Posted by zeugma on May 27, 2004, at 19:57:19
In reply to medications change my sexual preference, posted by linkadge on May 26, 2004, at 17:08:31
Linkadge,
Since these meds have such profound influences on core identity concerns, I would like to a couple of (somewhat related) questions.
Do you notice a change in body image while on SSRI's as opposed to noradrenergic meds? I.e., do you feel more attuned/disattuned to bodily sensation? Do serotonergetic or noradrenergic meds cause your bodily self-perception to be more stable? Or is there no change?
Also, I have a split, but between the artistic (I write poetry, plays) and the abstract (my field of study is philosophy, although I often hate it, and I become obsessed at times with mathematics, although I am actually mathematically dyslexic [this problem does exist, and I have a particular problem reading operator signs, and algebra was impossible because I reverse the letters of variables]). I think of this as a 'concrete/abstract' split, although I definitely lean toward the abstract intellectually. Do you find that different meds influence these aspects of intellect?
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