Read Part One here. Read Part Two here. Part Three: You Are Not a Special Snowflake, or You Are Special Just Like Everybody Else We’d all like to think that our particular set of circumstances, challenges, disorders, strengths, whatever, make us a special case. And I won’t disagree with that. I’ll take it a step further. We are all bags of chemicals brought together by the forces of an entropic reality. Literally. The Big Bang happened and after millions of years some star stuff came together randomly and created carbon and voila, here we are as a species. And each individual is unique in our molecular structure and our chemical requirements for health. This is why I don’t say “Zoloft worked for me, so it will work for you.” That’s idiotic. Sure, it might. My brain is configured differently than your brain. It might be similar enough that the same dose of the same chemical might right the imbalance causing our ever present anxiety…but it might not. The variety of deficiencies that there might be is vast and once we decide that our mood disorders have a chemical component (which I suppose they all do because that is all we are, including our emotions…chemical reactions and electrical storms)…a chemical component that we can’t control ourselves simply with water and a positive attitude…we have to approach it like we’re chemists. What reactants result in what products? I will admit that the fact that I am a chemist helped me immensely in weathering the first weeks of Zoloft. I trusted in the scientific method, including the theory, hypothesis, and experiment. For me, the results fit the hypothesis. Lucky me.
Being the Best Version of Myself: Part Three
Being the Best Version of Myself: Part Three
Being the Best Version of Myself: Part Three
Read Part One here. Read Part Two here. Part Three: You Are Not a Special Snowflake, or You Are Special Just Like Everybody Else We’d all like to think that our particular set of circumstances, challenges, disorders, strengths, whatever, make us a special case. And I won’t disagree with that. I’ll take it a step further. We are all bags of chemicals brought together by the forces of an entropic reality. Literally. The Big Bang happened and after millions of years some star stuff came together randomly and created carbon and voila, here we are as a species. And each individual is unique in our molecular structure and our chemical requirements for health. This is why I don’t say “Zoloft worked for me, so it will work for you.” That’s idiotic. Sure, it might. My brain is configured differently than your brain. It might be similar enough that the same dose of the same chemical might right the imbalance causing our ever present anxiety…but it might not. The variety of deficiencies that there might be is vast and once we decide that our mood disorders have a chemical component (which I suppose they all do because that is all we are, including our emotions…chemical reactions and electrical storms)…a chemical component that we can’t control ourselves simply with water and a positive attitude…we have to approach it like we’re chemists. What reactants result in what products? I will admit that the fact that I am a chemist helped me immensely in weathering the first weeks of Zoloft. I trusted in the scientific method, including the theory, hypothesis, and experiment. For me, the results fit the hypothesis. Lucky me.