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   From: 19eimc_minus19@ozemail.com.au   
      
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   >   I was  thinking about how depression  might be a  vestigial urge to   
   > hibernate.   Think of this:  you face  a number  of events  leading to   
   > fight/flight urges which were impossible to execute. Hence you load up   
   > your serotonergic springs  but never fire them. Eventually  it is such   
   > an overload,  you just sleep it  off for the  winter.  Esp interesting   
   > that  hibernation  isn't  localised  on  the  evolutionary  tree,  but   
   > splattered throughout.   
      
   You might be ready to consider my concept of   
   "specific hibernation".   
      
   The meaning of specific hibernation is best understood if compared with   
   "general hibernation".   
      
   "General hibernation" corresponds to the classical, conventional meaning   
   of the word hibernation (and also, for this *metabolism muting* matter, of   
   the meaning of aestivation).   
      
   Specific (and/or synaptic) hibernation is an adaptation to IRREGULARLY   
   OCCURRING inescapable lifetime predicaments.   
   It is also a self-regulatory synaptic inhibitory function that prevents   
   the realization of the potential for self-defeatingly (or dinstinctly   
   maladaptive)   
   distress/pain or futile flight or fight type "actentions" - or ditto   
   "focuses   
   (or paying) of actention".   
      
   The fuel for such self-defeating actentions are the excitatory firing of   
   sensory processing neurons within the sensorium.   
      
   Free access of such sensory stimuli (such sensorially   
   monitored, analyzed, and sometimes dynamically retained, neural   
   representations of thus influential adverse environmental influences,   
   features,   
   and factors) to the "visceromotor motivating" hypothalamic areas, the basal   
   ganglia, and   
   the some limbic and frontal lobe cortices (regions responsible for   
   organizing and   
   motivating a wide range of actentions) is what would be maladaptive.   
      
   It is the specific synaptic gating and thereby prevention of transmission of   
   neural information that would energize certain potentially directly distress   
   driving   
   neurons' firing and that thereby keeps their metabolism relatively muted   
    (and silences their firing) that qualifies this function for being called   
   "specific hibernation".   
      
   "Specific hibernation imploring type situations" (or ditto stressors/sensory   
   stimulation)   
   are situations that in our phylogeny as well as in our own lives   
   could only be adaptively coped with if the genome and phenotype of thus   
   adversely   
   challenged individuals actually did *induce* a specific hibernation   
   involving type of   
   self-regulatory response.   
      
   This is to me a worthwhile way of describing and defining the kind of   
   *selective unconsciousness* (and other symptoms) that result from   
   *any kind* of survived "traumatization" - including cases of SHITS (come   
   CURSES)   
   that does not have future repercussions that trendy   
   psychologists/psychiatrists would   
   class as "PTSD".   
      
   P   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)