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Re: So I finally sorted out what happened to my brain

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Post by mewpmewp2 »

cercatrova wrote: post #33
havernator wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Middle aged here. Almost, but not quite, no autobiographical memory. Been that way since I was really young. So that’s fun. Often I remember that something happened. Order gets wonky, even a week back. Sometimes I can kinda remember an image or a snippet, but not reliably. I gather most people hold on to a lot more than that. Fine with facts and such. Never a problem in school. I do have trouble remembering the names…

Can you visualize things in your mind as if they were physically in front of you? People with aphantasia cannot and they often can't remember visual events from the past as a result. Perhaps you have it too.

How can I tell if I am unable to do this? I think maybe I kind of can, but I have to focus really hard and it is a flickering image and I am not sure if I am actually imagining that I am imagining if that makes sense at all. Or the fact that I am not sure is already telling? I don't think I try to imagine anything in my daily regular life though.

Re: So I finally sorted out what happened to my brain

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Post by exciteabletom »

barnaclejive wrote: post #60

Why does it take 33 posts to tell a story on Twitter? I know why, but _WHY_?

What's the point of being a micro blog platform if long-form text is written anyway? Twitter either needs to disallow long text in threads or just remove the character limit.

Re: So I finally sorted out what happened to my brain

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Post by fho »

tluyben2 wrote: post #72

Same exact symptoms (the bass guitar string he heard is a thing that gave me ptsd like symptoms/crippling anxiety for a long time after) I had from a TIA when I was overworked. He waited getting a scan so they could've missed it later; my office was next to the hospital: nothing showed on the CT one hour after but on the RMI a couple of hours after they found a tiny lesion in one of the regions involved in forming sp…

Is that "bass guitar string" thing common? I had it twice, both times in a hot and cramped train and shrugged it up to "heat stroke".

Re: So I finally sorted out what happened to my brain

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Post by 74d-fe6-2c6 »

I don't find his explanation convincing. He totally overworked for a long time, probably didn't exercise at all, didn't do anything at all - this by itself is likely already a symptom of an underlying issue. No sane person will spend all the time working if there is a choice. Maybe he was distracting himself from a depression or some trauma. To narrow the cause of his experience down to Glucose seems like quite a simplification.

Re: So I finally sorted out what happened to my brain

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Post by someelephant »

Amazing the lengths the mind will go to to convince itself that it's not a stress or emotional problem that is the underlying condition. This person even convinced themselves that things improved because of FND rather than the improvements in life situation -- changing jobs, time passing from the loss of a partner, time passing from start of pandemic.

Re: So I finally sorted out what happened to my brain

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Post by varjag »

bladegash wrote: post #89
popotamonga wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sometimes i wonder if i'm in the path for that. Because even though i do 13h days every day of extremelly stressing work (putting out fires all the time), i do always get 8h sleep and 1h exercise. And so so food.

Research is conflicting, but burnout many times is not caused by the amount of hours worked, whether you are exercising, eating right, etc. Those may be components to it or make you less resilient in general, but burnout seems to really come from things like feeling lack of meaning/purpose, inconsistency in values, perceived or actual unfairness, etc. Another interesting perspective I have heard describes burnout as…

One can argue about compounding factors, but working too hard is always there in burnout cases.

Re: So I finally sorted out what happened to my brain

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Post by pas »

1_player wrote: post #90
rapsey wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What led him to those physical issues is however psychological. People need a work-life balance. No matter how interesting or awesome your job is. He unfortunately is still not looking inward for the actual cause of his problems. He just switched jobs to one less prone to overwork.

Sadly the story lacked the "why?" Why are you working so hard to give yourself seizures and ignore them? When is it a good time to just tell your boss fuck off I'm out? I don't know the guy, but I would understand if it was the case if he was trying to provide for his starving family in a third world country. One thing is reaching burnout, one thing is literally reaching the point of permanent physical damage and jus…

Third world countriness might not only happen there.

The status game is very strong in the US. The need to provide for one's family, house, car, tuition, the very best food, savings, etc.

And when it's just one more stupid report, it seems easy. OP seems to have a very high tolerance for delayed gratification. (Which doesn't seem that surprising for a pentester.)

Re: So I finally sorted out what happened to my brain

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Post by majewsky »

exciteabletom wrote: post #92
barnaclejive wrote: post #60

Why does it take 33 posts to tell a story on Twitter? I know why, but _WHY_?

What's the point of being a micro blog platform if long-form text is written anyway? Twitter either needs to disallow long text in threads or just remove the character limit.

Both of your proposals would make Twitter significantly worse.

- Removing the character limit would just make the feed unwieldy and unpleasant, especially when reading it in chronological order (bottom-up) like it was meant to be read. Typically a follower's feed will contain a collapsed version of the thread showing only the first one or two tweets and a "Show whole thread" button, so they can read a short summary in order to decide whether or not to go into the entire thing.

- Disallowing long text in threads would just push people into writing the first half of their post on Twitter and the second half on $THING (there were once specialized websites for this format, like Twitlonger), which makes the reading and commenting experience unnecessarily disjointed.

Another advantage of tweet threads is that people can share/like/comment individual tweets, which serves to surface the one or two interesting highlights out of a 30-tweet-long story. It's sort of like line highlights or line comments in some blog platforms.

(And if you disagree with my viewpoint, that's fine. I'm not intending to convince you to use Twitter, just explaining why things are the way they are to the best of my knowledge.)

Re: So I finally sorted out what happened to my brain

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Post by fingerlocks »

jordanbeiber wrote: post #71

I experienced something really similar a few years back. Lengthy post, but a topic close to me these days. I had, a couple of years previously, changed job and had the opportunity to do a complete retake on a traditional business from a tech perspective. Incredibly motivated and excited - spent my days talking to teams and management and nights coding and building things. This is not in the US, and I had no pressure…

This neck issue is interesting to me.

Someone close to me, a former Microsoft developer, complained about neck issues for years. Doc said it was probably posture and stress, and this person never went to a specialist.

One day, after about a decade of untreated neck pain, this person collapsed at their desk and went into a coma. They eventually recovered, sort of, but what they describe is exactly how you feel and Mr. Glucose Depletion in TFA. Pop sound in the brain. Dizziness. Loss of speech and motor control.

The official diagnosis was stroke. The former Microsoft engineer had some kind of collapsed/pinched neck artery and they had a stroke. They are alive and well today, but completely incapable of coding for the rest of their life.

A nearly identical but more severe story as yours and the the author’s.

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