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There has to be a diagnosis. "Dunno " doesn't go on the form.
Sure it does, but it's spelled "idiosyncratic" on forms
Idiopathic
So I finally sorted out what happened to my brain
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Re: So I finally sorted out what happened to my brain
#102Amazing 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.
The distinction is a bit misguided anyway because of course all stress and and emotional problems also happen inside the body and thus have a physiological basis.
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#103I don't necessarily doubt the author, but how do you chronically deprive your brain of glucose? Afaik you would get glucose back whenever you ate anything. Unless you were doing keto, but then your body and brain run on ketones. And if you did somehow deprive your brain of fuel, you would get symptoms in a much shorter span. Maybe undereating, but he doesn't list weight loss, and if you're rapidly losing weight and s…
I agree with what you wrote, but additionally, one can get glucose deprivation by just starving, for example. I can't imagine a way to deprive just the brain of glucose. In effect, sustained physical activity should also lead to "depriving the brain of glucose".
Maybe it depends how long you starve for?
As long as you have the fat reserves, it's possible to fast for weeks with nothing more than water. As long as you have a functioning liver, your body uses glycogenesis to create enough glucose for your brain to function.
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#104Low Dopamine and glucose in the brain leading to seizures. I wonder if taking adderall/stimulants as an external dopamine source + sugary drinks/food for the glucose could have helped with this.
No. Adderall forces the brain to release the dopamine it already has and causes increased brain activity, using more glucose. It's more likely to cause this condition or make it substantially worse than it is to treat it. The amphetamine molecule enters the neutron and does several things, two of which are: 1) Force dopamine that is in storage in the neuron to be released prematurely. 2) Reverse the direction of the…
Yeah I distinctly remember on day three or so of bangface (a n extremely intense rave festival in the UK) just kinda sitting slumped against a mattress in our chalet with almost this feeling like air was whistling through my empty neurons because you go hard on uppers and whatnot again and again.
Re: So I finally sorted out what happened to my brain
#105Amazing 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.
The distinction is a bit misguided anyway because of course all stress and and emotional problems also happen inside the body and thus have a physiological basis.
Yes, emotion is all chemicals and signals in your brain, but there's still a quite clear distinction to what the difference between physiological and psychological is.
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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 i…
These are good points.
I especially hadn't considered the commenting on individual tweets aspect. IMO it's a bit esoteric to click on an individual tweet to read the comments, because it breaks the flow of my reading. But I can totally understand the upsides of that.
After hearing your thoughts, Twitter could improve by removing the character limit BUT:
- Showing only the first 250 characters of a post on user's feeds.
- Putting a like button next to each paragraph
- Making it easy to inline quote sections of the text in comments by building it into a context menu when you highlight text
This UX would only apply to >250 character tweets, so the micro blogging aspect is not totally lost. Perhaps a option could be added to filter out long tweets for users who prefer micro blogging.
This way you wouldn't have to laboriously chain tweets together, and you would actually gain flexibility in quoting specific sections without breaking the flow of reading.
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#107I don't know about the glucose ... ... but burning out can really destroy your life. I know it destroyed mine. It took me years to recover, and I'm still not 100%. I started working for an early stage startup right after school when I was 19yo. I didn't sleep. I didn't eat properly. Our team was small. Responsibilities super high. And I burned out. Oh, I have so many stories from this time... like when I hadn't slept…
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.
But why? There are plenty of good companies that have work life balance. Why not move to one of them?
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#108Reading this, many will relate and yet would of put it down to burn-out. We know if you push your body physically too long you increase risk of injury and whilst initially can get over an injury, aspects can play up and increase chances of the injury repeating - say ligaments as one example or cartilage. Heck even if you break a bone, you may find aches and pains in later life for an injury that seemed to of healed back to new.
The brain we are still trying to understand and to get a diagnoses and explanation for somebody who was able to run 1000MPH mentally and now falls flat, the not knowing in itself, I would imagine of been impacting and getting an answer would be huge - just to put a curious mind at rest. I know that is how I would feel and burned out many times, and can relate to too much of this that it's a bit deja vu.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 i…
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Yeah, or some form of diabetes. The body is great at making glucose out of pretty much anything, specially muscle and fat tissue. I don’t buy the diagnosis, there has to be something else on the metabolic side that’s missing if that were the case. Occam’s razor points to a psychological disorder, he went straight to psychiatric medication with no attempt to deal with the compulsive component of his behavior.
I don't see how at any point a person can be so deprived of nutrients brain convulsions occur. Something had to be wrong before hand, maybe he should get his wife's side of the story.
Thiamine (B1) deficiency can cause exactly that. It leads to mitochondrial disfunction depriving high-energy cells (mostly neurons) from ability to consume glucose via oxidation. As the result, a person develops insulin resistance that causes a swarth of consequences like an induced type 2 diabetes. If the situation with thiamine deficiency is not getting fixed, lactic acidosis proceeds as a dangerous side-effect of the backup metabolism path (anaerobic glycolysis) and gradually leads to progressive peripheral neuropathy including panic attacks (false hypoglycemia), burning sensations and numbness in the limbs and so on with ongoing neuro-degeneration.
Not sure if this is the author's situation but he should be very warned.