Hormones and the mental health of crazy people

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See, this is why I don't take stock in the idea of a "soul." If our personality was so wrapped up in something immaterial, how could it possibly be affected by chemical imbalances in our brain, brain damage, etc.?

Slight tangent aside, I definitely would see your psychiatrist and/or physician.

'Soul' is personality. Any being of personhood has a soul.

I'd prefer to just buy my meds again... I don't need to see them for any other reason than to go through them to buy my hormone medication.

And I may not even have to do that much.

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I'm trusting Patricia Churchland here, but the testosterone and aggression link isn't as 'clean' as typically reported. There's evidence that seratonin levels play and important role as well as an individual's childhood exposure to abuse. This seems to support your initial concern of not getting too enamored with any claims that suggest a particular hormone results in a particular behavior.

Helps that I understand why T has such a psychological effect on me. Was curious as to whether its physiological backlash is partly responsible for a relapse as well.

The dysphoria alone is horrible, and reacts extremely poorly with separation disorders (DID, Schiz, OOBExperiences, etc). It's not a question that as a conflicting being is inserted that things get messy... it's a question of whether there's more to it than a clash of person, say next question:

Does one's physiological state at a time of trauma provide an opportunity to bring forth said trauma as ptsd/hallucinatory illnesses if one is put back into a similar physiological state as they had at the previous time of trauma?

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This may be one time where you need to be impolite.

I'll be speaking with her ghost by the time this day is done