’ True enough, I battle what’s been pathologized (depending on the most current ‘Big-Pharma-push) as Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), BiPolar I, Borderline Personality Disorder … whatever. All I know for certain is that my earliest memories — dating back to age 3 — are of being a sad, distanced, lonely child. Few friends. Fearful. An early reader. An early poet. In love with the magic of words and language.

By the time I was 14, I knew there was something decidedly different about me. I was a veritable cripple, a sore-thumb in a world seemingly peopled with gorgeous lithe gymnists; cliquey cute, baton-twirling cheerleaders; and popular, Twiggy-sized go-go-dancing blondes. While they were spending endless hours each night gossiping on teen-age telephone trees, I was memorizing Latin declensions and conjugations and interpreting literary allusions in The Four Quartets. Still, I recall an escalating sense that I was ODing on forced injections of their reality which began to warp my fragile, painstakingly constructed inner sanctuary.

But I held on for 30 years, using wine and vodka, sporadic talk therapy and sobriety, acupuncture, jogging and meditation. I mastered how to ‘act as if,’ to show up at work and put in 60-hour weeks as a writer because writing is my bliss, my salvation … (imagine getting paid for this?). I married and raised a child, pushing her out into the real world beyond my grasp where she learned young how to conquer her fears.

Things were going relatively well until the cracks in my foundation gave way to a total collapse of my infrastructure, a perilous pancaking which in turn necessitated a psychotrophic intervention.

Since then, I’ve been coping. Always fiddling with an ever-changing pharma-cocktail. Always searching for an alternative. A way off the dreaded mind-bending meds, which have in many manners morphed into what feels like a fugue-like mental straitjacket.

I realized too late that with all its shortcomings, the marriage — assuming the role of wife and mother — was kinda like the Elmer’s glue that held it all together. That masked the manic turbulence that lie beneath.

It was after the divorce, which occurred at the end of my daughter’s high school years, when all the scaffolding was removed, that the patchwork which was me began sprouting major leaks. Sporadically. Situationally. Perhaps seasonally. Does it matter?

The episodes became more intense. Occurring closer together. Blacker. More suicidal.
The mood swings became more extreme. Holding onto a job? Impossible. I never did have a sense of boundaries when it came to journalistic integrity. So you can imagine, when newspapers and web content providers started being bought out and run by CEOs with no knowledge whatsoever of objectivism in reporting, copyright patents and The Chicago Manual of Style? HAH. They didn’t know what hit them. Not one to play by corporate protocol, I never hesitated to take my concerns straight to the top, walking by secretaries, sending direct emails. Grabbing the ear of the ‘big suit’ in a random encounter in a parking lot. A cafe. The employee lunchroom.

Not hard to understand why I’ve been free lancing for the past five years. Nobody pulling the strings in the media industry today wants to deal with some middle-aged, old-school minion sending them a note sorta like this:

Jim,

Just thought I’d send you a few suggestions re current issue before we publish.

1. Page 23 Para 6. Lines 6-8. Copy reads:
“While this positioning is quite different from the one commonly held by magazine publishers, it will distinguish the uniqueness of our editorial brand.”

Correction: Never use from with different! Should read: While this position is quite different than the one commonly held magazine publishers, it will distinguish the uniqueness of our editorial brand.”

2. Appendix, III. (3)

“During the initial phases, the editorial team will design guidelines for free lance writers, policy for submitting images, and copy edit all existing content to comply with The Chicago Manual of Style.”

Correction: Problem with parallelism: Should read: “During the initial phases, the editorial team will design guidelines for free lance writers, write policy for submitting images, and copy edit all existing content to comply with The Chicago Manual of Style.”

“BTW: All sources on Page 3 story on “Do fetuses prefer Hagan Daz to Ben and Jerry’s?” have conflicts of interest. Plus, the article is blatantly editorializing, written from POV of RTL nut jobs. Know you’re under a lot of pressure from the Board, but don’t we first and foremost have a responsibility to our readers?”

