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Re: Ask HN: How can I stop worrying and start living?

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> It became a universal remedy Since we're all humans with human bodies there are universal ways to better our emotional and mental lives. There's a reason there's no obese 80 year old people.

OP is not 80. OP has been very clear in expressing what he wants. How do you think exercise will enable him to do so? As you can see from his requests he's looking for some serious luck in 3 distinctive and uncorrelated domain (longevity, wealth and family life) not to lose weight.

All 3 of OP's direct requests have to do with a negative mental state.

Exercise improves that. Here's a bunch of literature.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/more-evidence-t...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22933142/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1470658/

Regardless, exercise isn't the core method to weight loss, that's change of diet.

> As you can see from his requests he's looking for some serious luck

No, I disagree.

OP said:

>I am constantly worried that ...

Op's request cannot be solved through fulfillment of their apparent presentation. Look at what is behind them.

Worry is a state of mind. Even if they were fulfilled to YOUR satisfaction, worry could still exist in someone else's mind in the exact same position. Worry, OP stated, is their core problem.

“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems”

― Epictetus

Re: Ask HN: How can I stop worrying and start living?

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post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OP is not 80. OP has been very clear in expressing what he wants. How do you think exercise will enable him to do so? As you can see from his requests he's looking for some serious luck in 3 distinctive and uncorrelated domain (longevity, wealth and family life) not to lose weight.

All 3 of OP's direct requests have to do with a negative mental state. Exercise improves that. Here's a bunch of literature. https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/more-evidence-t... https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22933142/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1470658/ Regardless, exercise isn't the core method to weight loss, that's change of diet. > As you can see from his requests he's looking for s…

Ok let's say that we cheat and operate as you say. That is not by not solving OP's problems but by eliminating his "worry"

Do you think exercise is potent enough? To me you'd need psychedelics such as LSD, Salvia and DMT given the scope of the problems we have to distract him from

Re: Ask HN: How can I stop worrying and start living?

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post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All 3 of OP's direct requests have to do with a negative mental state. Exercise improves that. Here's a bunch of literature. https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/more-evidence-t... https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22933142/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1470658/ Regardless, exercise isn't the core method to weight loss, that's change of diet. > As you can see from his requests he's looking for s…

Ok let's say that we cheat and operate as you say. That is not by not solving OP's problems but by eliminating his "worry" Do you think exercise is potent enough? To me you'd need psychedelics such as LSD, Salvia and DMT given the scope of the problems we have to distract him from

What OP really needs in a trained therapist, a nutritionist, a trainer, and a group of friends all working together. Not some HN dudes.
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