While It's good to keep a good amount of anger to use as motivation, people really shouldn't overly stress over things that go beyond their control. As long as you keep up with your daily routine, things should eventually work out well in the end.
People should avoid the toxins in the food as much as possible, from experience this has helped me in many ways, all the more when it comes to concentration and taking decisions. Make sure to take some time to reflect to find solutions and keep yourself healthy.
I notice when I fast or are under acute cortisol/adrenaline rush e.g. from arguments at home and if I do not suppress the cortisol release and let it flow some of my symptoms improve and my mind feels clearer for some while afterward
However, there are times when it worsens them too or when some symptoms worsen while others improve so it is very odd
I am sure there is a dysfunction with the way how body intakes/outputs stimulus with POIS because acute stimulations of all sorts (stress, fasting, sickness, sleep changes) seem to be able to get rid of some POIS symptoms for many
Whenever I am under acute stress after it I get slight euphoria, improvement in mental clarity and feel more relaxed afterwards despite subconscious tension remaining a bit, however after this initial "high" wears off I feel more fatigued afterwards
Cortisol/adrenaline temporarily lowering inflammation/autoimmune reactions or giving quick energy surge?
Muon believes the autonomic nervous system might be dysfunctional so it processes sexual stimuli improperly making it hard for the body to get back to the non-aroused type of state
What are your thoughts on why for many fasting/sickness/stress/sleep changes can turn off or decrease POIS?
Hello,
I am have been undergoing some seriously traumatic and drawn out stress, and it's probably not going to stop any time soon. I'm aware of the fact that stress can do some pretty serious and surprising harm to the body, but I don't care to psyche myself out by researching exactly what kind of harm it will do. Assuming absolutely nothing can be done circumstantially or acutely to address the stressor directly, what kind of supplements could be taken to perhaps reduce some of the damage inflicted by stress on the body?
Thanks.
So i've been DMing for two years and i'm currently one story arc deep in a long-term campaign (my first one actually!) with some good friends of mine. For a series complications i'm not going to dwell on, we've decided to take a break, but taking this time off of DnD made me realize that to me the game was becoming more of a burden than a fun activity with friends. The more time i spent NOT thinking about the campaign, the better i felt. I felt the responsability of my friends' weekend on my shoulders, which led me to overpreparing because i am so very scared of improvising. This was very stressful and i slowly, without even noticing, started to enjoy mastering DnD less and less.
I basically stressed myself out of the game.
So i started to build a new setting and searching for a new game system. I watched hours of quickstart guides to Cypher, Savage Worlds, Fate but nothing... neither of them satisfied me. Slowly i realized the problem wasn't the setting nor the system, but it was the way i approached the game:
I need to let myself screw up, improvise and embrace the fact that group storytelling is inevitably utter chaos. Sometimes it goes well, sometimes it doesn't. I need to stop overpreparing, i need to pull myself out of this situation i put myself into.
But how? How does one convince themselves to stop being scared of the game?
Please, wise dungeon masters, help me!
TL;DR: I am very scared of improvisation and ended up stressing myself out of DnD. How do i embrace the randomness of ttrpgs and stop being scared of improvising?
Came across a research article published last month that I thought people here would find really interesting! It's open source so everyone can take a read.
The study tracked down people who reported having two-tone hair strands - hair strands that are both colored and gray, so that the researchers could analyze at a really fine grained level (1/20th of a millimeter slices) the hair's structural composition in the color transition area. Doing this allowed them to identify protein profiles that indicate specific body processes that were occurring as the hair went gray. In addition, the study participants filled out a retrospective assessment to identify their most stressful events in the last 12 months.
The main body of the research finds that the spots on the hair strand where graying started were correlated with when in time the participants experienced high stress. Additionally, the hair strand composition analysis is heavy on the microbiology for anyone interested in the specific protein expression dynamics but in general, gray hairs were structured differently and the composition changes indicated the type of metabolic and immune processes that engage during high stress periods.
An interesting section of the paper also described how they found repigmentation of some gray hairs - hair that had started becoming gray, but reverted back to having color. The location of the graying and repigmentation of these hairs was again correlated with when the participants' stressful life events started and stopped. A couple cases of gray-to-colored hair have been noted before (see the citation to O'Sullivan 2020), but this is the first time they've linked the repigmentation to a timeline of life events and when stress periods ended.
Something to keep in mind is that the authors note this repigmentation phenomenon is rare - they could only find 14 people with this across 2.5 years of study recruitment. Also, they never found a period of graying longer than a couple months, aka long-term graying is likely permanent. But there are a lot of converging analysis linking stress to premature hair graying, so I think that's a noteworthy takeaway for the average person even if you're not able to repigment your own hairs :)
Generally curious..
I noticed that there's a lot of dudes here, and most online drug forums are the same way. I've been reading about substance use disorders and toxic masculinity separately and came across this link. I think it might help some of us here to understand it better, especially while many of us are on self improvement journeys.
I'm having an easier time responsibly using cannabis now that I'm in therapy and accepting all the help I can get and talking about my problems. I've been hardheaded throughout most of my life, I have a difficult time asking for help, I ignore my emotions and my problems and I have nothing good to show for it, it got me nowhere in life. I finally had a wake up call in a psychiatric hospital back in May, I put myself there because I was having suicidal thoughts, - best thing I ever did for myself. I thought I understood toxic masculinity but it was so engrained in me and my behaviors I was really just barely able to reach out for help when I did, and it still took people convincing me to accept help.
I see a lot of similarities in people's lives here, some good and some not so good; hard workers, tough guys, can-do attitudes, inspiring stories. I could be wrong, I'm definitely not a perfect analyzer. I just thought I'd make this post for anyone on the fence, maybe thinking about reaching out for help or talking to someone about their problems. If you think you could benefit from therapy just go, let go of whatever is holding you back and embrace help for once, beyond the internet. I'd encourage everyone to go read about substance use disorder, it's in the DSM-5, and toxic masculinity and try to approach it with an open mind. It might save you the trouble of winding up in a psych ward one day.
Generalizing of course. Why is stress like in anxiety typically bad while stressing your heart in exercise a good thing? Does cortisol work differently in one than the other?
While It's good to keep a good amount of anger to use as motivation, people really shouldn't overly stress over things that go beyond their control. As long as you keep up with your daily routine, things should eventually work out well in the end.
People should avoid the toxins in the food as much as possible, from experience this has helped me in many ways, all the more when it comes to concentration and taking decisions. Make sure to take some time to reflect to find solutions and keep yourself healthy.
