Posted by linkadge on September 29, 2007, at 15:43:55
In reply to Re: I seek permanent hypomania., posted by cumulative on September 29, 2007, at 1:44:15
>Why not? It's a spectrum. Frankly there are >plenty of individuals who are constantly >euphoric. This has actually been somewhat >researched. Look up the hyperthymic temperament. >A very few people rarely, if ever, come down.
I don't see it as a spectrum at all. There are individuals who are stable, and then there are indivuduals who are not stable.
I've never known an individual who I could say is perpetually euphoric. I've known people who appear to be euphoric for long periods of time, but I don't live with them so I don't know.
The reason I don't believe they exist is because it would be unhealthy. Pain and discomfort exist to motivate just as much as pleasure does. Suppose an individual had a higher level of dopamine in the brain or something. The brain would eventually adapt just as it does to illegal drugs.
I think that some people might have forms of ultra slow cylothemia, ie they can go for years on hypomania and then years on dysthemia etc.
For every ying there is a yang.
>You should know that my post was somewhat in >jest and I don't feel this way entirely. I would >probably best like to be able to summon the >state at will, instead of "constantly" hypomanic.
Thats what illegal drugs are for.
>You need to seek to do whats right and healthy for you.
>I'm not basing it on what I see in others, I'm >basing it on my own experiences with drug->induced hypomania.
Exactly. Illegal drugs turn on genes that cause parts of the brain to "believe" in the ability to be constantly euphoric. Everybody who does drugs has a feeling of power that they have uncovered some secret ability to surmount that will last forever. If you were thinking about how it would be ending in a few hours then it wouldn't really be euporia.
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