Ok Antipsychotics Affect Gene Function in Bipolar Disorder | Bipolar Beat

IF anti-psychotic medications affect gene expression, then why are we taking them? First, we are told they don't even know how the medications work and now we're told they are correcting our genes in a study that used three bipolar subjects and didn't compare them to healthy subjects!

What are genes? The evolutionary map of the adaptation of our human race. Why shouldn't they be messed with? That's screwing up an adaptive process! You can supplement adaptation when you don't even know how nature has evolved in a fundamental way. You shouldn't be messing with people's genes.

One aspect of evolution is diversity, where in history has war or destruction been proven to benefit humanity? There's no comparison between what the world would look like if there had never been so much violence to how it is today.

But it's obvious that community and team work has solved some of our greatest problems.

If you took some agent and activated a type of gene artificially, you'd have no way to know how that gene acted without it being expressed in a different environment. Eventually you would probably come to the conclusion that modifying genetic expression overall leads to unhealthy maladaptive behavioral problems by default.

Any substance that alters gene expression is dangerous, because it can harm your DNA and cause abnormalities, which is why there are birth defects in children of people on these types of chemicals.

If you think of the DNA as a strand of rods, where each rod is a key to a type of situation and each failed situation deletes a rod, while each successful situation adds one, you can understand how genes play a part in our behavior. Every action in real life creates a blueprint for our evolutionary leaps in time, or the de-evolution of an entire culture based on our reactions to situations.

When you first begin to walk, you realize the result of falling but there is an adaptive trait that causes us to continue to get up and keep trying to walk, but IMO the more we toy with these chemicals, the more their going to haunt us in the future when they'll look back in awe of how gross our world had been.

Basically, DNA is our memory bank of both current and the sum of all prior actions within our genes, and if you alter the memory in that database by inducing artificial reactions to normal events, you can cause a genetic virus which will then be within the DNA and will cause more people to develop Bipolar and Schizophrenia, the offspring of those with the disorder. It's not genetic, the medications are making it genetic because there is no set standard on "appropriate" responses to situations, other than adaptive or maladaptive.

The medications are affecting our genes, and our genes are not toys.

Also, how can a medication cause normal gene expression? At the moment there are fewer links to abnormalities because humanity hasn't had a long history of using these gene, mood and mind altering substances. In the future we won't remember what normal looked like, we'll have invented a new more plastic version of behavior and normality, to substitute the one we lost long ago, a perfect delusional happy ever after to a ****ed up world.