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Imagine being the CEO of Times Warner and getting this kinda shit in your in box or voice mail or having a writer you never saw before approach you as your chauffeur drops you off at outside corporate headquarters on Columbus Circle?

Finit! More times than I like to remember.

But I digress … just trying to set the table ….

Last week Sunday. Restorative Yoga. One of the first poses. Paschimottanasana. I’m doing this inner brain visualization with tactics I learned from Reiki years ago. Moving my consciousness around, along the top of my brain. Pushing bright light in through the frontal, cerebral and parietal lobes . Visioning tossing huge silver buckets of clear cool water over the hypocampus, pituitary, thalmus, and pineal glands. Pulling out that bristle brush in hopes of activating Gliogenesis When suddenly I see my mind as one of those huge clumps of Halloween cobweb gook. I take it out of the package and spread it inside, covering both hemispheres. Stretch. Stretch. Ah, there’s some holes, some tears. Some mean looking globs in the upper right cerebrum. I’ll need to get to them. That’s one helluva nasty looking rip across the corpus callosum reaching deep down into my hippocampus and the amygdala. That’ll needs quite a few heavy-duty stitches.

Cobweb Hedge: Strange maggot filled cobweb that has appeared on the pegwood hedges in Tipperary. Photo by Fiona Kearney.

Mending? The concept slowly rolls down from my temporo-parietal junction . Healing? Have I ever even conceptualized healing my damaged brain? Has anyone? Hasn’t it always rather been a matter of slapping on some spackling paste, pharmaceutical camouflage, elaborately constructed definitions? All designed to blunt the impact of an hyper-sensitive soul under attack, ravaged by external realities which terrify her?

…. The teacher shifts us into Viparita Karani. Once positioned, I move back back inside … What I need is some needles. Knitting needles? Crochet hooks? A corkscrew? Pipecleaner? Ouch. Everything seems too course, too painful. For quite some time, I toss around the concept that I just might have to morph myself into a spider to truly repair the damage. Impossible.

The past and pending by Terra Kate

Supta Virasana. I move my consciousness outside my body again. Drift around weightless in a zero gravity world in search of the perfect tool. Something gentle, non-invasive, like the wing of a butterfly brushing past … a leaf tossed along in the breeze, catching wisps and bearing them along to cloture … a luminous white feather, conducting anthroscopic feather surgery….

Magie des Lichts by Alice Popkorn
“We become intensely powerful and effective once we start believing in the light within us, and allow this inner light to guide us toward the right action.” Linda Tucker

L’Operation

I’ll need a marionette … That’s it! I’ll need to drop a gentle marionette-like figure into my consciousness, slide it down into the innermost parts of my brain on a multi-colored string, suspended perhaps from a kite flying free overhead.

no limit by Alice Popkorn

In our willingness to step into the unknown, the field of all possibilities, we surrender ourselves to the creative. Enjoy the journey. Instead of motivation, look for inspiration. Inspiration comes from the same word as spirit.
When you are inspired, the spirit moves you. DeepakChopra

The marionette will tip toe along this tightrope, suspended in my ether-esque mind … the slight pressure of each step healing, transforming, breathing magic into the dark spaces, bending forward to weave together glial threads with the light of the feather.

… until ….

Spirit World By Alice Popkorn

All gone! For now.

Toolkit

Yogic Stillness Made Simple – Restorative Yoga

Mindfulness meditation improves connections in the brain

Impact of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction training on intrinsic brain connectivity.

Neuroplasticity – How Exercising the Brain Helps it to Grow and Repair

A bigger brain with meditation

Psych visit

post peak oil depression treatments news

Helmet therapy provides treatment for depression

Trans-cranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).

A machine resembling a dentist’s chair, called Neuro-Star, delivers electrical stimulation to Keeran’s brain using magnetic pulses similar to an MRI. The pulses are focused on specific neural pathways in the brain. The signal strength is controlled by her psychiatrist, Dr. Travis Svensson.

