Depression: The Sixth Sense

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" Branislav " < wrote:

> Thank you . I've heard good things about that book, but I don't

> know if it tackles the cases such as mine? I live in a house where

no visible mold growth can be observed, no moldy smell, nothing

perceptible with five senses, yet since I'm so sensitive to even

small amounts of spores and mycotoxins I suffer from cross-

contamination all the time while other people aren't noticing

anything whatsoever and my stories seem like bad science fiction to

them.

>

Branislav, I just had to respond to your astute observation that

the five senses are not constructed to detect neurotoxic exposures.

I believe that this article will give you the clues that will tell

you how otherwise inexplicable " emotional responses " can be used as

indicators of the inflammatory response associated with

mycotoxin/neurotoxic exposures.

I have explained this in greater detail in the very old messages.

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http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/329/7457/112-b#69034

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Re: Depression - The Sixth Sense

The Era of blaming Depression on disordered thinking is at an end.

Depression is the Sixth Sense - it is a perceptual construct of

relevant information about immunological dysregulation.

Dantzer and Kelley, professors in the department of

animal sciences at the University of Illinois report in Medical News

Today 28 Jul 2004;

" Scientists build on case connecting inflammatory disease and

depression "

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?

newsid=11307 & nfid=rssfeeds

" For the first time, we have evidence of a strong relationship

between a molecular event and the development of psychopathology, "

Dantzer and Kelley have demonstrated that mice develope fever and

display sickness related behaviors when cytokines are administered

directly to the brain and that when neuronal pathways from the body

to the brain are severed, cytokines do not cause " sickness

behavior " .

People suffering from Depression have sent a clear and consistent

message to psychotheorists that their " sickness behaviors " are

actually due to sickness instead of the sickness arising from mental

attitudes or behavioral traits. Now there is proof.

Perhaps the psychotheorists can now turn their attention to

analyzing their own dysfunctional behaviors and determine how people

who demonstrate an obsessive preoccupation with theories of

psychological causality can fail to understand these clear and

simple words:

" We are Depressed because we are SICK - Not sick because we are

Depressed! "

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Competing interests: None declared

CDC News Release: Psychological Factors played no role in the

development of CFS following infection 10 October 2004

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