Posted by gary g on January 25, 1999 at 09:55:23:
In Reply to: Brain damage? posted by Mr. Andrea Luminati on January 24, 1999 at 21:31:56:
there was a lengthy discussion thread on just this a couple months ago - go back thru the archives & see if you can find it
oh yeah, you'd better believe the numb-dumbs set in
spaced out
staring into the distance
short term memory goes right....well I forget where, but it goes
3&2 equals 9 or something like that,
why do you ask
I think it's a combination of fatique & neural disruption, but mostly just fatigue
the energy these things consume is immense
be of good cheer
I ALWAYS get all fouled up mentally once a cluster has been going awhile
and I ALWAYS pull out of it very quickly after it goes into remission
can't say I get depressed during the clusters
(as I understand the nature of depression)
I sure get discouraged & bummed out
but I think there's way too much energy flying around for depression, as I read about it in the references
that's just me