Svensson says that while the concept bears some resemblance to traditional electro-therapy, it actually works in a different way.

“Whereas other therapies like shock therapy create a seizure to release neurotransmitters, the goal for TMA is not to create a seizure,” he explained. “We’re not trying to release neurotransmitters. We’re trying to energize nerve tracks in the brain.” Link

Deep brain stimulation a the Mayo Clinic

How it works

A thin, insulated wire lead with four electrodes at the tip is surgically implanted into the affected area of the brain. A wire runs under the skin to a battery-operated pulse generator implanted near the collarbone. The generator is programmed to send continuous electrical pulses to the brain. It can be turned on or off when the patient swipes a special magnet over the generator. (Movement disorders patients typically turn off the device at night, because tremors usually stop during sleep.)

To implant the electrodes, a neurosurgeon uses a stereotactic head frame and magnetic resonance or computed tomography imaging to map the brain and pinpoint the problem area. The patient’s scalp is anesthetized before the procedure, but the patient is awake to report side effects while the electrodes are placed . This allows the lead to be placed for maximum effectiveness and minimum side effects. The patient will receive sedation or general anesthesia before the wire lead and the pulse generator are implanted.

Deep brain stimulation can be done on one or both sides of the brain, depending on the disorder and the patient’s problems.

Side effects are generally mild and reversible. The most common are a temporary tingling in the limbs, slight paralysis, slurred speech and loss of balance.

Battery life varies with usage and settings. The battery should last about five years with 16 hours of use a day. When the battery needs to be replaced, the pulse generator is replaced, usually while the patient is under local anesthesia during an outpatient procedure.

The procedure is expensive. It uses both sophisticated surgical and implanted equipment, in addition to the cost of surgery and hospitalization. Medicare and many insurance plans cover most costs associated with deep brain stimulation for movement disorders. Other uses of deep brain stimulation will likely be covered in the future.

Is The Rest Of The World ‘Crazy Like Us’?

Talk of the Nation, January 14:

Author Ethan Watters thinks that America is “homogenizing the way the world goes mad.” In Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche, he describes how American definitions and treatments of mental illness have spread to other cultures around the world.

“[McDonald's] golden arches do not represent our most troubling impact on other cultures,” Watters writes. “Rather, it is how we are flattening the landscape of the human psyche itself. We are engaged in the grand project of Americanizing the world’s understanding of the human mind.”

Watters talks with NPR’s Rebecca Roberts about the cultural diversity of mental illness — and how that diversity is quickly disappearing. Listen or read.

The mental health field is plagued with the bigotry of low expectations. Far too many people are talking about “changing the stigma,” while creating the worst stigma of all–the idea that we are not capable of achieving greatness. – Bipolar In Order

Petroleum in out medications: So what happens when there is not enough petroleum remaining to make many of the products we’ve grown so accustomed to:

Of course, everyone realizes petroleum products are used in the gasoline we fuel our vehicles and in the heating oil we use to keep our homes warm. But did you know petroleum-based components are in medicines, food, plastics, and even in the clothes we wear? Not only is petroleum a source for fuel, but it has many other uses.

Petrolatum or better known as petroleum jelly is sometimes blended with paraffin wax and used in medicines and in many toiletries and healing moisturizers. Paints, lacquers, and printing inks all have within them petroleum-based solvents to make them flow better. Besides your automobile engine, all machinery, like the engine in your lawn mower, need lubricating oils and grease made from petroleum to keep them running smoothly. Petroleum (or paraffin) wax is used in packaging, candles, matches, shoe polish, and even candy making. Asphalt we use
to pave our driveways, roads and airfields is a byproduct of petroleum. Asphalt also is used to surface canals, dams, and reservoirs. We can find this in the linoleum we cover our floors with and in the shingles we put on our roofs.

Petroleum coke is used as a raw material for many carbon and graphite products. These products include furnace electrodes and liners and the anodes used in the production of aluminum. Aluminum is used in the construction of just about all of our everyday appliances.

