Posted by linkadge on September 30, 2007, at 9:59:00
In reply to Re: I seek permanent hypomania., posted by cumulative on September 29, 2007, at 15:59:01
>Some people are stable and much "higher" than >others.
I don't personally believe so. I think it is probably a self constructed illusion. I would need to personally study such an individual before I could be convinved that such a phenomnia exists. The only person I knew to 'seemingly' fit that model ended up offing themselves. Apparently their hyperthemic personality trait was a reaction formation defense mechanism.
>...not episode-bound and constitute part of the >habitual long-term functioning of the >individual ...
Yeah, but I am not the one making the defintions or around to see that they are indeed acurate as oppsed to a person presenting longer term hypomania that crashes years down the road or that comes out behind closed doors ect.
Think of it this way. Hyperthemic personality can also be a self fufilling/sustaining prophecy. It is easy to hate the hyperthemic personality, so the individual may feel they need to fake a consistent hapiness in order to avoid the embarassment of publicly showing an alternate mood. Ie, they may feel "trapped" in the hyperthemic role etc.
Individuals like Robin Williams were once thought to be hyperthemic, but it is more evident now that they are A) good actors, and B) good at hiding alternate moods C) feel like they must maintain a certain mood image. D) possably good at brining on hypomania when needed.
Robin Williams has full fledged Bipolar, but from the image he presents, you'd never know it.
Theres also a problem of mood congruent memories. Ie a person in a long term hypomania may simply not recall times of depression. It may in fact seem to them that such a mood has always been.
>It's just this -- people have different >baselines. Some people's baselines are very high.I should have been more clear above. The reason I don't believe it is possable is that homeostasis reflects the most sustainable state. As soon as you deviate dramatically, the state becomes less likely to be sustainable. It taxes the system and will eventually take its toll.
>Generally, they are crude tools. MAOIs are >better, but like illegal drugs tolerance >develops to euphoria, although excellent >positive results usually remain.
I hated MAOI's. Parnate for me was psychosis in pill form. I would have had fewer side effects by performing manual sleep deprivation.
>No they don't. Methamphetamine releases massive >amounts of catecholamines. Hyperthymia is also >associated with high catecholamine activity.Yes they do. Most illegal drugs turn on "addiction genes", which tend to activate parts of the brain that are involved in the maintainance of reward seeking behavior and drug seeking behavior. If you look at the gene expression activated by methamphetamine there are a lot of paralells with bipolar mania. Ie PKC, GRK, CLOCK, etc.
>Neither of these are relevant to the fact that >in the literature, people who almost never, if >ever, come down from their hyperthymic >temperament.
I don't necessarily believe something that I read. Unless you monitor a peson 24/7 for a lifetime, you don't know how leeching out occurs in other aspects of their lives.
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