Posted by Snoshoe on
URL: https://www.es-forum.com/Symptom-relief-tp4023046p4023114.html

Oh yeah, and on the amygdala. I can't believe I hadn't looked this up before, that I can remember anyway, but there are NMDA receptors in 50% of the brain at least, so there is a lot of room for turning this stuff down, though I don't consider it a fix, but a relief.

~ Snoshoe

--- In [hidden email], Stephanie Smith <reader41@...> wrote:
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> Hi Snoeshoe
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> I experienced what you have written about here for the first time in the 5 years that I have known about being ES - a panic attack/racing heart combo in the middle of the night where I was awake for a good couple of hours in the middle of the night, unable to get back to sleep and aware of being subject to a frequency that was affecting my  body that I could feel and could also hear and also aware of the racing heart and panicy feeling that I objectively knew there was no cause for internal to me - it was the scariest night i have ever had and has left me feeling beyond exhausted. What you say about the amygdala is interesting - a couple of years ago I started to look into a little bit Ashok Gupta's stuff on "amygdala retraining" for ME/CFS - but didn't go much further with it because I didn't know whether it was just another form of "CBT" that Gupta was packaging up with yoga and meditatiion in order to make money. But I defintely believe the amygdala
>  has a role to play in all of this sickness. 
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> Steph
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