I had one parent with it… So that was one strike against me.
Ahhh, so you have more to deal with Chris. I am so sorry that you were bullied. Because my son also had Tourette’s and coprolalia plus being bipolar, we chose to not send him to school. We just made experiences and educational materials available to our son, and he taught himself in an extremely informal manner. He then just took the GED exams and aced them. I think attending school would have been extremely difficult for him.
And yes, having a bipolar parent is difficult. I am happy that neither my husband nor myself are bipolar.
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Thank you!
What is coprolalia?
I tried to quit school in 10th grade when things got REALLY REALLY bad ( bullying wise) but my mother made me stick with it and I got to skip the 11th grade and go straight to 12th the next year so I would graduate with the right age group.
My mom got diagnosed Bipolar a couple years after me. ( like 6 or 7 years later)
Only 15% of people who have Tourette’s have coprolalia, but TS is still often referred to as a swearing disorder. My son would yell out swear words, racist words etc. If he thought of any inappropriate word or gesture his brain would make him yell the word or make the gesture along with barking, and other more minor noises. He had more physical tics than one can imagine. Those were interesting times.
OHHH now I understand… Its those people that yell out “F***!, S***!, Damn!” in one breath.
I’ve never witnessed it before in person, but I’ve seen that kind of stuff portrayed on television before.
I bet it would be interesting to be in a store and all of a sudden hear what I said above!
No, it is not true that we have T2 because “we were Fat Axxes who ate wrong and didn’t put in as much effort to exercise” . It is agreed by all of the experts (including many TD users) that we are fat Axxes, we are evil, and we deserve everything we get.
It has been scientifically proven that even the mice who become T2 under experimental conditions are more evil than other mice.
What if one of the ways the genetic defects(s) help to cause T2 is by altering our eating drives (quite likely, in fact)? Doesn’t the abnormal strength of the physical drive mitigate to some extent my moral guilt?
Interesting. Abnormal strength of drives is considered a mitigating factor in death penalty hearings in the United States, but not in the moral guilt hearings held by the ADA, TD, etc.
People,
hasn’t any one of you ever done anything wrong by choice, but with some influence of outside forces? Maybe under the influence of stress caused by bullying, or even just simple habit?
Ever snapped at anyone because you were tired, or the air conditioner wasn’t working?
Don’t you use this partial causation as an excuse when judging yourselves?
Would you want to be judged as you are judging us? Do you think your dual system judging is legitimate, or decent?
Look,I know the difficulty of being overweight and losing weight. I was born overweight lol! I have been overweight my whole life even in high school when I ate one meal a day and I was in body conditioning, gymnastics and belonged to a gym.
Why can someone smoke to the age of 100 and never get cancer and another gets it at the age of 40. But our eating patterns significantly influence our health for everyone whether you are diabetic or not.
What I am saying is just because something is genetic, it doesn’t mean it has to happen. You also might not be able to stop it, but you might also be able to stop it.
But there is something we have some control over and that’s what we eat. I am saying if type 2 diabetes is prevalent in your family then you know you are at high risk. And if you can change your A1c after by how you eat, and people do all the time by changing their eating pattern, then you can certainly change it before you have a problem.
This is significant because say both parents are type 2 diabetics, the childs odds are really high they will get type 2 diabetes. Do you raise your kid eating dessert with every meal or do you raise your kid that something like that could make you sick earlier in life and by eating healthier you might delay or stop that from happening?
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Well, this got a bit hot. I am of the school of thought that
- Type 2 diabetes mellitus has a genetic root cause.
- This predisposes cellular receptors to resist the attachment of insulin.
- Blood glucose elevates, while cells are starving. This causes an increase of appetite (polyphagia). Polyphagia is a symptom of undiagnosed type 1 DM for a different reason, the lack of insulin.
- Excess glucose is taken up by the liver and if high enough is excreted by the kidneys , damaging them, with some converted into fat.
I was never diagnosed with reactive hypoglycemia, but I am absolutely sure that I had it my whole life. I just thought everyone felt like that when hungry, but it’s not being hungry but hangry. I self medicated with a Coke and a candy bar if I had the money or a piece of buttered bread with plain white sugar sprinkle on it.
I think that in some cases of reactive hypoglycemia the persons are insulin resistant. Sensing a rise in BG insulin is secreted, but doesn’t come down fast enough. Beta cells go into hyperdrive dumping even more insulin which causes a hypo. Rinse, repeat, rinse, repeat.
I am convinced that my self-treating hypos overworked my Beta cells, increased insulin resistance, blood glucose levels, weight gain and ultimately to type 2 DM.
One further thought, when muscle cells are starving for glucose, their preferred fuel, there is fatigue. It doesn’t matter if caused by a lack of insulin or insulin resistance.
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I am going through #3 right now… I can eat and within 2 hours sometimes I am just STARVING or sometimes its just regular hungry.
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