Prosper
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Cypro is unfortunately not available/legal where I live. As for gut bacteria, I don't know if this is relevant, but for mayn years now every night as lay down bed in bed my intestines start to rumble and churn a lot. This continues for ~30 min, until eventually plenty of gas is released and things settle down. It doesn't seem to matter what I eat, it happens every single night. Once I fasted the whole day and it still happened, although to lesser extent.Anyway, I can understand where you are coming from. I have had rumination as well. Doing a vitamin C flush seems to help. Could be a gut bacteria. I also take cyproheptadine for my serotonin problems.
I have been diagnosed thrice with moderate depression, I personally think the correct diagnosis would be closer to dysthymia. No opinion about high serotonin, but low dopamine I do suspect strongly. Well, in the end both of these go hand in hand, no? Labs have come back as normal. I don't remember the totality of what was measured, but it included thyroid, blood sugars, hemoglobin and standard stuff like that. No hormones, amino acids or anything fancy.Dave is right. Rumination is a textbook sign of high serotonin. I understand that you may feel like you don't ruminate or have excessively verbal thought patterns, but your own description of your behavior suggests otherwise. You should have labs done. You sound depressed.
Yes, that is very accurate. However, I have never got any validation or sense of social acceptance from the job I do. I don't think my mind operates that way. I have always validated my own self. Others can only strengthen a sentiment I have already embraced, or provide alternate insight for why it may not be accurate. Neverthelss, I am the gatekeeper in both situations. No praise or criticism can affect me emotionally without my permission.Like most people on this forum, you may be a self-perfectionist. This does alienate you from other people because you're trying not to reflect the parts of them that you don't like.
In some ways it sure was not. In other ways, it was probably even better. We evolved to have certain needs. If these needs were not being fulfilled in the past, they would not have been selected for in the first place. The reality is that our modern societies aren't built to fulfill the full array of these needs. Our collectives are larger, more abstract and relativistic than what many of us are biologically prepared to handle. It's one thing to be on guard for pumas in the night, but completely another to live under the constant stream of abstract threats like economical collapses, traitorous governments and societal upheavals. No one belongs to anywhere. In the west we have cultivated individualistic culture to the point of spiritual exhaustion. This is much different than what it was to live in a small tribe where everyone had clear place in the group and collectively upheld purpose from which values and goals were derived.Maybe the past wasn't as great as you romanticize it to be.
If your nauseated by the convenience of modern society why does your current lifestyle seem so convenient?
I am practically incapable of doing any changes. I just can't focus my mind to it. I don't desire anything, and I wouldn't have the ability to achieve it either. It's also possible that any drastic change I pull off puts me in an even worse position. For now I at least have my head above the water. My current existence is not horrible, merely far from being worthwhile.
Yes, this is a more elaborate post, thanks for taking the time to write it. I have always felt more comfortable in the wintertime. No overly bright sunshine, no excessive sweating, no stupidly happy half naked people or loitering arabs and somalis in the streets.It's useful to compare periods of stress versus insight. During the recovery phase from extreme stress, such as during a vacation, sabbatical, change of environment, new life circumstance, spiritual experience, nutritional change, or hormonal or supplemental introduction, we enter into a new perspective.
Vacations themselves may be thought of as "energy pooling," which itself activates the orienting reflex and allows the organism to reposition itself with a clearer understanding of its current state and present needs. It's important to capitalize on periods of recovery through an integration of new understandings into the present environment, all to safeguard a future uninterrupted flow of energy.
Androgens promote creativity and outward expression, whereas estrogen enforces harm-avoidance. After an artist reaches 40 years of age, creativity plummets. After 40, the use of adaptogenic substances such as coffee, teas, tobacco and alcohol becomes insufficient to promote youthfulness. Dr. Peat writes about "winter sickness," which he later calls "the pathology of estrogen dominance," or the more colloquial "seasonal affective disorder (SAD)," and it involves symptoms of moodiness, depression, irritability and so on.
@lampofred Thank you.
I don't think I've ever been under significant stress. The concept of stressing over some external situation is unfamiliar to me. In the grand scheme of things everything is more or less as it is supposed to be. The world will go on regardless of what ever happens to me.
Not necessarily agreeing about the plummeting creativity. A better description would be that creativity changes form. There's of course a decline in cognitive fluidity over time, but that's hardly everything creativity is about. It's synthetization of previous experiences, sensations and knowledge. Nothing is ever created out of thin air. If for the sake of example we assume that IQ & experience determine the ability to perceive dots, then creativity is the ability to form novel connections between them. In this way, the potential for creativity can only get stronger with age as experience accumulates and the pool from which to pull data from grows.
Be as harsh as you feel is necessary, I don't care. I do not mean to imply that I haven't been experimenting with different things. I've been employed and unemployed, addicted to substances and sober, in an out of love, spent periods in solitude and with friends. I have eaten a lot and very little, exercised and been inactive. It doesn't make much difference. The realities of existence remain the same.Humans need to strive for something.work or produce something...or you'l never find meaning. 10 years? wow that's a long time to never try to think/live differently.