Can Sex be Medicine?

ripstick · #1 02-02-2009, 05:41 PM

So I'm crazy. I have a chemical imbalance in my brain and on occassion it makes me seem like I have a personality disorder. My sisters all suffer from it too but they're both on medication, I am not.

Every so often my brain will tell me that I am feeling an emotion I can't relate to. I can be completely, utterly happy with my life and everything going on, but my brain my tell me I'm immensely sad or angry or afraid. These foreign emotions kinda take over and push whatever I'm really feeling, what I'm supposed to be feeling, out of my head, so all that's left is the awful feelings. Trust me it sucks. Just imagine sobbing, and screaming and being in actual physical pain because you feel so sad, but you know you're not.

Sex helps. It helps alot. On days where I'm getting alot of sex, I won't have these lil episodes. The first few months my boyfriend and I were together and fucking like rabbits, I didn't have them at all. Actually the first time my boyfriend saw me like that was when I was really ill for two weeks and we couldn't have sex. I thought the weeping and saddness was just a part of being sick but lately I've changed my mind.

Our sex life has slowed down lately and I find I'm depressed alot more. Just last night I started weeping for no reason whatsoever and couldn't stop for 20 minutes. I think sex helps with my depression as weird as it sounds. Sex gives me such an intense rush of euphoria that my depression disappears, til I get my next dose.

I'm I crazy thinking this way? Or is there some logic to my theory? Can sex be medicine? And if so, where do I get a prescription?

**Euda** · #2 02-02-2009, 05:53 PM

It sounds like it simply distracts you and brings you back to reality, until your mind starts to function again.

Anima Mundi · #3 02-02-2009, 05:58 PM

Prescription right here

Ever try depression medicine?

ripstick · #4 02-02-2009, 06:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Johnathon Doerty

Prescription right here

Ever try depression medicine?

I thought about it many many times. But I really don't want to numb myself. I like who I am and despite a crazy crying fit once in awhile, I'm a happy person.

xilikeeggs0 · #5 02-02-2009, 06:18 PM

I'm always in a better mood right after I get laid.

wit · #6 02-02-2009, 06:30 PM

I couldn't resist posting this link. Clicky.

Yes. Yes it can.

Anima Mundi · #7 02-02-2009, 06:41 PM

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Originally Posted by ripstick

I thought about it many many times. But I really don't want to numb myself. I like who I am and despite a crazy crying fit once in awhile, I'm a happy person.

I'd look into it if I were you. I'm not, but I still think you should.

**Euda** · #8 02-02-2009, 06:55 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKTG05rw2iw

Thecosmicexplosion · #9 02-02-2009, 07:02 PM

Stop being a bitch, you control your mind tell it what to do.

Oh wait you're a woman, get on drugs and find a big strong man to take care of you.

Problem solved

Death Snuggle · #10 02-02-2009, 07:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Thecosmicexplosion

Stop being a bitch, you control your mind tell it what to do.

Oh wait you're a woman, get on drugs and find a big strong man to take care of you.

Problem solved

You deserve a sledge hammer to the back of the skull in rapid succession.

Controlling one's mind is all but impossible when rogue emotions/voices/personalities get involved. I know from quite a bit of experience. I'm like you in a sense except I lack some basic emotions. Sex makes me closer to feeling human again instead of a rampaging psychopath like usual.

Thecosmicexplosion · #11 02-02-2009, 07:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Death Snuggle

You deserve a sledge hammer to the back of the skull in rapid succession.

Controlling one's mind is all but impossible when rogue emotions/voices/personalities get involved. I know from quite a bit of experience. I'm like you in a sense except I lack some basic emotions. Sex makes me closer to feeling human again instead of a rampaging psychopath like usual.

No, if it's in your damn mind you have complete control over it. Provided under circumstances above it becomes more difficult but I guess that is the diffrence between you and I

MartialShot · #12 02-02-2009, 07:11 PM

Suddenly this EVERYTHING. Like seriusoly its so much more obviuos now but if noone else gets it then Ill take the liberty. You have a massive chemical imbalance in your body that probably stimulates the pre-frontal lobe, Iam guessing you are also heavily influenced by music etc. Anyways basically its a condition I dont have the name of near by but tonight if Iam bored I'll bust out my parents medical books and take a look through. Anyways with the massive wave of chemicals focusing on this area you more then likely are also lacking some endorphins for stimulation of happiness etc. In conclusion your just kinda fucked up chemically, your not a perfect whore like everything thinks.

