| From: | Fhaolan arkemp@*****.ca |
|---|---|
| Subject: | [OT] Emotional Conditions |
| Date: | Wed, 17 Feb 1999 23:27:45 -0800 |
>Starrngr writes:
>You sure?? *shrug* I dunno... I'm not diabetic, I don't know any diabetics
>personally, and I'm not really interested. But I did believe that it was the
>thyroid gland that produced insulin.
>
>Hmm... yep, it's the pancreas that produces insulin. So what does the
>thyroid gland do that got me mixed up? Hmm... growth hormones (was that your
>problem, Star?), bodily function regulators, including heart beat (which is
>why there's the super-thyroid gland in SR). Ah, here it is... iodine! It
>creates radioactive iodine as a self-regulator, and problems with
>over-active thyroid glands (which are serious health problems, apparently)
>can be treated with radioactive iodine.
>
>And to link it all back in... an over active thyroid gland can cause severe
>depression! :)
>
>So, for the ObSR: are runners with superthyroid glands more likely to be
>depressed?
I can confirm that over-active and under-active thyroids can produce
serious heath problems, including accelerated 'aging' well as other
irregular metabolism problems. Depression is common with over-active
thyroid, while manic-like behavior is just as common from under-active
thyroid. For some strange reason, thyroid malfunctions are far, far more
common with women than men. Thyroid conditions are usually hereditary as well.
People who take thyroid medication for malfunctioning thyroids tend to get
easily depressed as well, because the exact balance of the medication is
very, very delicate, and the doctors tend to err on the side of over-abundance.
Also, if the thyroid completely dies, the symptoms are almost identical to
Altimers (sp?), and can be very easily mis-diagnosed as that, or simply as
senility, depending on how old the patient is.
-Fhaolan, who inherited his under-active thyroid problem from his mother,
who got it from her mother, and so on, and so on, back at least seven
generations according to the records.
