lack of anxiety is actually one of the measures of brain damage in mice.
Anxiety can be created by the body, mouse heart study suggests
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Re: Anxiety can be created by the body, mouse heart study suggests
#22> It’s possible, he says, that this heart–brain loop evolved to help animals process danger signals more quickly: when the animal sees a potential threat, even before the brain can fully process what the situation means, the heart rate rises, essentially telling the brain that it should be worried. I suppose, but how does the information about danger get from the eyes to the heart to the brain faster than from the ey…
Brain is still in charge - I think the key is bypassing consciousness and reacting sub-consciously. Which makes sense, your body will starts releasing adrenaline before you ever think "oh no!"
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#23I hope they can one day just dial down my anxiety... benzos are nice, but you become dependant on them and increasingly require more after a while :/
There are actually exercises where you imagine a dial, like a volume knob, and imagine dialing the emotion that you want to regulate down a bit. The astonishing thing is, it works quite well!
Re: Anxiety can be created by the body, mouse heart study suggests
#24Yes, as a bruxism sufferer, I know that relaxing the jaw has a calming effect.
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#25I didn't even know that this was a matter of debate. I had moderately serious heart problem (atrial murmur, sort of the less-serious cousin of afib/atrial fibrilation) and it was extremely clear to me that whatever was happening in my chest was also directly spiking my feelings of anxiety. To be clear, I mean a direct heart->anxiety link, as opposed to "I'm thinking about my heart problem and therefore my anxiety is…
Are you saying that once I get my Aortic valve replacement that I'll be less anxious?
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#26Yes that's why yoga is so good at calming you down and making you healthy. It soothes and calms the parasympathetic nervous system, and helps relieve and release many held tensions in the body. It's no good just to do meditation and calm your mind if your body and nervous system is still holding on to so much stress. The body remembers many things and "embodies" many emotions. You can notice this if you do part-by-pa…
> It soothes and calms the parasympathetic nervous system Wouldn't you want to stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system? Not calm it?
I think the non-scientific explanation is that with conditions such as anxiety and chronic stress it's consistently engaged, but only slightly (like background noise).
You need to fully stimulate it for it to relax afterwards. That can also be accomplished with breathing exercises, ice baths, etc.
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#27Yes, as a bruxism sufferer, I know that relaxing the jaw has a calming effect.
How do you relax your jaw. I have bruxism and can’t seem to relax it ever.
Re: Anxiety can be created by the body, mouse heart study suggests
#28I didn't even know that this was a matter of debate. I had moderately serious heart problem (atrial murmur, sort of the less-serious cousin of afib/atrial fibrilation) and it was extremely clear to me that whatever was happening in my chest was also directly spiking my feelings of anxiety. To be clear, I mean a direct heart->anxiety link, as opposed to "I'm thinking about my heart problem and therefore my anxiety is…
I have a friend with panic attacks and she was pretty much the last one in our circle of friends to figure out that stomach distress was triggering attacks. The Vagus nerve is a puppet master and it can fuck with your sense of well-being on a good day, but if you have an adrenal disorder, good fucking luck.
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#29Makes sense. On days I skip eating for the whole day I will get a sense of impending doom later in the day. Just "something is going to really badly somewhere!"
Re: Anxiety can be created by the body, mouse heart study suggests
#30I didn't even know that this was a matter of debate. I had moderately serious heart problem (atrial murmur, sort of the less-serious cousin of afib/atrial fibrilation) and it was extremely clear to me that whatever was happening in my chest was also directly spiking my feelings of anxiety. To be clear, I mean a direct heart->anxiety link, as opposed to "I'm thinking about my heart problem and therefore my anxiety is…
Are you saying that once I get my Aortic valve replacement that I'll be less anxious?
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