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jchung01@brynmawr.edu's picture

drugs...drugs..and more drugs...

My question is that if the brain and behavior or brain and our spirits are not linked, then why do we get so depressed after using drugs like E and wasting all of our serotonin so that we are deprived of our happy hormones and cannot control how we feel?

Also, doctors are able to tweak our feelings and thoughts by usage of different chemicals that trigger different chemicals and hormones from our own nervous system.  And those who are extremely O.D-ed, start to hallucinate and make up their own images in their heads.  What are those images and are they actually existent or not existent?

But before I ramble again, I wanted to point out that I feel that the brain and human behavior is all controlled by the body's chemical response and that (although some may think that it is depressing) we are an extremely elaborate system that is controlled by hormone levels in response to inner/outer influences.

 

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