<VV> The mind is a machine? (no corvair)

[Ray R. (aka Grymm)]

I have some serious psych issues and I'm the type of guy who does a lot of 
research to learn about the problem and try find ways to make it better.... 
I have some problematic health issues that have been present much of my life 
that it turns out are most likely very closely related.  Check this out!

It's amazing when you start to actually track the connections between 
various problems... it really demonstrates how the human body is a machine, 
and the mind is part of it  (the ECM if you will =)

I have severe bi-polar disorder

My body temperature averages 1 to 2 degrees below average.. which has been 
linked to psych disorders.  I once viewed a monitor with an infrared camera 
aimed at myself    and the room full of people I was in...  Everyone else 
was red with yellow patches on their face, I was yellow with a little red 
and blue patches where my sinuses are etc.  I visited the ER for back pain 
the other night and my temperature was recorded by the nurse as 96.7 degrees 
F.  By the way this was the first ER visit of my life.

I suffer from "reverse" SAD (seasonal affective disorder) where my 
depression cycle comes and extends through every summer... most likely it is 
a reaction to the increased exposure to sunlight or heat.. or both.  This 
year I've been avoiding the outdoors as much as possible, and keeping to a 
room with all windows blacked out and the AC set to 69F....  I've only had a 
few weeks of this treatment yet so it's too soon to say.. but so far I feel 
better than I have any summer in years.  Yesterday I was outdoors from 7AM 
till 9PM.. and today I'm miserable... of course it could be "psychosomatic 
symptoms"... difficult to endure.....

I have suffered for over 10 years from chronic abdominal pain.  I finally 
saw the doctor about this and now have a photo in my file of a "hiatal 
hernia"... this is generally caused by constipation which is often caused by 
stress... which is a symptom of my Bi-polar and SAD.

They also determined that I have IBS (irritable bowel syndrome). IBS is 
caused by the colon spasming abnormally... they believe this is caused by 
stress... which is a symptom of.. you got it.  Also constipation is one of 
the intermittent symptoms of IBS.. and constipation causes.... oh yeah... 
Hiatal Hernia's.....



So if I list off my diagnoses it sounds like Im a total hypocondriac (at 
least it does to a skeptic like me)... but if you look a little closer.. you 
can see it is all linked....  It is entirely possible that ALL of these 
problems could be traced back to the fact that I run an abnormally low body 
temperature.... how odd.

Ray "Grymm" Rodriguez III
Lake Ariel, PA
CORSA member
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