Psycho-Babble Medication Thread 90400

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What I smell, often effects my mood.

Posted by zarathustra on January 15, 2002, at 23:23:40

This is an odd post which is difficult to phrase.
I am currently without diagnosis (a definative one anyway).

I have noticed that my moods and emotions are frequently triggered or enhanced by certain smells, such as cologne, pine, fresh air, perfume, gasoline, asphalt, pretty much every smell to some degree affects my moods. I drive with my window down always (yes even in the winter) so that I can get wiffs of what the outside air smells like. Frequently I will smell things I pick up (as long as no one is around to see) like books; I love the smell of old books, clothes, everything.

Is this just a wierd quirky thing I have?

Or is it something else?

I know that autistic children are very sensory and that the olfactory sense is somehow linked to wierd and poorly understod parts of the brain.........

Anyone with insight (or should I say insmell) please comment.

andrew

Re: What I smell, often effects my mood. » zarathustra

Posted by sid on January 16, 2002, at 7:52:58

In reply to What I smell, often effects my mood., posted by zarathustra on January 15, 2002, at 23:23:40

Go to the web site www.brainplace.com.
When some parts of the brain are problematic, one of the therapy solution is... smells ! Music too if I remember well. Anyway, go read there.
It's about a clinic that does diagnoses of difficult cases, sometimes with brain imaging if deemed necessary. I have found their web site VERY interesting. You can also take a "test" to try and figure out which part of your brain might be problematic.

Re: Brain Place » sid

Posted by IsoM on January 16, 2002, at 13:10:52

In reply to Re: What I smell, often effects my mood. » zarathustra, posted by sid on January 16, 2002, at 7:52:58

Thanks for the site, sid. It definitely looks interesting. I'm strongly affected by smells too & will get mild olafactory hallucinations too. I have a tendency to go about picking up objects & smelling them too.

> Go to the web site www.brainplace.com.
> When some parts of the brain are problematic, one of the therapy solution is... smells ! Music too if I remember well. Anyway, go read there.
> It's about a clinic that does diagnoses of difficult cases, sometimes with brain imaging if deemed necessary. I have found their web site VERY interesting. You can also take a "test" to try and figure out which part of your brain might be problematic.

Re: What I smell, often effects my mood. » zarathustra

Posted by spike4848 on January 17, 2002, at 0:41:19

In reply to What I smell, often effects my mood., posted by zarathustra on January 15, 2002, at 23:23:40

> Anyone with insight (or should I say insmell) please comment.
>
> andrew

Hey,

You often hear neurologists and psychiatrists ask patients if they have any "soft epilepsy" symptoms. These come in the form of auras .... strong smells or flashing lights. Sometime these are signs of temporal lobe epilepsy .... not necessarily bad ... but can help make medication decisions easier. Patients with these symptoms supposedly do well with meds like tegretol and valproic acid and klonopin. Another symptom of temporal lobe epilepsy is hyper-religiosity .... some scientists claim up to 50% of individuals heading religious groups have temporal lobe epilepsy. They have these auras .... visions .... experiences of God.

I does not sound like you are have something to this effect. But I thought I would throw it out there in case it helps.

Spike

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