HIstories and Experience

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The stories here are poignant and troubling in some cases, and it is

certainly likely that life experiences do add to or increase troubles

of all sorts........I would like to say, though, that the vast

majority of humans with 4S have not suffered sexual or emotional

abuse, at least not severe abuse, to my knowledge, and it seems like

4S is, in my opinion based on 10 years of clinical practice, more

associated with physiologic changes in the brain and central nervous

system that seems to be triggered in many cases by the onset of

puberty, just at the front end.

I am seeing more people respond to the anti-obsessive compulsive

medications as opposed to anti anxiety or anti depressants.

The anti-obsessive ones seem to strike at the neural functions

closest to the areas where the reactions occur. Sometime a chemical

cocktail mix must be tried, too, and adjusted over time to provide

some relief.

So far, in my experience, the meds do not remove the physiologic

reaction or awareness, they simply calm down or delay the emotional

portions, the highly reactive behaviors that sometimes literally

dominate the person's life. (and their family's).

Ok.

Let's keep talking.

Marsha , M.S., CCC-A, FAAA