It looks like he refers them to the Social Security Administration for a check.
Posted on 11/24/2012 11:24:40 PM PST by neverdem
Did that neurologist think to recommend patients to an endocrinologist to have calcium and parathyroid levels checked?
When I'm forced out of bed before I'm adequately rested, I'm tired all day. I just blew off making the 900 mile drive home for Thanksgiving because my employer sent me to a very expensive security training class, then my niece stole the only sleep day I was going to get for a memorial for her dad. 11 days of forced 6:30 AM starts with work finishing at midnight to 1 AM. I was too burned out to safely drive.
When I'm forced out of bed before I'm adequately rested, I'm tired all day. I just blew off making the 900 mile drive home for Thanksgiving because my employer sent me to a very expensive security training class, then my niece stole the only sleep day I was going to get for a memorial for her dad. 11 days of forced 6:30 AM starts with work finishing at midnight to 1 AM. I was too burned out to safely drive.
Been going on for a while. I think it is caused by an unusual delay after people click “Post” which causes one to either forget that you already posted, or think that it didn’t take and click again. Apparently the software does not have a way to tell that you only clicked “Post Reply” once before multiple “Post” clicks.
By now all old hands presumably know to wait till the browser itself complains of a time out.
It looks like he refers them to the Social Security Administration for a check.
That’s what I was thinking. Great way to get more freebies.
Wonder if they ever considered these people are easily bored?
Thanks again neverdem, your posts contain a ton of interesting info!
Myrddin...if I’m understanding correctly, what you experience with GABA supplementation is the opposite of what it’s ‘sposed to be. Like Ritalin(!?) for hyperactivity - GABA is causing a paradoxical reaction in you. That’s very interesting.
Could it be the source of supplementation that’s “off”? IDK, but I feel for you. There are lists of various GABA-containing foods, I wonder if your reaction to them would be different?
Also, I’m not as up with the research, but I wonder if it’s a GABA problem, or a hyperactive GABA RECEPTOR problem.
I agree with the poster who mentioned checking endocrine function...
just me, but I’d go for blood testing with an eye toward ‘treatment’ with whole food supplements...YMMV.
FRegards,
spank
It is a major principal of meditation to “turn off the noise in your head” before meditating. However, I finally got an interesting hypothesis as to why.
Some people who were very expert at meditation discovered that with extended periods of silence in the head, the mind tends to drift to either an unusual degree of focus, which allows it to consider a narrow situation at hand, ignoring distractions; or the mind becomes very unfocused, a very inspirational state of mind for both creativity and “quantum leaps” in problem resolution.
However, the “internal dialogue” disrupts these shifts in either direction, sticking the mind in the middle, where the mind is involved with the overall situation of a person in the here and now.
This middle position is optimal, they concluded, if you are “being chased by a tiger.” That is, it is survival oriented, far more so than with a state of narrow focus *or* inspiration.
So, in the shadowy past, our ancestors came up with the trick of talking to ourselves, and parents unknowingly indoctrinate their children in this technique to this day, “even though tigers are few and far between these days.”
Thus they concluded, if you use any of the techniques to shut up the internal dialogue, that little bit of mind discipline will give you access to both a strong state of focus, and an inspirational unfocused state.
In practical terms, say if you were doing your SAT test. Just the ability to focus on the test and ignore all the distractions around you might be worth 10-20 IQ points. A much more enhanced ability to concentrate.
Likewise, when faced with an irresolute and complicated problem, or just needing a big shot of inspirational creativity, unfocusing your mind could open the gates.
However, there is more to it than that. The internal dialogue, and the vacillations between a slightly more focused and a slightly more unfocused state of mind are very energy consumptive. A person too skilled with talking to themselves both sounds like an “airhead surfer”, and are exhausted by all the energy used to keep them in that state.
When such people use one of the techniques to control their internal dialogue, the change is dramatic. I knew one such surfer airhead type who applied himself to a technique for a good two week, and he was like a different person.
Not just speaking in coherent sentences, but full paragraphs, and his brain filled with energy and good ideas. He was very pleased with the result, but somewhat apprehensive, because were that rate of improvement to continue, he imagined it would be overwhelming.
He did describe his new ability as like having “a knife switch in his head”, so he could turn his dialogue on or off at will.
Look up "First sleep and Second sleep" for another idea about how we might be wired and why some of us struggle with going back to sleep.
Unless we develop our will and intent, we are ego ruled creatures, slaved to its whims and desires.
In all fairness, most people do not know that they can, and few would be willing to try even if they did know.
There is no motivation unless with are inspired and encouraged by forces beyond ourselves. Otherwise, we live and die, until something comes along and fractures our zeitgeist. Then most people die, and the few that remain either cling to the old ways, or try something new.
Many of us are essentially lazy, often fearful creatures who do little more than necessary.
However, we bore easily and thus there are a few seekers, inventors, explorers and adventurers who will boldly go where others fear to tread, either on their own or by following another's example.
Outside factors can change the nature of things and whether we look outside or inside. For example, I wonder how much has been displaced/lost by the ubiquitous television/idiot box.
” ...who applied himself to a technique...”
What does that mean?
He took the technique seriously and performed it a lot.
Which technique?
What helped him so much?
Any doc worth his/her salt would order standard chemistry tests that include calcium just to have a baseline after getting a chief complaint as well as complete prior medical and surgical history. Parathyroid levels would be checked only if the calcium result is abnormal, possibly only if that calcium result is confirmed by a repeat test.
I wonder how much genetic/epigenetic testing might explain it, what the bill would be and if you could get a definitive answer. It's possible that they could just rule out what they know to test for on a routine basis.
I always thought of GABA as an inhibitory neurotransmitter, but medicine always has something new to teach me.
Coexistence of excitatory and inhibitory GABA synapses in the cerebellar interneuron network.
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