Depression [Life advice]

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deadsource

L3: Member
Jul 11, 2011
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Thank you for sharing your experiences and advice everyone. Now I want to share with you all what I have found out. :)
Recently, I've found numerous stretch marks over my body, example:

I think that this is the cause of my depression. It's due to the increasment of hormones called Norepinephrine and Aldosterone.

Norepinephrine (from wiki):
As a stress hormone, norepinephrine affects parts of the brain, such as the amygdala, where attention and responses are controlled. Along with epinephrine, norepinephrine also underlies the fight-or-flight response, directly increasing heart rate, triggering the release of glucose from energy stores, and increasing blood flow to skeletal muscle. It increases the brain's oxygen supply. Norepinephrine can also suppress neuroinflammation when released diffusely in the brain from the locus coeruleus.
Aldosterone:
It plays a central role in the regulation of blood pressure mainly by acting on the distal tubules and collecting ducts of the nephron, increasing reabsorption of ions and water in the kidney, to cause the conservation of sodium, secretion of potassium, increased water retention, and increased blood pressure.

I've always had been scared to communicate with people. I always wanted to run away. I thought that I was physically ill. But now I think that it's all these hormones fault. I always had a high hearth rate and high blood pressure when I had to be around people (at school, in the city, at the hospital). That's why I always felt so uneasy and sick around them. I start panicking and want to run away from everyone.
When I was hospitalized a few months back, they didn't find anything unusual in my blood. But now I've sent my blood samples to the capital city, concerning these stretch marks. And guess what they found. I think you already know- they found that there were huge amounts of the hormones mentioned above. Now I'll send my blood samples again to have them investigated even more and then maybe they'll come to a conclusion for a way on how to lower these hormones.
I am sure that these hormones are at fault for my depression. They didn't allow me to live a normal social life and that's why I became so depressed.

It feels like I've invented the wheel...
 

All-Star

L1: Registered
Jun 5, 2013
35
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deadsource you should get dirt3 and play!Thats a new hobby and hope you get better!

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