Hormones and the mental health of crazy people

[ignoramus]

Alice. How many times have they done you.
We can help, we're your friends.
time to end the charade.
come home luv.

[TaraJo]

Question: am I crazy to believe that testosterone has the ability to so badly screw up someone's mind, or do hormones have any impact at all upon the FUN side of the mental equation?

I'm a little late to the party, but I figure I should include my two cents. You know, all that personal experience I have and all.

Truth is, our thoughts, feelings, they're nothing more than the result of various chemical reactions in our nervous system. If you change the chemicals in that system, you change the reaction.

Hormones have had a huge impact on me, pychologically speaking. I'm less angry and aggressive now than I used to be. I get happier, too. I laugh more and I laugh harder.

I've seen my boyfriend go through the same metamorphasis. I can tell when he needs his T shot because he gets really anxious and pessimistic then. After he's had his shot, it doesn't even take 30 minutes for him to completely turn around and be back to being all cheerful, happy, joking around and playful.

So, yes, hormones do have a huge impact on us.

[Violet]

Go to the doc. And just be extremely cautious with psychiatric meds.

I don't always take psychiatry meds... but when I do?

I overdose

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Alice. How many times have they done you.

Not sure you want to know the answer to that.

Not sure you can handle the answer to that.

We can help, we're your friends.
time to end the charade.
come home luv.

Oh lardy, The Help has come for me! I knew I should have paid that ninny nanny!

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I'm a little late to the party, but I figure I should include my two cents. You know, all that personal experience I have and all.

I would know something about personal experience.

Truth is, our thoughts, feelings, they're nothing more than the result of various chemical reactions in our nervous system. If you change the chemicals in that system, you change the reaction.

Hormones have had a huge impact on me, pychologically speaking. I'm less angry and aggressive now than I used to be. I get happier, too. I laugh more and I laugh harder.

I feel alienated from my self. Maybe my upcoming visit to a specialist will help me.

And maybe my fears will come to pass. They're rather intense these days. Nobody should ever suffocate to death in a small enclosed dark space... it's not a fun way to go. Some people have enjoyed such a frenzy that if they could move: they'd break their limbs off trying to get out... trying to get air.

Unrelated example, except to the intensity. Should the system not help me for long enough... Alice will help herself. She's not the only one who wants for contentment and cheer around here, and the tears nonforthcoming for the pained do not allow for humanity's release.

I've seen my boyfriend go through the same metamorphasis. I can tell when he needs his T shot because he gets really anxious and pessimistic then. After he's had his shot, it doesn't even take 30 minutes for him to completely turn around and be back to being all cheerful, happy, joking around and playful.

So, yes, hormones do have a huge impact on us.

I'm like a bitchy menopausal woman... with the additional biting angers and lust of testosterone. It's rather unsatisfactory. -_- The ugliness and aboulia that come prepackaged with it have left an exceedingly negative impression upon this unfortunate consumer. It turns out that "free goods and services" do not necessarily make good additions to one's order.

As anyone else who has ever accepted a "free drink" should know.

[Ksa]

Hormones really do affect the mind especially with emotions. It's certainly worth doing what Min said.

I doubt it's hormones, she just doesn't wana say it. It's probably amphetamines for ADHD.

One piece of advice to OP, if you want to experience things far worst than anything you could imagine, keep increasing your dose without your doctor's approval.

[LastPoet]

Sorry, Alice, you are not Cray, not by any of my standards of cray.

[Violet]

I doubt it's hormones, she just doesn't wana say it. It's probably amphetamines for ADHD.

* Violet snorts.

If there's any drug I'm interested in using, it's molly... and that's mostly to see if I can simulate the effects of self-worth and contentment in myself through a hormone (seratonin). When I'm confident, it's like having cheat codes to the universe. Testosterone, the hormone I'm currently on, annihilates my confidence.

One piece of advice to OP, if you want to experience things far worst than anything you could imagine, keep increasing your dose without your doctor's approval.

I've never experienced things worse than I could "imagine". The only way that could happen is if a future daughter of mine is taken forcibly from me at the age of 3, raped brutally, and I find her broken corpse after two days without drinking, eating, or sleeping... her stringy intestinal bits looping over the side of an alley trash bin.

There is nothing that can be physically done to me that is "worse" than what I can hallucinate. Unfortunately... nothing is "better" than it, either.

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Sorry, Alice, you are not Cray, not by any of my standards of cray.

Because I'm usually cognizant of my delusions, I haven't blacked out in a few weeks, I'm usually good at distinguishing internal from external hallucinations, and I rarely experience omissions (though overwrites can be an irritation... every bug may as well be a swarm)... I'm not crazy to you?

Just because I'm not about to don a mop bucket to shlarp the lymphnoodles with my spaghetti stick... doesn't mean I'm not a potential danger to myself and others.

[Mystical]

Lymphnoodle?



How could you possibly be a danger to others, when you are cognizant of what you are and are not physically seeing or doing?

I'm but a helpless little bunneh, but I trust you

[Violet]

Lymphnoodle?



How could you possibly be a danger to others, when you are cognizant of what you are and are not physically seeing or doing?

Blackouts, a manic sexual thrill when committing murder with a knife, and I've been known to take the advice of persons nonreal to anyone but myself. These generally qualify as "potential threat", though the likelihood of such actually being a relevant current threat to other's safety (or my own) is very very low. For now.

I'm but a helpless little bunneh, but I trust you

You say that now... but don't let me drive. The cars may or may not be there, and I may or may not be driving on the road that is really a sidewalk that is anything but empty.

[Mystical]

Lymphnoodle?



How could you possibly be a danger to others, when you are cognizant of what you are and are not physically seeing or doing?

Blackouts, a manic sexual thrill when committing murder with a knife, and I've been known to take the advice of persons nonreal to anyone but myself. These generally qualify as "potential threat", though the likelihood of such actually being a relevant current threat to other's safety (or my own) is very very low. For now.

Not to seem insensitive but.. You're too smart to do anything dumb.
If you were a Bible reader though, I guess I'd be worried..

I'm but a helpless little bunneh, but I trust you

You say that now... but don't let me drive. The cars may or may not be there, and I may or may not be driving on the road that is really a sidewalk that is anything but empty.

Sounds like my 83yo grandfather. He still has a license!

[Losty]

Alice is back yay