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by numewhodis 589 days ago
> bipolar is absolutely incurable

For now, but I believe that once we can implant receptors in body and brain, we can inhibit "the flip" in the CNS/brain/memory.

I once had a bit of a phase back in the day and noticed that my slow swings were more like a flip of thinking patterns that body and brain slowly caught up with until I was the good, bad or ugly kind of 'manic'.

This lead me, after quite a few hops, to believe that something was up with either some transmitter producing organ or one of the metabolic pathways that trigger the production of some hormone/transmitter since uptake is also modulated in various places. And so I imagined synthetic receptors at organ x, much like a virus, that act as a counter-trigger.

To make another hop: my issue with meds always has been their insane lack of precision as well as their atomic side effects which can become troublesome later on, which is something we do have our eyes on, of course. It's all an ongoing progress.