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Do you think your moods are controlled by your brain chemistry or that your brain chemistry dictates your moods? Do you believe people are born with particular emotional temperaments or that they are primarily shaped by environmental factors?

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[info]amourdelamonde Writer's Block: Nature or nurture

Before being diagnosed with bipolar disorder, I did not believe that you could control moods with medicine or that moods were ever controlled by brain chemistry at all, but when I started to get more
 
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[info]bundleofjoy58 Writer's Block: Nature or nurture


I think the brain and one's moods work both ways together. When you're sleepy, sometimes you tend to get sad. When you become sad, sometimes it makes you sleepy. It can go either way. It also goes bot
 
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[info]cool_frood Writer's Block: Nature or nurture

I think that brain chemistry influences moods, and that moods influence brain chemistry. I think that they have a symbiotic relationship that is related to the genetic makeup of the brain.

I do believ
 
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[info]clarity3 Writer's Block: Nature or nurture

I am not sure about the first question as I am a little confused by it, but I believe people are born with particular emtional temperaments. If people in similair or the same situations act or react d
 
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[info]hani Writer's Block: Nature or nurture


Edit: I'm going to assume the first question meant moods controlling brain chemistry, or brain chemistry dictating moods. Thanks, Bridgett!

First question: I think brain chemistry tend
 
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[info]aki_the_wingly Writer's Block: Nature or nurture

Yes and no. 

I believe that there are people out there who do genuinely have problems with brain chemistry, and usually it's the people that will have those mood swings  and have no clue as t
 
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[info]stardreamr Writer's Block: Nature or nurture

I don't believe that our moods are controlled or dictated by something other than ourselves. When it comes down to it in the end, we still have choices to let ourselves slide into that mood or not. (T
 
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[info]basil80 Writer's Block: Nature or nurture


I can't help but think there is so much more involved here than anyone currently alive knows about that anything we say will someday be looked back upon and laughed at. I just don't think we know enou
 
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[info]maddisaurusrex Writer's Block: Nature or nurture

Well, I have a personal insight on this kind of thing. My mom is diagnosed Bipolar. And I was recently diagnosed with Bipolar II. I believe that your brain chemistry effects your moods. I've been to m
 
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[info]les_537 Writer's Block: Nature or nurture

I believe it's a little of both. While environmental factors certainly have their effects (for example, a kid growing up in a home where he feels no love is certainly going to have issues). But there
 
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[info]kilork65 Вопрос дня: Природа или воспитание


Я считаю, что мозговые процессы определяются моим настроением. Люди рождаются с предопределенным темпераментом.
 
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[info]lyagushka9g Вопрос дня: Природа или воспитание

Мы рождаемся готовенькими:и характер и поведение уже сформировано и темперамент тоже.Если бы наше настроение определялось химией, мы бы все были маразматиками, ведь природе всё равно что мы думаем и д
 
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[info]berkano Writer's Block: Nature or nurture
Do you think your moods are controlled by your brain chemistry or that your brain chemistry dictates your moods? Do you believe people are born with particular emotional temperaments or that they are
 
[info]benny5562 Writer's Block: Nature or nurture





I salute the person who submitted this question... It's the first good one I've seen in a while.

In short, my answers are yes, yes-to an extent, and yes.

Moods are often very much reliant on br
 
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[info]yohkowin_0124 Writer's Block: Nature or nurture

OMG, psychology question.
Both. We're born with some traits that come from our parents, and then this get shaped by the way we're raised and by sociaty structures.  We also learn traits throu
 
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[info]temptinalterego Writer's Block: Nature or nurture


We are all chemical beings, its what make us people. Atoms, cells, blood. Everything is a reaction to something else. We are constantly running off one chemical or anoter. We call them emotions and fe
 
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[info]yin_super_cna Writer's Block: Nature or nurture


I think we are born with like all moods and tempers the envirnmental factors and people we deal with just bring out some moods/tempers more than other moods/tempers...
 
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[info]glittering_sake Writer's Block: Nature or nurture

Yes. Yes to all of the above. Especially since the first part seems to be reworded but the exact same thing. Either way, no matter how you look at it, your brain and moods are tied together. Emotions

 
[info]stupidyellow14 Writer's Block: Nature or nurture

That's an interesting question. Some people definitely seem to have particular temperaments. I can get angry for seemingly no reason at all... Maybe it just seems that people have emotional issues bec
 
[info]signalex Вопрос дня: Природа или воспитание

Природа,она,Матушка!Все эти,из  древности добредшие сангвиники,холерики,меланхолики и флегматики,да еще и несуществующие в "чистом" виде,а только смешанном,вполне,как мне кажется,да и н
 
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[info]moonwindstarsky Writer's Block: Nature or nurture

 
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[info]retiredgod Вопрос дня: Природа или воспитание

Настроение - это и есть химический процесс в мозгу.
 
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[info]secretdream1991 Nature or nurture

I totally believe we are just born who we are and parents have to try and not screw us up. We are the person we are and things over time can change us but our roots are always there.
 
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[info]akureii Writer's Block: Nature Vs. Nurture.

'Do You Think Brain Chemistry Dictates Emotions Or That People
Are Born With Particular Emotional Temperaments? Or Do
You Think We Are Shaped Primarily By Environmental Factors?'

Hmmm, this is quite ch

 

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