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Re: So I finally sorted out what happened to my brain

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Post by icedchai »

mjgs wrote: post #274
icedchai wrote: post #187

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The same is true of every sense. How do you think hallucinations work? I’ve experienced phantom sounds and sensations. Visual almost never though.

My impression was that hallucinations only happened under extreme conditions, like drugs, alcohol, heat etc, but it’s a bit worrying that it could happen basically anytime. If the brain “learns” that it can accomplish things via this method, then that could be really problematic.

Possibly... I have had minor auditory hallucinations while I'm falling asleep. Most often it is a single sound, like a high pitched ding or bong. It sounds like a notification, but very unlike one from my phone. It is definitely purely internal.

Re: So I finally sorted out what happened to my brain

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Post by mjgs »

icedchai wrote: post #281
mjgs wrote: post #274

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My impression was that hallucinations only happened under extreme conditions, like drugs, alcohol, heat etc, but it’s a bit worrying that it could happen basically anytime. If the brain “learns” that it can accomplish things via this method, then that could be really problematic.

Possibly... I have had minor auditory hallucinations while I'm falling asleep. Most often it is a single sound, like a high pitched ding or bong. It sounds like a notification, but very unlike one from my phone. It is definitely purely internal.

That’s interesting, I hadn’t considered the falling asleep state. Yeah maybe that has happened to me too.

It’s hard / practically impossible to determine exactly what it is though. It might be someone in the next room, someone walking past, another sound entirely that got morphed into the sound you heard to fit your brains narrative as you were falling asleep. Might even be that your phone was hacked!

Something sort of similar: I used to feel phantom phone vibrations when I had the vibration feature activated.

Re: So I finally sorted out what happened to my brain

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Post by sizzle »

tluyben2 wrote: post #72

Same exact symptoms (the bass guitar string he heard is a thing that gave me ptsd like symptoms/crippling anxiety for a long time after) I had from a TIA when I was overworked. He waited getting a scan so they could've missed it later; my office was next to the hospital: nothing showed on the CT one hour after but on the RMI a couple of hours after they found a tiny lesion in one of the regions involved in forming sp…

I agree a suspected stroke deprives your brain of oxygen, you do not want to sleep on it! Slurring speech and facial droop are textbook warnings to call 911 immediately, you might not even be able to speak anything but gibberish so get someone’s help immediately if possible. Stroke awareness is sadly lacking by the young and generally healthy SV demographic.

Re: So I finally sorted out what happened to my brain

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Post by sizzle »

derangedHorse wrote: post #149
tluyben2 wrote: post #72

Same exact symptoms (the bass guitar string he heard is a thing that gave me ptsd like symptoms/crippling anxiety for a long time after) I had from a TIA when I was overworked. He waited getting a scan so they could've missed it later; my office was next to the hospital: nothing showed on the CT one hour after but on the RMI a couple of hours after they found a tiny lesion in one of the regions involved in forming sp…

I wouldn’t go to the hospital either. It’s funny because the more one tries to work and escape debt and financial ruin, the higher the chances are of needing to take an unexpected hospital and getting an unreasonably high medical bill. Some people aren’t in a place to pay insane medical debt, especially in the case where a multitude of tests need to get run and a problem isn’t found. There are a lot of weird things t…

A stroke deprives your brain of oxygen, you literally do not want to ‘wait it out’ or ‘sleep on it’ cause you might not wake up from it and the damage is acute, to put it bluntly.

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Post by krasi0 »

GordonS wrote: post #112
failwhaleshark wrote: post #73

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People usually get "hangry" / feeling like they're going to die like a diabetic does before entering a coma if their glucose actually crashes. My dad was an adult-onset type-1 from exposure to Agent Orange who ended-up in the hospital more than once from either insulin misadministration or glucose-management issues. They might've actually had something like a nervous breakdown or a TIA. PSA: Don't self-diagnose, esp.…

It isn't my intention to doubt Tinker, only to continue discourse here, but I was going to say something similar. I have reactive hypoglycemia and it is very, very obvious when my blood sugars are too low - it really is an absolutely horrible thing. At first I start to feel a little bit "stupid", like my brain isn't functioning properly, and is working in slow motion. Talking is more difficult. Next I start to feel a…

So what is a good and healthy way to address the situation aside from eating something? Using an insulin pump?

