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Old Jul 21, 2006, 10:13 AM
zoidy zoidy is offline
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I like how you call it a gift logan. That makes me smile

And yes meta, that was what I meant

I have been pondering a bit today about how psych diagnoses are rarely clearly cut. I often wonder if I have "depression" or am just depressed or if I have AD(H)D or just don't have a very good attention span. Maybe I have Zoidy Syndrome, which is characterised by depressed mood, issues with food, lack of attention span and extremely good ranting ability.

Also sort of related to that is that psych medicines do lots of things because they act on neurotransmitters that have many functions. So although we classify drugs as "anti-depressants" or "anti-psychotics", they actually have much broader uses. So at the moment I am taking an antidepressant (Efexor), an anti-psychotic (Seroquel) and a stimulant (Ritalin). The Efexor is for depression but probably helps with concentration. The Seroquel is for sleep but also helps with depression. The Ritalin is for ADHD but probably also helps with depression.

And then there are also factors like how depression affects concentration and how lack of sleep affects depression etc. It is all very intertwined. And I have no idea what my "official diagnoses" are. Maybe I will suggest Zoidy disease next time I'm at the psychiatrist... or when I'm a doctor I will "discover" it and write papers about it and be famous!!