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WAG.... Murphy has moved on
raidem:
Wow. I know first hand the battle with a mental illness. It isn't fun.
I actually made some strides in finding out partially what is behind mine at least. Of course this is off topic but I hit my head during a swim meet when I was 16. I had mental breakdown at 19 due to OCD with computer games. But recently, I went to neurologist who in her infinitely wisdom had me go through a sleep study. She found sleep apnea, both obstructive and central apneas with severe oxygen desaturations as low as 83%. So, I've had a chronic apnea problem for some time, possibly due to me hitting my head. I go back to see my neurologist early next month.
The other peculiarities with the sleep study is I had no stage 3 sleep and I had a high Rest Disturbance Index of 17. I'm going to be getting a BIPAP to help me breath better at night. Hopefully that will help. I've had insomnia for a very long time so I'm thinking some of these apneas most likely go back to when I was 16 and I'm 38 now. I'll point out that the obstructive apneas are airway blockages whereas central apneas are a glitch between/in central nervous system and respiratory muscles.
So now, maybe some of my crazy theories and behavior at times previously should be viewed through the lens of a psychiatric patient who has chronic oxygen desaturations.
Mira:
--- Quote from: raidem on June 23, 2018, 09:57:01 PM ---Wow. I know first hand the battle with a mental illness. It isn't fun.
I actually made some strides in finding out partially what is behind mine at least. Of course this is off topic but I hit my head during a swim meet when I was 16. I had mental breakdown at 19 due to OCD with computer games. But recently, I went to neurologist who in her infinitely wisdom had me go through a sleep study. She found sleep apnea, both obstructive and central apneas with severe oxygen desaturations as low as 83%. So, I've had a chronic apnea problem for some time, possibly due to me hitting my head. I go back to see my neurologist early next month.
The other peculiarities with the sleep study is I had no stage 3 sleep and I had a high Rest Disturbance Index of 17. I'm going to be getting a BIPAP to help me breath better at night. Hopefully that will help. I've had insomnia for a very long time so I'm thinking some of these apneas most likely go back to when I was 16 and I'm 38 now. I'll point out that the obstructive apneas are airway blockages whereas central apneas are a glitch between/in central nervous system and respiratory muscles.
So now, maybe some of my crazy theories and behavior at times previously should be viewed through the lens of a psychiatric patient who has chronic oxygen desaturations.
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I am glad you made it though all of that... JMS respected Michael O'Hare's privacy so no one knew the truth. The word was put out that he was dropped because the network didn't think he was a big enough star, that the ratings would be better with someone else. I was hooked on the show from the beginning, and was really angry when he was dropped, as were a lot of fans. A few years ago there was a web site called The Babylon 5 that never was, it more or less gave out the original arc for the story which made much more sense considering the foreshadowing in season one. But yeah, way off topic..
raidem:
Well. Who knows, there is that guy in Cold Days that fed the Paranet the clues about the boats. He lives at home with his mom I think. He operates out of the basement. I think it is said he has a mental illness. Maybe he has undiagnosed sleep apnea as well.
If Dresden Files is going to be similar to the real world, there will be people with mental illness and with sleep apnea, whose behaviors are touched by oxygen desaturations at night :). I mean after all those head injuries, one would wonder if Harry doesn't have some sort of mild traumatic brain injury and sleep apnea to go with it. Same can be said for Cowl or other Wardens engaged in war. We have many veterans coming back from wars overseas with traumatic brain injuries and mental illnesses associated with either the stress and/or the head injury. The wardens most likely have had injuries either PTSD or direct injuries to their head; therefore it is likely they too experience mental illnesses and sleep apneas as well. It is a dangerous combination with their combat abilities. I mean it is comparable to putting a gun in the hands of mental ill patient undergoing active psychosis. It isn't a safe thing to do.
Mira:
--- Quote from: raidem on June 24, 2018, 12:19:07 PM ---Well. Who knows, there is that guy in Cold Days that fed the Paranet the clues about the boats. He lives at home with his mom I think. He operates out of the basement. I think it is said he has a mental illness. Maybe he has undiagnosed sleep apnea as well.
If Dresden Files is going to be similar to the real world, there will be people with mental illness and with sleep apnea, whose behaviors are touched by oxygen desaturations at night :). I mean after all those head injuries, one would wonder if Harry doesn't have some sort of mild traumatic brain injury and sleep apnea to go with it. Same can be said for Cowl or other Wardens engaged in war. We have many veterans coming back from wars overseas with traumatic brain injuries and mental illnesses associated with either the stress and/or the head injury. The wardens most likely have had injuries either PTSD or direct injuries to their head; therefore it is likely they too experience mental illnesses and sleep apneas as well. It is a dangerous combination with their combat abilities. I mean it is comparable to putting a gun in the hands of mental ill patient undergoing active psychosis. It isn't a safe thing to do.
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I think cumulative head trauma is very common among athletes who play contact sports. Those who play football also tend to be very large, which seems to if not cause sleep apnea, aggravate it, there is increasing evidence that this causes a form of dementia as well other forms mental illness.. I think this is a problem that is only going to grow in the coming years.. As to a certain wizard we all know and love, he has had a lot of head injury, however he isn't overweight as far as we know, so who knows, he may have sleep apnea...
raidem:
well there is a distinction between obstructive sleep apnea and central apnea. From the little I've looked into it, obstructive is things that obstruct the airway. So, this would most likely be because of weight issues, circumference of neck, contour of air passages, etc. Central apnea however signifies some glitch within/between CNS and respiratory muscles. So, I think head trauma can very well damage parts of the CNS involved in respiration. I think this was my case. I'm sure however there are other causes of central apnea but I tend to believe that it is associated directly with that hit on the head during the swim meet. Or if not directly then at least indirectly, via post susceptibility to illness, medication to treat mental illness caused or exacerbated by head injury, etc...Or, it may be something genetic.
My aunt has cerebral palsy. She had cerebral hemorrhage around time of birth, it is believed. My grandparents believe it to be associated with Forceps. Anyways, there might be a connection there with central apnea, or not. She never learned to speak. I learned to speak later at around age of mid 3's.
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