You could see the sadness in Robin Williams eyes, even when he smiled. He made me laugh a lot and I enjoyed some of his movies. A good many chronic diseases contribute to depression, such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and other inflammatory diseases, such as arthritis. Robin Williams did not appear to have a chronic disease, but there was that aortic operation that he had just a few years back. The operation is traumatic, but what it does to the brain is profound. The brain and upper circulatory system are almost a single organ. Altered blood flow and altered dynamics of sistolic and diastolic pressures, changes in heart rate variability, inflammation, releases cytokines from the damaged aortic tissues, these are all things that alter the state of the brain, its blood flow, and its nutrition. In the end, the brain is an organ, just like the liver or pancreas. A damaged or diseased organ does not work right, a damaged or diseased brain does not think right. Depression is a natural thing and may have kept our ancestors from killing one another during a hard winter in a cave. But, chronic depression is different; it MUST be a brain disease state to persist, it must recur through certain stimuli, and it must be maintained by an inability of the brain to heal from some damage or disease. Bacteria or viruses are possible causes too. I wrote a post some time ago that looked at depression. My take on it was, first heal the brain because a sick brain thinks sometimes sick thoughts. artdevanyonline/1/post/2012/12/depression-first-heal-the-brain.html
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 19:51:03 +0000
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