Death Snuggle · #13 02-02-2009, 07:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Thecosmicexplosion

No, if it's in your damn mind you have complete control over it. Provided under circumstances above it becomes more difficult but I guess that is the diffrence between you and I

You also don't have legions of voices that never shut up. No matter what you do someone's always pissed off at something up there or trying to get you to do something. Could you fathom a mind that never stops thinking about the most base pointless things and making them feel like they are life and death situations where you could snap and kill everyone with out a second thought all because you can't decide what you want to eat for lunch?

Death_Merchant · #14 02-03-2009, 01:19 AM

I bet you masturbation doesn't fix it though, right? You have a dopamine imbalance. If I may say so, I think that you are a person who doesn't easily connects to others, and has a subconscious issue. The sadness you feel, you could probably equate it to how you'd feel if you felt completely alone. Feels like nobody understands the way you think sometimes, I'm guessing. The worst part about this problem is that it's probably a downward spiral once it starts. I say this, because I can imagine this mental state very well. The more you feel sad and don't understand it, the further you feel you're disconnecting with others around you. That's why when you have sex, you feel part of something again, which releases dopamine. People get this same release from singing as a group at church, which is why people leave church feeling good, when they take an active part that is. I will tell you this, it's likely learned from family members, and it's not likely your chemicals that are fucked up because of some physical abnormality.

My suggestion, seek out group therapy. I think if you go to a group session, and take an active part, you'll realize that you aren't really alone in these problems. That alone will start helping you recover. Learning how to reverse the tail spins is what your ultimate goal is going to be. That's a little trickier, but intense introspection about your life is really key to this. It's hard though, cause we naturally never want to stare the ugliness inside us in the face.

ObsidianZ · #15 02-03-2009, 01:38 AM

Lack of dopamine = Parkinson's Disease.

Jus' sayin'....

*ObZ

Shaggy · #16 02-03-2009, 01:56 AM

Yes. I've been sick as a dog, had some pick me up sex, and felt amazing for a good two hours afterward. Then I'm just sick again. =(

skinny love · #17 02-03-2009, 02:03 AM

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Originally Posted by ObsidianZ

Lack of dopamine = Parkinson's Disease.

Jus' sayin'....

*ObZ

actually a lack of serotonin = parkinson's.

serotonin is responsible for schizophrenia as well.

Silverfuck · #18 02-03-2009, 02:06 AM

Whoa, one of my best friends told me today that's she's going through a similar thing. Even though she's totally happy with her life she randomly has these bouts of depression and anger that she knows aren't how she should feel. But she said that her libido is all but dead because of it. Weird.

aliveupboy · #19 02-03-2009, 02:25 AM

^Could be a seasonal depression thing. Sometimes that happens to people in the winter.

Oh and OP, Hmmm, instead of asking the expert neurologists of the love lust and relationships community maybe you should go to a fucking doctor. Its obviously genetic, and you obviously have it.

MartialShot · #20 02-03-2009, 02:29 AM

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Originally Posted by aliveupboy

^Could be a seasonal depression thing. Sometimes that happens to people in the winter.

Oh and OP, Hmmm, instead of asking the expert neurologists of the love lust and relationships community maybe you should go to a fucking doctor. Its obviously genetic, and you obviously have it.

Fuck you live in Ontario....shit now we have to kill eachother

ObsidianZ · #21 02-03-2009, 02:30 AM

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Originally Posted by skinny love

actually a lack of serotonin = parkinson's.

serotonin is responsible for schizophrenia as well.

Dopamine

*ObZ

skinny love · #22 02-03-2009, 02:32 AM

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Originally Posted by ObsidianZ

Dopamine

*ObZ

both are linked to parkinson's.

ripstick · #23 02-03-2009, 03:14 AM

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Originally Posted by aliveupboy

^Could be a seasonal depression thing. Sometimes that happens to people in the winter.

Oh and OP, Hmmm, instead of asking the expert neurologists of the love lust and relationships community maybe you should go to a fucking doctor. Its obviously genetic, and you obviously have it.

