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A lot of folks are focusing on the title, but I think this is the most interesting part: > When they gave the mice a chemical that inhibited inflammation, neither the brain-cell problem nor the depressive symptoms went away. But the memory loss and inflammatory macrophages did disappear. >And that led them to conclude that the post-stress memory trouble is directly linked to inflammation — and the immune system — rat…
A short interview on the topic: https://www.washingtonpost.com/express/wp/2008/09/23/heres_o...
I'm a Jr dev who spent a year sneaking into lectures, studying, stealing food before I became employable. I now work 70 hours a week for peanuts and although I feel fine, I am pretty sure I am about to rip my hair out.
Oh yeah, I'm probably pretty stressed.
What do I do about this?
How do you know you're stressed? I'm a Jr dev who spent a year sneaking into lectures, studying, stealing food before I became employable. I now work 70 hours a week for peanuts and although I feel fine, I am pretty sure I am about to rip my hair out. Oh yeah, I'm probably pretty stressed. What do I do about this?
Thus, whatever is motivating you to work longer hours is mistaken. If it is your own belief, fix it. If it is the belief of the company you work at, either try to work with them to get more reasonable hours or try to find a new job.
Stress tends to wreak havoc on the entire body, so I'd have been surprised if this weren't the case.
A couple years ago I remember reading an article that bullying in school has strong epigenetic effects in the children given birth to by bullied people. That realization, that by bullying people you don't just break them , but even hurt their unborn children ...
It is actually more logical that the psychological scars linger and go untreated as the damage is not recognized.
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This is something I would really like to read more about. No pressure, but this would be excellent subject for a blog post.
I second this, I would love to hear more
Specific books mentioned in the thread I can vouch for:
The Power of Habit (popular science) http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12609433-the-power-of-hab...
Superhuman by Habit (actionable, no-bull, if somewhat introductory) http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23206969-superhuman-by-ha...
By the far, the most stressful thing I've ever done is stay with my dad while he died of cancer. For the last two weeks of his life, I stayed at the long-term care facility he was at. I put all my client's projects on hold so I could be with him. I stayed perhaps 18 or more hours of each day. I slept in the chair next to his bed. I did my best to take care of what he needed. When he was in pain I would go out into th…
If you're reading this, do everyone in your life a favor and take care of this shit this week and email it to the people who will be cleaning up your life when you're done with it. It's the courteous thing to do.
A lot of folks are focusing on the title, but I think this is the most interesting part: > When they gave the mice a chemical that inhibited inflammation, neither the brain-cell problem nor the depressive symptoms went away. But the memory loss and inflammatory macrophages did disappear. >And that led them to conclude that the post-stress memory trouble is directly linked to inflammation — and the immune system — rat…
To me, it feels like inflammation is the new cholesterol.
A lot of it seems to run along the lines of confusing correlation with causation.
Somehow crying helps deal with stress. Stress manifests itself in various ways for different people, but crying or going for a run helps me.
Letting those build up definitely hurts.