Posted by schleprock on September 17, 2012, at 22:24:17
In reply to You have not done any permanent brain damage! » schleprock, posted by Chris O on September 17, 2012, at 21:24:31
> I assure you. It sounds like classic anxiety disorder symptoms to me. I obsess about things like this all the time if I don't cognitively talk myself out of it. My anxiety is constantly present and needs but a hint of "permanent damage" to go whirling down the road to panic attack. Sounds like what's going on with you.
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> ChrisI agree that it may appear that this is mainly psychologically driven anxiety (and I have been obsessing about this for the past few months- hence my need to experiment in order to reassure myself by finally "ruling things out"), but the reality is, whether long term or not, the chemical did have some kind of effect on me. The anxiety that I felt building up during those weeks before my accidental exposure was a very familiar kind of anxiety (and I've been dealing with GAD for 20 years.) But what I've been dealing with over the months following that initial incident is some sort of variety of anxiety\depression with symptoms and sensations that are very atypical. That's what has me most concerned.
It's still likely that the bleach exposure isn't wholly responsible for the problems I've been having for the past few months, but the other night's experiment confirnmed that the chemical (when inhaled while smoking in an enclosed space) somehow plays some stimulating role in producing sensations equivalent with anxiety. I'm still really surprised that absent were pulminary effects (as I said, I didn't even smell the chemical.) I just don't understand how the chemical gained "access" to the physiological realm where anxiety\depression is produced.
I should probably ad that my initial GAD\depression was triggered by caffeine (and possibly mescaline), so I do have some manner of chemical sensitivity.
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