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Is Chronic Anxiety a Learning Disorder?

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Re: Is Chronic Anxiety a Learning Disorder?

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For me it was magnesium deficiency.

Same here, I have had severe anxiety and depression for quite some time. I was prescribed a few SSRI's bet, but my doctor was a dick and pretty much state I need to just get out and do more, get my mind off shit. So on trying to improve my mental health I started taking nootropics. Some of them people SWARE BY, yet I never experienced any noticeable effect. But by chance I ordered a batch of Magnesium L-Threonate and…

Magnesium annihilated my anxiety too. I had severe anxiety and insomnia. I used magnesium supplement for about 6 months. All gone, now I have no mental problems and stopped using magnesium supplements. Just eating healthy, and it seems fine enough. Not sure how I developed that serious magnesium deficiency for years...

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Fascinating that Behrens reward game showed that humans were able to mentally model volatility at the level of an "ideal learner". But in the variation of the game where there was punishment instead of reward, non-anxious people still performed as "ideal learners" whereas anxious people's predictions became totally out of whack. In other words, the overly anxious mind temporarily lost its capacity to correctly formul…

This happened to me at Amazon the first time I visited HQ.

The interviewer was standing about six feet away intently watching for every mark I made, which made me freeze up and start rambling about stars shining, or something equally nonsensical.

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Are muscle cramps the source of your back pain?

I up my consumption of calcium rich foods and B vitamins for low back pain. In my case, it seems to be immune distress. The pelvic bones are the largest well of bone marrow in the body.

Do you mean reservoir of calcium?

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I up my consumption of calcium rich foods and B vitamins for low back pain. In my case, it seems to be immune distress. The pelvic bones are the largest well of bone marrow in the body.

Do you mean reservoir of calcium?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you mean reservoir of calcium?

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HN wasn't designed for your benefit. It was designed as a marketing and analytics tool for YC; effectively, a Trojan horse in news aggregator form. Any entertainment you derive from using it is incidental and YC wishes it could charge you for it.

Just an FYI to other people: please note, this is a green handle using a capital I in place of the L in my name. I didn't leave the above remark.

The old Sans Serif font trick! Haven't seen that since the AOL days.
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