Re: So I finally sorted out what happened to my brain

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Post by iovrthoughtthis »

nchi3 wrote: post #133
iovrthoughtthis wrote: post #120

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it’s not so clear cut, instead it’s very interlinked. what you think effects your body, what you do effects your mind. e.g. worrying will cause your heart rate to increase ad your breathing to quicken, breathing slowly will reduce your heart rate, a lower heart rate will reduce your sense of anxiety. your body is a sensor, your mind is the computer. emotions are like the ships diagnostic warnings from star trek. edit…

I agree that it's all very interlinked, but that doesn't mean there's no distinction. Changing your way of thinking is purely psychological, whereas changing what you eat is both. > id add that this is why “mastering your emotions” using the control sense of mastering, doesn’t make sense. I'm not sure I understand what you mean here, it seems to contradict what you said in the earlier sentence? For example, if you ha…

i didn’t want to imply there was no difference between the body and emotions. just that they are a integral parts of the same system.

> I’m not sure I understand you, it seems to contradict what you said earlier.

i did contradict myself because both are true at the same time. my example was one of malfunction, an over reactive warning systems. your example is one of, i assume, coping with unchangeable external stressors.

fyi, the later is a good example of how disconnected we can become. a migraine caused by stress (like any other painful symptom) is pretty late into the warning system that our emotions behave as. while breathing to reduce pain is a good coping tactic, as a long term strategy it isn’t removing the stressors and so only relieves that particular symptom. in that situation i would hope to align myself with my warning system and attempt to change my environment such that the stressor is removed.

if you’re in a situation where the you feel stressor cannot be removed, that is a different discussion.

in the situation where the stressor isn’t apparent then i would seek a therapist as perhaps there are past traumas that have been experienced which exacerbate your emotional response to some stimulus.

Re: So I finally sorted out what happened to my brain

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Post by cutemonster »

kayodelycaon wrote: post #183
vegardx wrote: post #124

This reads out exactly how a manic or hypomanic person would experience things and rationalize past events and feelings. The idea that it has to be something complex and in a sense grandiose compared to "just being burned out" is often a very telling sign. Perhaps it's Twitter forcing the format a little, but I could see myself thinking like this during a hypomanic episode. I'm diagnosed with bipolar disorder (type 2…

This sounds exactly like a psychotic break to me. I had a massive one and it started with a pop in my mind followed by half a year of similar symptoms. In the end, I was diagnosed Bipolar type—1. Some people often ask, the story is here: https://kayode.co/blog/4106/living-with-psychosis/

I wonder, what could other people have done differently, so that you'd found help sooner?

What signs could they have reacted to, and then done what, I wonder, in case I meet someone with similar undiagnosed bipolar some day?

Nice sketches -- I wonder, you sketch the avatar (the wolf / wild dog) yourself? Seems like fun.

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Post by SZJX »

ohazi wrote: post #6
gherkinnn wrote: post #5

> I don't know how I would have done it without my family. > My brain didn't work. > I couldn't have done it myself. Well that is scary.

The first two lines of that tweet: > The healthcare system in the US is a failure. > You have to do it yourself. You have to research things yourself. You have to hunt for doctors & specialists yourself. It is pretty scary. It's not a matter of whether you're going to need the healthcare system to work for you, it's when . Everybody gets older, everybody starts to lose function in various ways, and everybody dies. Th…

In what country would one consider the healthcare system to not “be a failure” though, regarding these aspects or when somebody faces the same issues that the OP has? Sounds like an inherently hard problem given how things are structured now.

Re: So I finally sorted out what happened to my brain

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Post by SZJX »

Easy to blame the US healthcare system, though in what country would one consider the healthcare system to not “be a failure”, regarding these aspects or when somebody faces the same issues that the OP has? Sounds like an inherently hard problem given how things are structured now.

Re: So I finally sorted out what happened to my brain

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Post by andrekandre »

spython wrote: post #278
andrekandre wrote: post #269

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one thing for me, was to realize that whatever is happening, its not about "me" i think sometimes we internalize situations and make it about "us", and while we do indeed cause our own stressful situations sometimes, usually things are in motion (work, poliics, environment) that have really nothing to do with us and internalizing it, as if we are "100% responsible for it" can make one more stressed than it should be…

Exactly, being responsible but not in charge is the mother of all stresses.

it certainly is...
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