Posted by violette on June 28, 2010, at 21:00:49
In reply to Re: The biology of depression: SLS, posted by linkadge on June 28, 2010, at 20:10:25
How to explain depression?
...Your brain gets exhausted from all the energy it has to expend to maintain your defense mechanisms to block out emotional pain/memories..it gets 'worn down' much like the effects of stress pointed out in the model
Also, your caregivers reinforce how you feel about yourself through mirroring and how they relate to you (can be overt or covert)..Just as I have an overactive nervous system-anxiety-scanning my environment, over observant/ perceptual sensitivity--as a result of how my brain formed maladaptive behavior from early childhood experiences (and sensitivity/ temperment)--how your only source of survival-your caretaker-relates to you changes how you feel about yourself--its internalized through facial expression, words, lack of touch, the attacment pattern of the caretaker, etc. Your defesse mechanisms play a role; it can be so painful your cognitiion finds ways to block the pain (dissociation, for example, which seems to be a biological process).
Maybe science can't measure some of these things, but when you are an infant-your caretakers are a source of life and death and survival is built into us.
Disclaimer: My research methodology is poor. :)
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