Since the 1920′s, petroleum has been used as a feedstock in the production of petrochemicals. A liquid obtained from the refining of crude oil called naphtha is one of the basic feedstocks, Petrochemical feedstocks also include products recovered from natural gas, and refinery gases (ethane, propane, and butane). Petrochemical feedstocks are converted to basic chemical building blocks and intermediates, such as ethylene, propylene, normal- and iso-butylenes, butadiene, and aromatics such as benzene, toluene, and xylene.

Peak Oil defined:

“Peak oil” is the term used to describe the situation when the amount of oil that can be extracted from the earth in a given year begins to decline, because geological limitations are reached. Extracting oil becomes more and more difficult, so that costs escalate and the amount of oil produced begins to decline. The term peak oil generally relates to worldwide production, but a similar phenomenon exists for individual countries and other smaller areas.

Resources: The Oil Drum

and now …

depression? is that what it is called?

The data on mental depression is as alarming as it is for economic depression. According to the National Institute of Health, 14.8 million Americans over 18 suffer from depression in any given year. This number represents 6.7% of the adult population(compare this to the current unemployment rate of 6% to get a feel for the number of depression sufferers). By 2020 the World Health Organization estimates that depression will be the second leading cause of death after heart disease. Left to its own devices depression is an effective assasin on its own. Of those who suffer from depression, the National Institute of Mental health states that 15% will eventually commit suicide. There is no cure for depression and medication is effective in only about half of all cases.

 

Glenn Close & Bring Change 2 Mind

NIMH Research News
NIMH Grants
International Mental Health Research Organization
NARSAD
Study Participation

circadian rhythm disruptions & depression

I wake every morning  terrified, overwhelmed with dread about opening my eyes. My heart burns with excessive cortisol.  My breathing is shallow. There is no returning to sleep. The only hope is that after getting up and facing the day, losing myself in brain work, my mood will improve. My will to live will return. It is like this every morning. Every day. It was what I go to sleep anticipating. It is this dread of waking up that dictates how late I remain awake each night. Not wanting to let go of the simple sense of  “I’m okay right now-ness” that permeates my evenings.

I wake in the mornings only because the drugs I take each night have reached the nadir of their effectiveness. They have zonked me out for 7 hours.  My mind and body are still trazadone-infused, but the stronger pulse of anxiety, that damned overwhelming despair, is cursing  my blood, seething through my brain. Incalculably more powerful.

Today,  after 15 plus years of treatment for MDD, after mulling all these years over the onset of the pent-ultimate psychotic episode, the psychic swan song, which eventually launched me (battling to the end zones of my sanity) never to return, into the all too eager arms of psycho-pharmaceuticals, like a 500 watt bulb exploding in my mind what I knew all along was right. The doctors were wrong. The drug companies were wrong. The DSM-IV was wrong. The insurance companies were wrong. I was never mentally ill. My body clock, my natural rhythms, were off-the-charts out of kilter  Off beat.  Screaming for, unable to regain homeostasis. They are still screaming somewhere in there, clothed somewhere inside me. All true sound has been muted. By drugs. By being on the wrong end of science. By reaching a crisis point at the wrong time in history. And finally by being a strung-out guinea pig pin cushion of meta-med experiment at the beginning of the end of an economic system gone totally ape-shit.

I am now an acceptable loss. I am a product designed according to the principles of planned obsolescence.

Admittedly, 15 years ago doctors didn’t know much about cortisol and depression. I would talk about adrenaline and rushes in my chest and brain zaps, about watching my skin roll down my legs, about my head jerking around so violently at night I feared it would break my neck.  And always their faces would register nadda. Noone had ever reported these reactions before. Drugs worked differently for everyone. We would just wait it out.

All of these new drugs came sans operating instructions. Limited clinical trials. No studies on long term effects. We were charting new territory. A brave new world tinkering around with affect, behavior, inside the proverbial black box.

