_ywdj

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by _ywdj 2y ago
Oh man, the most helpful article I’ve ever read about depression and burnout was on Kuro5hin. Luckily it’s been preserved on Wikibooks: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Demystifying_Depression Still holds up well two deca
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by _ywdj 2y ago
First, I don’t know why you feel the need to include a hostile ad hom barb like “You seem to think evolutionary theory came to an end in 1882”. I’ve done multiple Google searches and even done Google Books searches in the very book you link
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by _ywdj 2y ago
This feels like a just-so story. There are perfectly plausible reasons why the conditions we regard as mental illness are adaptations that help evolutionary fitness: - Depression puts one into a low-energy, contemplative state that enables
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by _ywdj 3y ago
I’ve largely overcome CFS with a variety of treatments over more than about 15 years. Most of the treatments are physical therapies (particular nutrition and exercise approaches), but an unconventional subconscious emotional healing modalit
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by _ywdj 3y ago
Ok I watched it, thanks. I’m not sure if it is meant to make me aware of anything I wasn’t already aware of, but for the record, I’ve spent much of the past 10+ years thinking about the pros and cons of this work and wrestling with the risk
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by _ywdj 3y ago
I'm not "stoic" or much into any other "ism", and don't particularly align with many other people in "STEM" fields. The practices I've discovered came after many years of experiencing debilitatin
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by _ywdj 4y ago
> I suffered a rare illness (still have it...) > with a low everything You have an illness. That's all there is to it. Don't be ashamed. I think you probably have an illness of the kind that mainstream medicine/society
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by _ywdj 4y ago
It's a very common reaction for people to assert that the solution to a deep societal problem is to "stop [group] from [doing action] to [another group]", as if that's an answer, rather than the beginning of a very long
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by _ywdj 4y ago
I've been living "as if" this is true for over 10 years. After years of struggling with confidence issues, anxiety, and physiological issues like muscle tension/pain and inflammation, and trying all the conventional moda
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by _ywdj 4y ago
I think you're ending up splitting hairs here, starting out by initially (apparently) saying drugs should be avoided, but then coming around to the position that LSD or mushrooms would be much better than MDMA, even though plenty of ot
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by _ywdj 5y ago
Thanks for the reply. No DMs on HN but you can email me (address in profile).
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by _ywdj 5y ago
Some friends have a 7-year-old son who is being assessed/treated for autism-spectrum disorder; he's outgoing, sociable and highly intelligent, but has issues with emotional and behavioural dysregulation and can often get into kind
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by _ywdj 5y ago
I think I understand what you're feeling. I'm lucky to have found my way through my period of feeling lost, and have come to a pretty good place as I approach 45 (fathered my first child two years ago, have increasingly good relat
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by _ywdj 5y ago
It's hard to recommend stuff here (I've been trying for years to work out how to reply to this answer FWIW), as a lot of the popular books about it are too close to law-of-attraction, Tony Robbins, Think and Grow Rich kind of stuf
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by _ywdj 5y ago
Not sure if it counts as spiritual, but for 10 years I've consistently done subconscious, mind+body healing exercises. It's been profoundly transformative. Prior to that (and for quite a while after) I had a huge amount of drama a
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by _ywdj 5y ago
Cheers. I take a small selection of supplements - mostly minerals/vitamins and digestive support but also some amino acids. Not NAC these days, but I may again. My main antioxidant supplement at the moment is Alpha-lipoic Acid.
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by _ywdj 5y ago
There are many brands listed on iHerb (all with "dietary supplement" prominently listed in the product description), though most of the items are marked "out of stock", so it looks like many people have been stocking up.
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by _ywdj 5y ago
From my own experience I can very much believe an SSRI could have an effect on the immune system and/or the respiratory system. I was a heavy cigarette smoker in my 20s, and over those years, I experienced worsening asthma and also wor