Since our paper on Dysphoric Milk Ejection Reflex appeared online last week
at

http://www.internationalbreastfeedingjournal.com/content/6/1/6/abstract

Alia Heise and I have heard from a couple of people who report something
similar in themselves even though they're not breastfeeding.  Here's what we
had in the paper about it, reported by a man:

"For much of my life - I'm now 65 - I've experienced infrequent, sudden,
unexplained dips in my

emotions while I'm thinking about something positive. I'll be having
pleasant thoughts about an upcoming

trip, for instance, only to have them suddenly and almost forcibly replaced
with bad feelings, and thoughts

of lost tickets, missed connections, a bad time. These 'down' feelings never
last very long - a minute or

less - and I quickly rebound to the pleasant thoughts."

We talk about a mild form of D-MER causing a feeling of homesickness - an
unhappy remembering of a happy time, a sort of knife edge between pleasure
and pain, and two readers have said, "Yes, I've had that."

Have others experienced this fleeting sense of homesickness or "hollow
stomach" unrelated to breastfeeding?  Under what circumstances?  We're
suddenly wondering just how common an "emotional glitch" it is.  Probably
not the sort of thing people talk about, because it's so fleeting, and so
maybe more common than anyone would have guessed.

Email me privately if you prefer, and let me know if it's okay to share the
gist of your experience.

Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC  Ithaca, NY  USA

 


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