Was the term  ‘circadian rhythm’ even a part of their vocabulary back then? Cause I never heard it mentioned. And believe me, once I regained a semblance of sanity, I was no easy convert. I battled, researched, argued. Tapered down. Broke down. Started up again. An endless cycle.

Fifteen years ago, all they knew was Prozac and Pazil and benzos. If you talked about anxiety, you were depressed. If you talked about not sleeping, it was because you were depressed. A highly effective method of treating ‘mentally ill’ patients with SSRIs had already exerted a tenacious grip on mental health practitioners. They were doing right by their patients. They were seeing miracles. Lives were being turned around. Suddenly, being depressed became the norm. Everybody wanted to live a drug-mediated existance. Except people like me. People who had to. People who had expereinced true psychosis. We just wanted our brains back. We just wanted to return to a place where we couldn’t afford to forget our magic bullets cause if we did we’d be nuts by nightfall.

I can understand how it happened. I can understand that these doctors had their patients best interests at heart.Back in the day, these were miracle cures. Insurance companies were not the monsters they are today. Direct to consumer advertising was not yet legal.

We lived in a different world in the 90s. Before Clinton really sold us out. Before the coup. Before the Telecommunications Act.  Before DTC.  Back in the day, drug companies were our friends.

HA!

I was right in recognizing that what initiated the episode, what initiated every episode, both before and since,  was a disturbance in my body’s circadian rhythms. That the release of cortisol  in my body was so out of wack that I could not sleep, and when I didn’t sleep I became crazier and crazier .. and the rushes in my chest became more and more intense until electric shocks were pulsing through my entire body and my limbs were going numb and I was hallucinating and couldn’t eat and couldn’t find safety. There was no release, no where to escape. Wolves were chasing my car. Pictures were dripping blood. Trees were transforming into menacing mine fields.  Life was a 24/7 nightmare.

It wasn’t my mind that went nuts. I went crazy because my body sold me out.

Today, I discovered that the majority of people diagnosed with MDD wake up depressed. They feel better at night. They tend to stay up until all hours of the morning because they just don’t want to lose that sense of being alive and awake. Productive, engaged.   And now I wonder as well, if this imbalance was the reason I so compulsively (before the psycho-pharmaceutical intervention) needed such utter control over my nights. How I couldn’t answer the phone after 8, have company spend the night, how fear of my daughter waking up could generate such an obsessive rapid cycling of fear that sleep became impossible. The need for sleep was so all encompassing because of the horror of spending a day without sleep. Other people could do that but for me? Just one night without sleep compromised my hold on reality. Brought me to the precipice of insanity. It was always like that for me, even as a child. It is like that for everyone in my family.

Sleep was my opiate. Without it, I could not function. I don’t have to worry about that anymore. For 15 years now, drugs have solved that problem.

But now what do I do? What do all of us do, the ones whose inner clocks went haywire and landed us in the prison of anti-depresseant and benzo hell….. what do we do now? Now that we’re hooked. Now that we’ve reached Peak Oil and petroleum is the basic ‘stuff’ of our prescriptions? What do we do now when a looming energy crisis jeopardizes the shipment of our sanity? When we can no longer the monetary costs which sustain our sanity?

Is there anyway out of here?

Here’s some research … direct attributions all …

science of body rhythms and depression

 

Circadian Rhythms: Body Clocks (Nature)

Definitions

Circadian rhythms :  what the body uses to manage appetite, vigor, rest, sexual arousal, and mood. So, when the body’s rhythm is out of kilter, a person suffers mood disorders and depression. The good thing is that this is a known issue: continued research has shown how to put the body back in balance. Studies have proven that realigning the circadian rhythms of the body can reduce away depression. Link

Diurnal: Relating to or occurring in a 24-hour period; daily.

Studies

OBJECTIVES: The aim of the study was to establish if there are differences in the 24-hour melatonin secretion profile between patients with major depression (before, and after treatment with clomipramine) compared to those in healthy subjects. Additionally, we determined if there are differences in melatonin concentrations, depending on the severity of depression, and the presence of 24-hour rhythm disturbances.