The doctors here suck. I mean like horribly. Last time I went to get a physical the doctor hurt me so bad I cried.

Also shrinks are no good. My mother sent me to them when I was younger and I just fucked with them. There was one shrink that was so dumb I ran the sessions. It would be 2 hrs of me asking her about her family and her issues.

aliveupboy · #24 02-03-2009, 03:17 AM

"doctors here", you're in fucking canada. You have no excuse. If your town has shitty doctors then just go to a walk in clinic and ask to be referred to a specialist somewhere else. You have access to free health care, most of which does not suck. I suggest you use it.

AnalHerpes · #25 02-03-2009, 04:41 AM

Shrinks in general aren't that useful. Just because these people haven't read studies on a disorder doesn't mean that they're intimately familiar with them and can truly understand the people who have them.

A lot of things people don't think about can affect their mood. Things like physical health or substance use.

Do you smoke cigarettes? For some reason I can feel really depressed if I smoke, like I just came to the sudden realization that my life sucks for no reason. I should probably quit but I'm kind of too stupid to. It's strange because this doesn't always happen, just sometimes.

The English Gentleman · #26 02-03-2009, 05:02 AM

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Originally Posted by AnalHerpes

Shrinks in general aren't that useful

Shut your blasphemous blue collar job working mouth...

JoePedo · #27 02-03-2009, 05:20 AM

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Originally Posted by ripstick

Every so often my brain will tell me that I am feeling an emotion I can't relate to. I can be completely, utterly happy with my life and everything going on, but my brain my tell me I'm immensely sad or angry or afraid.

Perfectly normal part of human experience. You may do it a lot more often or

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Originally Posted by ripstick

Trust me it sucks. Just imagine sobbing, and screaming and being in actual physical pain because you feel so sad, but you know you're not.

...more signifigantly than most. Definately... but to at least a degree, this will almost certainly happen to everyone at least once between the time they're born and the time they die.

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Originally Posted by ripstick

Sex helps. It helps alot. On days where I'm getting alot of sex, I won't have these lil episodes...

. Just last night I started weeping for no reason whatsoever and couldn't stop for 20 minutes. I think sex helps with my depression as weird as it sounds. Sex gives me such an intense rush of euphoria that my depression disappears, til I get my next dose.

Oxytocin, incidentally, is an anoxilytic.

The fact that I'm probably spelling anoxylitic wrong has nothing to do with the point. The major interchange between depressive and anxiety disorders, well... somewhat is. 'n for you laypeople out there, "anxiety disorders" go way beyond panic attacks... OCD (which, including obtrusive thoughts or feelings as it does, this is technically a unique subset under), combat-related and/or environmentally mediated anger disorders not induced by mass traumatic brain injury...

...turns out it's a huge field.

The amygdala (which is switched the fuck off - the way it should be - by sex, love, MDMA, and really chill hippie philosophies) has projections into fucking everything. It can destroy your nucleus accumbens in one burst. It can direct-write to the hippocampal tissue with an intensity so fuctardedly beyond the normal operations of memory as to fuck people up for a long-ass time. It can switch off the VTA. Pretty much completely. It can ablate your entire prefrontal cortex in a single tantrum.

...and god knows what exactly it's doing in the cingulate, but it has definate projections to it.

As prior mentioned, 5HT1A-mediated hippocampal projections of oxytocic neuronal tissue into the amygdala is... umm, basically the only fucking off switch this destructive process has. 'n we're lucky it's a damned brutally efficient sort of shutdown response, which is why social connections can drastically increase and improve outcomes in traumatic natural disasters (war, hurricane, earthquake, catholic school... you name it).

As you might have guessed, a good fucking mostly dumps a lot of oxytocin. Almost half of everything else it dumps is a direct byproduct of dumping a lot of oxytocin - oxytocic inhibition of endorphin breakdown leading to the release of dopamine blah yadda yadda.

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Originally Posted by ripstick

I'm I crazy thinking this way?

Medically, the answer to that question is whether it "causes distress or a decrease in functioning"...

...you be the judge. But don't worry about it. Shit with a definition doesn't mean anything other than the definition. Shit without a definition, btw, is worthless... but that's another tangent.

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Originally Posted by ripstick

Or is there some logic to my theory?

No logic. Just molecules. Particle/atomic/molecular physics needs no reason other than its existance to exist...