I'm not a health professional!
Exercise. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/08/210804123610.h...
Get off your butt. https://scitechdaily.com/sitting-more-is-linked-to-increased...
Ensure you sleep/wake at regular times. https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/857448
Magnesium may help, taken just before bedtime. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/magnesium-the-most-powerf_b_4...
Get a pet and take it regularly for walks in a park.
Ask HN: How can I stop worrying and start living?
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Re: Ask HN: How can I stop worrying and start living?
#62This is a silly little mindgame but it really does help with worry and stress. You basically flip all worst-case scenarios on their head to see the advantages of whatever situation you're in. Good Game: Good! Now I can .... Eg. My husband is divorcing me. Good! Now I can find someone who loves me deeply and doesn't leave ice cream containers composting on his desk. My upstairs neighbors are hella loud and annoying. G…
5'10 balding male with a micropenis. Good!
You now have a good excuse to sleep with 10/10 escorts who are way outta your league.
Re: Ask HN: How can I stop worrying and start living?
#63Look to Jesus. What is going on can’t be defused by purely physical responses. There are deeper things at play.
Re: Ask HN: How can I stop worrying and start living?
#64you are not alone, many of us has the same thoughts. One way that I can think of is read as many books as possible, it will definitely help to alter the way of thinking. Also, we need to change with time, our priorities changes over time, to be happy we don't need something fancy, we can be happy with what we have where we are as it is a choice.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
The pharmacopeia is vast.
An Edisonian (try everything, like Edison did when searching for the perfect incandescent light bulb filament) approach to self-medication seems to be an expensive, dangerous, time-consuming and low-yield approach to addressing problems that may, in fact, transcend the physical body. The only plus I see is your corpse becoming impervious to decomposition, providing a post-life career as the Amazing Mummy Man in trave…
I think you're using the wrong ones.
Re: Ask HN: How can I stop worrying and start living?
#66Drugs work.
Just be very careful with this stuff and make sure to talk to a psychiatrist that knows what they are doing. I've seen a few people get prescribed benzodiazepines for anxiety related issues from general practitioners who didn't know what they were doing and the results were vastly worse than if nothing had been done. A tolerance can very quickly be built in which this class of drugs become vastly less effective and t…
Nothing so serious as a cup of coffee.
Re: Ask HN: How can I stop worrying and start living?
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Re: Ask HN: How can I stop worrying and start living?
#68I think some of the advice here is quite good, but especially given the title of your question, someone has to point out that there's literally a book on the subject called "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living," by Dale Carnegie. It's a good book. It probably won't solve all your problems without you needing to do some inner work, and I generally recommend meditation as a way to find peace, but also you should read…
I've also read this book and would recommend it highly, along with How to Win Friends. I read the latter as a kid, and I don't think it has a lower bound on the age it's helpful at.
Re: Ask HN: How can I stop worrying and start living?
#69Look to Jesus. What is going on can’t be defused by purely physical responses. There are deeper things at play.
I can't recommend enough a simple prayer technique of 3 steps.
I think that even to someone who is not a believer, it can be helpful.
First, I start by expressing gratitude for something I appreciate. There's always something, even if it is being alive, breathing, and if you're lucky enough, walking, roof over your head, able-bodied, etc.
Throughout the day many things happen which we can be grateful for, but we tend to overlook them, unless we intentionally cultivate a gratitude habit.
The second part is asking for forgiveness for anything we regret doing one way instead of another. Whether it is being impatient with someone, or missing an important detail, or losing our cool, etc.
Even without contacting a higher being, you can ask for forgiveness from yourself, and that helps one stop dwelling on past mistakes and focus in living in and enjoying the present.
And the third part is asking for help, I guess this is what makes it a prayer. I ask for help often, and I get it, though not always in the way I expect. But even on a materialistic-deterministic way it can help one focus on what to look out for, and notice opportunities which one might have otherwise overlooked.
I usually avoid asking for something too specific, and instead ask for things like help with progressing my work, help with thinking positively, help with bringing more joy into someone's life or my own, etc. This is also a good opportunity to pray for help for others.
Re: Ask HN: How can I stop worrying and start living?
#70This is a silly little mindgame but it really does help with worry and stress. You basically flip all worst-case scenarios on their head to see the advantages of whatever situation you're in. Good Game: Good! Now I can .... Eg. My husband is divorcing me. Good! Now I can find someone who loves me deeply and doesn't leave ice cream containers composting on his desk. My upstairs neighbors are hella loud and annoying. G…
5'10 balding male with a micropenis. Good!
Good! I’m not short!
Good! I can choose my hair colour when picking a wig.
Good! Big penis is not comfortable for partner.