Thread: Cycle lengths
View Single Post
 
Old May 17, 2016, 10:53 AM
Icare dixit's Avatar
Icare dixit Icare dixit is offline
Magnate
 
Member Since: Feb 2016
Location: A version of earth
Posts: 2,626
How many different (types of) cycle length do you experience? What meds or supplements or other substances change your cycle lengths? What other influences are there?

I experience four types, I think: many months (2/3 of a year or longer), textbook rapid cycling (six months for depression and mania), daily mood changes and extreme mood changes from seconds to minutes, truly mixed (thoughts can't keep up with the changes in mood).

Are any superimposed on others, on another?

My antipsychotic helps me to make me textbook rapid cycling, but the moderately mixed type may be superimposed on that one. The longest cycles have to be supported by changing and unchanging (and strict, unwanted) routines and activities.

Stimulants increase cycle lengths, except for some mixed states, serotonin might cause a mixed state. Nicotine decreases cycle length up to a point, I think. My other supplements (not 5-HTP) do a very good job at stabilising my mood, so decreasing cycle length.
__________________
Mania kills cells. Brain cells die. Memories become more reduced conceptually, making more efficient use of limited means. Memories shape our reality. Our memories are more or less split in two by abstractions, conceptual reductions. Mood states with memories, concepts, attached. Memories of pain and those of joy. It causes instability, changeability. Fearing that will leave an emptiness between pain and joy and a greater divide.
See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Heal Me.