It is provisionally concluded that diurnal mood variation in depression can usefully be understood from the perspective of weakened circadian function. Findings are discussed in terms of limitations of the study’s naturalistic design and future research avenues identified. Link

Objective

The aim of this article is to review progress in understanding the mechanisms that underlie circadian and sleep rhythms, and their role in the pathogenesis and treatment of depression.

Methods

Literature was selected principally by Medline searches, and additional reports were identified based on ongoing research activities in the authors’ laboratory.

Many physiological processes show circadian rhythms of activity. Sleep and waking are the most obvious circadian rhythms in mammals. There is considerable evidence that circadian and sleep disturbances are important in the pathophysiology of mood disorders. Depressed patients often show altered circadian rhythms, sleep disturbances, and diurnal mood variation. Chronotherapies, including bright light exposure, sleep deprivation, and social rhythm therapies, may be useful adjuncts in non-seasonal and seasonal depression. Antidepressant drugs have marked effects on circadian processes and sleep.

Conclusions

Recent progress in understanding chronobiological and sleep regulation mechanisms may provide novel insights and avenues into the development of new pharmacological and behavioral treatment strategies for mood disorders. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Link

the rhythm of life

Biological Clocks

Therapies

Interpersonal and Social Rhythm Therapy (IPSRT)

Interpersonal and Social Rhythm Therapy (IPSRT) is founded upon the belief that disruptions of our circadian rhythms and sleep deprivation may provoke or exacerbate the symptoms commonly associated with bipolar disorder. Its approach to treatment uses methods both from interpersonal psychotherapy, as well as cognitive-behavioral techniques to help people maintain their routines. In IPSRT, the therapist works with the client to better understand the importance of circadian rhythms and routines in our life, including eating, sleeping, and other daily activities. Clients are taught to extensively track their moods everyday. Once routines are identified, IPSRT therapy seeks to help the individual keep the routines consistent and address those problems that arise that might upset the routines. This often involves a focus on building better and healthier interpersonal relationships and skills.

Chronotherapies: a treatment for insomnia in which a person’s normal cycle of waking and sleeping is altered.

Depression: Antidepressant Side Effects Hinder Long-Term Treatment
A Review of Side Effects and Alternative Therapies

Resynchronizing Mood Cycles
Syncholamine and Positrol: for circadian synchronism and control of homeostasis.
Syncholamine in the early part of the day, and Positrol toward the end of the day, produces a greater benefit than taking either product alone. Together these formulas act as timekeepers to resynchronize the bodys circadian rhythms, while promoting the proper circadian switching and functioning of the daytime energy production pathway and the nighttime sleep and repair pathway. In addition, these formulas may have anti-aging effects by normalizing neurotransmitter balance, thereby improving hypothalamic receptor sensitivity.Link

Binaural Beats & Consciousness

Damn. Just damn.

hell

brain on lsd

videos show what is happening inside brain on lsd …. so when are they going to use this to film what our brains are like on psycho-meds? And what impacts these meds are having on the rest of our bodies? HUH?

(image source: jmelt.deviantart.com/art/Your-Brain-on-Drugs-…_)

 

ON Major Depressive Disorders & Cortisol Levels

Levels of cortisol, a hormone associated with the human “fight-or-flight” response, have long been studied as possible biological markers for depression. In many adults, cortisol levels rise when the person is acutely depressed and return to normal when the depression passes. Research findings have been inconsistent regarding cortisol levels in children and adolescents, although there is some evidence that higher levels of cortisol secretion are associated with more severe depressive symptoms and with a higher likelihood of recurrence. As of 2002, however, cortisol levels are not considered to be reliable enough to be useful in diagnosing MDD.

