At the risk of sounding like a hypochondriac...
I wonder if my Graves' Disease symptoms were/are psychosomatic... Hmmm... http://www.psychosomaticmedicine.org/cgi/content/full/61/2/131 Apparently stress can make a mess of the endocrine system and that includes the pituitary & thryoid... I was working in a highly stressful job, before I left for another stressful job...
http://books.google.com/books?id=igJQNQauIqAC&pg=PT239&lpg=PT239&dq=hyperthyroid+ptsd+child+abuse&source=web&ots=9mfUa-kiog&sig=t2N_cqQo-LsgN9i7BA-EDHeqAPk
The hippocampus can shrink because of PTSD: does this explain why all three of us siblings have terrible memory capacity, as do both my parents who both had their own childhood traumas... ?? Or do we all just have really bad memory capacity for other reasons... ?? I also wonder if our psychic traumas can really be compared to physical trauma.
Alzheimer's does run in the family on my dad's side... I've read about protein/peptide deposits in brain cells (saw on TV results from studies on former football players & wrestlers) from a lifetime of concussions that if you build up enough you can be more susceptible to dementia. Maybe my family is genetically predisposed to have excelerated amounts of that or similar protein build-ups: perhaps a lifetime of emotional/mental stress can cause proteins/damage as much as physical damage.
Mar 2nd: I spoke with my brother R on Sunday: he was talking to me about our poor memory... He said that we siblings all have bad memories probably because we all (all of us siblings) blocked out things from events in our childhood (he feels mostly things from our mother) and that is how we learned how to be forgetful, so I suppose there is something to that possibility.
Well, either that or I'm re-inventing the wheel or I'm a hypochondriac. LOL
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