Symptoms / Medication / Is this Depression??
Q.I'm not a doctor, but have been diagnosed with clinical depression, and have had bouts for years. The symptoms you put down are not the classical symptoms of depression. I found a link that has a 'depression self test' http://www.psy-med.com/evergreen/htmldoc/selfttxt.html If you've ruled out all potential physical problems, is it possible that the symptoms you describe are from a perceptual disorder? My current (and so far best) therapist has a daughter who was thought borderline dsylexic. It turned out to be a treatable perceptual problem. She showed me a book, called "Reading by the Colors". If my memory serves me, some of the symptoms you exhibit sound like the ones in the book. It may be worthwhile to borrow the book from your library. I will warn you, doctors may not recognize perceptual problems as a disorder.
A.Did the neurologist comment on your test? The brain uses the information received from the inner ear in order to visually adjust for head movement. Rotation of the body while devoid of physical cues suggests that the somewhere down the line, the neural firing associated with right turning is not strong enough. If anything goes wrong with this, then the compensation made is very good, but is not perfect. More precisely the brain compensates by using optical cues to keep the eye positioned in the right place. The problem with fast moving items is that these optical cues are no longer appropriate for compensating for the small head movements. Inevitably such problems also cause dizziness etc. That's my speculation on the subject. Where would such a problem lie? It could lie in the vestibular system itself (the inner ear), or it could lie on any of the connections from there to different parts of the brain. This gets complicated. The presence or absence of certain symptoms rule certain connections out. Co-occurance with depression and lack of certain symptoms (greater tendency to nausea?) would make me speculate that it is more neural than "physical".
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