Read more: http://www.minddisorders.com/Kau-Nu/Major-depressive-disorder.html#ixzz0V7XLZcRV

Beyond Medicine

New info on neuroplasticity. Beyond Medicine

quantum … zero point … vibratory imbalances …

We are whirling through endless space, with an inconceivable speed, all around us everything is spinning, everything is moving, everywhere there is energy… There must be some way of availing ourselves of this energy more directly. Then, with the light obtained from the medium, with the power derived from it, with every form of energy obtained without effort, from the store forever inexhaustible, humanity will advance with giant strides. The mere contemplation of these magnificent possibilities expands our minds, strengthens our hopes and fills our hearts with supreme delight.” — Nikola Tesla, referring to Zero Point Energy in 1891

Evidence in the form of short-lived radioactive nuclei found in meteorites suggests that our solar system was immersed for a time in a sea of energetic particles.

Sound therapy …. at its very core mental illness is a result of a quantum vibratory imbalance or impurity at the level of thought and emotion … zero point field therapies working at origin of invisible substructure of human energy field (HED)

Zero Point Energy Defined

… the origin of zero-point energy is the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which states that, for a moving particle such as an electron, the more precisely one measures the position, the less exact the best possible measurement of its momentum (mass times velocity), and vice versa. The least possible uncertainty of position times momentum is specified by Planck’s constant, h. A parallel uncertainty exists between measurements involving time and energy (and other so-called conjugate variables in quantum mechanics). This minimum uncertainty is not due to any correctable flaws in measurement, but rather reflects an intrinsic quantum fuzziness in the very nature of energy and matter springing from the wave nature of the various quantum fields. This leads to the concept of zero-point energy.

Zero-point energy is the energy that remains when all other energy is removed from a system. This behaviour is demonstrated by, for example, liquid helium. As the temperature is lowered to absolute zero, helium remains a liquid, rather than freezing to a solid, owing to the irremovable zero-point energy of its atomic motions. (Increasing the pressure to 25 atmospheres will cause helium to freeze.) Calphysics: Introduction to Zero -Point Energy

The Dimension of the Light

Not only shamans know we are made of light or energy.
Light is energy of course or vibration.
Physicists talk about light quantum.
Through meditation I recognized the same.
Deep meditation can have the same effect as a trance dance –
Meditation can open the special space – the space between…
Trance does not mean unconscious mind – I never felt “drunk” but clear and aware.

Meditation is a way to experience altered states of consciousness. But it takes time to practice. First I was confronted with my emotions like anger, enviousness, guilt or impatience. But after that… I was just giving up… I was sitting in pure bliss… I felt light… I recognized the energy… and then nothing but consciousness of what was happening… hard to explain… but worth trying to make the experience oneself.
Meditation is a practice to slow down activity – trance dance is hyper activity. Both can have the same effect: the experience of the other dimension.
I see the same world with new eyes. Not the physical eyes. In dreams you do not see with physical eyes. Consciousness sees…

catching up with your parallel world …. locating and slipping through a time/space warp

Zero Point Healers

Metatones: Sound Therapy and Zero Point Healing

pure codes and thought forms from the particular element of one’s nature …. each realm (physical, psychological, emotional, social, and spiritual) has its own zero point … Link

Meditation for activating your zero point – The Spirit of Ma’at

(*Zero Point Energy is defined as the electromagnetic field, once known as the void between cells, now known as the space of creation, that helps explain intention. It is estimated that there is enough zero point energy contained in one cubic meter of space to boil all the oceans of the world.)

quantum k healing … returning to our original blueprint

breathing … more than just a response to live …Improper breathing leads to anxiety and stress – two main culprits that cause so many devastating diseases and conditions. Daily practice is needed to make sure you are getting the most out of your breaths! Andrew Weil

free texture … fluff …. essential ‘stuff’

quantum flux … ahhhh, here i am …. now what?

zero point healing: stripping away the facades of personality, affect, socialization, phobia, neurosis, psychosis …. movement in, out, above, beyond … beyond pharma and wyeth and astra zeneca, beyond genetics and patents and bogus clinicial trials … disinformation, withdrawals, side effects, cognitive dulling ….