Cause and Effect
Wednesday, June 18th, 2003 12:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tamaranthAfter being suddenly savaged by a brief-but-intense headache yesterday -- not for the first time -- I'm starting to wonder if the day's-worth of black mood (with no apparent cause) before the headache was a kind of signal -- the way that some epileptics get warning signs of fits -- rather than a cause. I have certainly had headaches without the preceding mood swing, and moods without headaches. But this particular species of headache -- brief, migraine-ish, nauseating and (most distinctively) making me extremely sleepy -- only ever seems to happen after a meaningless mood swing.
I have another theory -- or question, at any rate.
It's a given that physical illnesses -- colds, 'flu, stomach bugs, bubonic plague etc -- are transmitted by viruses. Does this happen with mental / emotional conditions? (I'm thinking of the bouts of lowness which occasionally seem to prevail, rather than severe psychiatric conditions). If not, why not?
I have another theory -- or question, at any rate.
It's a given that physical illnesses -- colds, 'flu, stomach bugs, bubonic plague etc -- are transmitted by viruses. Does this happen with mental / emotional conditions? (I'm thinking of the bouts of lowness which occasionally seem to prevail, rather than severe psychiatric conditions). If not, why not?
