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Square Inc. Co-Founder Tristan O’Tierney Dies at 35

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Post by therein »

posterboy wrote: post #145
therein wrote: post #114

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Social anxiety about the current moment, though. They are different anxieties.

It goes hand in hand. Mental performance is to a large degree reliant on physical performance, as for digestion, respiration, blood circulation, hormone ballance, wakefullness (focus), muscle tonus (literally being upright), nervous integrity and what have you. Maybe a small bit of spirit is helpfull for digestion. For everything else, alcohol is a nervous agent. Social easing is a bit like shaking up the weights of…

I used alcohol as a social lubricant in college but it was a hit or miss as you said due to do randomization of those weights.

What worked for me years later was to actually work out and lose weight and people start looking at you differently.

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rswail wrote: post #150

If someone gets a cancer, we don't judge them for having weak DNA replication. If someone gets an infectious disease, we don't judge them for having a weak immune system. If someone becomes addicted to a substance, we shouldn't judge them for having a weak physical or psychiatric system. Addiction is a disease and should be treated as such. All of the xA (Alcoholics/Narcotics/Gambling etc) Anonymous are fine communal…

Thank you for the analogies here. I must admit that I've always struggled to understand just how addiction works. I was one of those that always put it down to 'lack of willpower' due to sheer lack of understanding of the depth of how this condition works.

Also, I am thinking that coming from a POV where I don't have any addictive tendencies makes it all the more harder to put myself in the other persons shoes. Not being pious or getting on a high horse here - it is genuinely like someone who doesn't have ADHD or autism trying to understand what it is like for someone who does. Analogies like the above makes it easier to comprehend though.

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Post by fiblye »

tasuki wrote: post #146
kylek wrote: post #86

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In case it needs to be stated - please don't take illicit substances because a random poster on an internet forum tells you it's helped in x or y ways. (For the record, I do believe this class of substances can help a lot of people. Do your own research, know your own body, and think for yourself before making a decision that can have possible adverse effects)

There's no such thing as "illicit" and "legal" substances on the internet - it depends on where each poster and reader is located.

Unless it's LSD. I enjoy LSD as much as anyone here, but it's globally illegal.

And it's pretty unlikely that anyone is posting on HN from the international space station, so it's safe to say that LSD is definitely illicit regardless of their location.

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Post by distances »

DesiLurker wrote: post #121
mamon wrote: post #42

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Happiness, for all I know is basically the ability to ignore sad and inconvenient truths about the world around you. The smarter you are, the harder it is to maintain this delusion.

I have learnt to find some joy in watching my young kids. They haven't been corrupted/encumbered by it all. Secondly, the hope is that as they grow the world will slowly improve with them as shown by some long term data. Third, meditating helps! it helps me get out of my own thinking framework and make some breathing room for myself. Lastly, I feel there is a very important reality that we all are largely unaware of…

World isn't perfect for sure but it is indeed eye-opening to sometimes check how much worse things were as recently as 70s and 80s. Helps to put today's issues into perspective, and be a bit more content.

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rswail wrote: post #150

If someone gets a cancer, we don't judge them for having weak DNA replication. If someone gets an infectious disease, we don't judge them for having a weak immune system. If someone becomes addicted to a substance, we shouldn't judge them for having a weak physical or psychiatric system. Addiction is a disease and should be treated as such. All of the xA (Alcoholics/Narcotics/Gambling etc) Anonymous are fine communal…

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Post by PastorMatthew »

A few responses. AA is not the only game in town as there is reformers unanimous. AA strings you along with your addiction while reformers unanimous results it forever. All of this begins with a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. When that is left out of the life of a 35 year old who is dead because of an addiction it is the one thing that was missing they could help him like nothing ever can in this world.

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Post by BartBoch »

protomyth wrote: post #39
0x8BADF00D wrote: post #31

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I'm surprised you were able to function the next day with that amount. I recently turned 30, and I definitely cannot drink as much as I used to. I get an allergic response to alcohol, which really sucks because I used to enjoy it. There is a mutation in OPRM1 in certain populations that causes your opiate receptors (particularly mu subtype) to release endorphins when drinking. I've definitely had that happen to me wh…

You’d be surprised how much a person can routinely drink and still function. I grew up and now work in a high alcohol abuse area, and some of the folks that were abusing surprised me. Sadly, I’m sure when their body said enough it came as a surprise to them too. Keep safe folks

It's important to say that the way of drinking is probably everything. No shots, avoiding sugary mixers, avoiding beer if possible (at least the cheaper ones), never mixing different alcohols (even the same type, but of different brands).

The worse you feel the next day after alcohol means the more significant damage you did to your body. If you feel fresh, it says that the damage was almost non-existent (besides liver, which, if you drink a lot of alcohol you should take care separately). Then drinking a lot of water before going to bed will help your body to clean from alcohol.

It's all about alcohol-drinking culture. In some countries drinking alcohol 2-4 times a week is normal (as long as you don't drink to get wasted). But I have seen places (for example Ireland), where drinking to get wasted is an ultimate goal 2-4 times a week. That's the problem imo. Better education and public awareness would help a lot.

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Post by tomhoward »

sridca wrote: post #147
tomhoward wrote: post #132

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It's probably just not the right context for introducing this topic. The suggestion that a fast might have cured this person's alcoholism and saved their life is highly speculative and may be seen as offensive by some.

Offensive really? Is it part of the American culture? Genuinely curious.

Nothing to do with American culture - I'm not American. It's about speculating about what might hypothetically have prevented the death that we're talking about, when we have absolutely no idea what was going on in that person's life, hence we're in no position to speculate.
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