Chemistry
Of Feelings
Feeling
if you look up in dictionary for the
word feeling, You will find two meaning one of them physical
which is sensation involving perception by touch. the second is emotional which
is the susceptibility to emotional response
Chemistry
is the science of composition,
structure, properties and reaction of matter
Autonomic nervous
system is part of vertebrate
nervous system that regulate involuntary actions
Do you see any relation between the three terms
Lets go back to heart again
Heart is full of
blood also it is full of feelings. Blood as we know the elixir of life after
water . It ischemical( biological) substance , and there are a lot of chemical
reactions to purify blood
Can we say that feelings are the same? for physical feelings like touch , this
is controlled throughnervous system. There are chemical materials in nerve
endings which control these feelings.But emotional feelings like fear,
anger , love ,etc
Normal & abnormal
Look..!
If I tell you now that there a snake under
your table
I
can hear your heart beats very loud .! This is a normal
physiological reaction which controlled
through
some chemical
materials like adrenaline which increases heart rate
But if you always checking bed
before sleep for snakes many times in one night , this is may be a
pathological one , looks like some kind of obsession. May
be you are in need to see your
psychiatrist
Depression
we
just look for one example to understand this subject we are talking about
, The abnormal reaction
It is depression , we can define depression by change in personal mood that may
be associated with insomnia , social withdrawal ,apathy fatigue , loss of
interest , and feeling of hopelessness. It is a normal part of life . It is also
emotional response to failure to achieve or maintain values Depression is due to
imbalance of certain neurotransmitters which are chemicals in brain that
transmit messages between nerve cells like serotonin and norepiephrine.Recently I attend psychiatry conference one of speaker
was Prof. Ahmed Okasha The famous
psychiatrist in The Middle East ,He said that Depression
disorders of the human race. Ancient Egyptians six thousands years ago
recognized depression and is one of the most ancient and common
located it in the heart as shown in Eber's papyrus. WHO report year 2000
showed that every year
there is one million suicides and 70% are suffering
from depression . untreated major depression is
a risk factor in developing coronary artery disease
through the influence of stress and subsequent
increased sympathetic tone
Emotions
This
term commonly used to
tell us about subjective feelings
which dictate moods .in psychology , emotion is considered a response to stimuli
that involves some physiological changes- like increase in pulse rate. (
Columbia encyclopedia) for more knowledge click the link
The Emotional
Brain
you are walking through the
woods,and you see a coiled shape lying across you path.Instantly--before
you even think ''a snake!' --you brain begins to respond fearfully.Fear is an
ancient emotionthat is involved in a number of mental disorders, say
neuroscientist Joseph leDoux,Ph.D.,of New York University. His research and that
of other scientist ,reported at the 24th Mathilde Solowey lecture in the
Neurosciences at the National Institutes of Health on May 8,1997,has shown that
the fear response has been tightly conserved in evolution , and probably follows
much the same pattern in humans and other vertebrates
According to LeDoux,he and others
are making progress in tracing the brain circuitry underlying the fear
response.Research attention is now focused on the amygdala,
a small almond-shaped structure deep inside the brain. A portion of the
amygdala known as the lateral nucleus appears to
play a key a role in fear conditioning -- an experimental procedure in which an
animal--is taught to fear a harmless stimulus such as a sound tone. The
conditioning is accomplished by pairing the tone with a mild electrical shock to
the animal's foot .After a few times 'the animal comes to exhibit defensive
responses whenever it hears the tone. These response include freezing(remainig
motionless)and elevation of blood pressure
Can
we control our feelings
What was the
last time you play football match
Athletes can
control their heart rate to save effort, this can be done through
Did you hear about people have got supernatural
phenomena
HOW GREAT IS OUR LORD
DO you remember that day you got made with your boss but you didn't show this!
Not because you are
afraid, But because you are good! This matter will be easy if you have some
training lets see how in
prevention topic
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