Posted by Jack Boyd on February 02, 1999 at 12:42:47:
In Reply to: Do we "Need Our Pain?" posted by Anonymous on February 02, 1999 at 10:33:58:
Psychobabble at its worst.
Medicine is full of this kind of stuff - the best minds in medicine told us for many years that ulcers were a reult of unabated stress - oops! now they say it is a simple infection that can be treated rather easily.
When I am in a cluster cycle I have alternating feelings of dread and euphoria - others on this site have expressed the same thing - I do know that it is a very emotional time for me.
In my humble opinion clusters are entirely physiological and there is no psychological component.
The meurotransmitters that seem to go out of whack ( serotonin among others )happen to also be mood regulators. Mood changes are more of an effect than a cause of clusters.