More on my medical condition and how bizarre it is.

The article I originally read, while dying in a mental institution from a different undiagnosed condition (one that is mandatory in order for the treatment I affected to cause the condition I have now) in that article, it made the condition out to be this battle between this ancient fungus, candidiasis and the pituitary and endocrine system.

But here’s the thing, once it gets to the point you get to after this treatment, you’ve kicked off a runaway reaction. The system runs, but it’s destabilized. The pituitary goes from a passive role to an active role and begins actively controlling hormones with a specific goal in mind - keeping circulating electrolytes normal. Typically, this decision, this process is controlled at the kidneys. But, in this, the kidneys have caused the initial set of conditions that kicked it off. In my case, I had SIADH.

It then takes three decades for the ensuing fight. But it’s more like a dance. Everything is set in stone, it just takes ages for each phase. I think it’s too long of a dance. Too precise. I think it could be co-evolution. I think, just maybe, at some recent point in our ancestry, humans had a system that much more frequently worked the way mine does as a dance between two different things, neither with consciousness but still actively waging war for decades.