[Anjae]

Interesting. But, in the end, the only thing that worked and allowed for balance was a med. A lot of pain and discussion would had been avoided if the lady had stick to the one pill a day from the start.

But that lady is miles away from our MLCers. Our MLCers didn't snap right after they got at job at the age of 27 (and isn't 27 a little to late for a fist psychotic episode?).

[MyBrainIsBroken]

Attaching (late)

[Anjae]

This are amazing news.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2991149/Hope-Alzheimers-sufferers-scientists-developing-treatment-RESTORE-memory-loss.html - Hope for Alzheimer's sufferers with scientists developing a treatment to RESTORE memory loss

from the article:
"Australian scientists have made a major breakthrough in treating Alzheimer's with a new drug-free method that can restore memory loss.

Researchers at the University of Queensland's Brain Institute hope to be able to trial their new 'cheap and mobile' ultrasound device within two years on humans.

The treatment attacks the neurotoxic amyloid plaques that cause memory loss and cognitive failure with ultrasound waves."

[Ready2Transform]

Wooohooo!! 

[Anjae]

Now I will be looking for breakthrough news on MLC. I still think it is possible to mitigate it, maybe even treat it.

Since for me MLC is not a question of FOO issues (those end up coming into the mix because of the brain/hormonal mess), but of hormones, high stress levels being number one, and the changes that are done to the brain, it has to be possible to, at the very least, mitigate it.

Maybe in a similar way of this discovery for Alzheimer's, but aimed at the brain parts affected when one is having a MLC.

I know, I'm a dreamer. With a certain level of degree of faith in science as well as in holistic approaches. Combined they can provide good results for something like MLC.

[Ready2Transform]

You know I'm right there with you, Anjae.  To me, I think the key is being able to recognize it at the onset.  Like with bipolar mania, once one is 'fully in', there's no rationalizing with them that there's a problem, because their brains no longer perceive it.  But outside of mania, a bipolar person can clearly see the irrationality of their thoughts and actions during that time.  That's when the change and treatment can happen, to keep the mania from coming on.  Mania typically lasts a LOT shorter than replay - so there's more opportunity to mitigate damages within a shorter time.  Trickier with what we're dealing with, whatever it is.

There are so many smaller issues that the MLCer may or may not be aware of (I know Hoss was googling his symptoms and ultimately sought psychiatric care, but the 'big picture' wasn't taken into account, just the small things that enabled him to be herded through the process quickly).  To tie the fight or flight to the hypersexuality to the personality changes, I think, will take a broader discussion culturally, and changing opinions about what MLC means.  Maybe that's where us creatives will come in - we have the means to start communicating things to the public through the arts and media that the medical world doesn't.

[MyBrainIsBroken]

I agree with you two, Anjae and R2T. MLC takes too long and destroys too many lives. I think it should be called MLCC for Midlife Crisis Complex because there are so many factors involved.

[kikki]

Fantastic news!  Yes, yes, yes and yes to all that you said.

[Blackhen]

Wow!

[Anjae]

For the board neuroscience geeks and curious, Coursera has a new neuroscience course: Understanding the Brain -The Neurobiology of Everyday Life.  https://www.coursera.org/course/neurobio

The course is free and even if one does not wants to do the tests one can just audit the lectures. It a ten weeks long course that has already started. This one is difficult, but extremely interesting.