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Stress does turn hair gray, and it’s reversible

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Re: Stress does turn hair gray, and it’s reversible

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Post by thisisnico »

pasxizeis wrote: post #41
junon wrote: post #4

Maybe it was a coincidence but at my last job I was so insanely stressed and burnt out. My manager was terrible, treated me like an idiot, and my ideas were stifled day in and day out. I woke up one day and seemingly overnight my beard had a grey patch - almost white, in fact. It fell out in the week after. Almost a year and a half later, after leaving that job, I took the pandemic to really focus on my stress levels…

> Almost a year and a half later, after leaving that job, I took the pandemic to really focus on my stress levels and be happier (I am). Do you mind sharing any particular advice on how to do this?

I mean, for me, cardio makes the biggest difference on my stress levels. Lifting alone made me more stressed out and in pain. I made a mistake listening to the powerlifter/bodybuilder crowd. The amount of stress it creates on your body is insane, not in a good way.

Re: Stress does turn hair gray, and it’s reversible

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Post by thisisnico »

jansan wrote: post #66
BatteryMountain wrote: post #60

My beard got a nice gray patch during 2018.. near the end of that year I ate 5g psilocybin and over the next 3 months all my gray bread hairs disappeared, and still until today I haven't had a single gray hair in my beard again. Can anyone explain that? Early thirties, no health issues, overall normal body.

Maybe no grey hair is how it is supposed to be and the grey patch of hair was caused by a health issue or stress? I mean, you are only in your early thirties, most people have no grey hair at that age.

I had a grey patch at 27, it went away. But it's not true that most people don't have grey hair at that age, most people actually do, just not enough to be super noticeable.

Re: Stress does turn hair gray, and it’s reversible

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Post by thrav »

long_time_gone wrote: post #87
thrav wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s talked about in small circles, but not broadly. Anecdotally, my wife and one of her friends are the only people I know who quickly conceived and had a child without issue over 30. My very close friend and his wife gave up after years of treatments. My sister and her husband are coming up on years of unsuccessful treatments. Several of my wife’s close friends either required treatments, have lost one or more preg…

==The people who are more financially stable and on the same page seem to have the easiest time. == How does this square with people getting unsuccessful treatments? Wouldn't you have to be pretty financially stable and "on the same page" to afford fertility treatments?

Fair point. I should’ve said relatively financially stable (which often translates to feeling poor with a certain crowd - often a point of disagreement between husband and wife) versus abundantly rich.

Funny enough, thinking more, the abundantly rich couples who easily had kids spend the least time together, as the husbands work jobs that dominate their lives.

Re: Stress does turn hair gray, and it’s reversible

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Post by secfirstmd »

hutzlibu wrote: post #70
secfirstmd wrote: post #39

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That does not surprise. I have worked on security for human rights activities and journalists most of my life and went grey at 30. I look so old. I used to do a training thing were people profiled me and they would guess that I was 38-40 when I was 31

Physical or IT security? In either case, I can imagine the stress of your work, when lifes directly depend on you to not screw up. edit: just saw the info in your profile

Haha, yes. It has certainly been challenging but for the most part totally worth it.

Re: Stress does turn hair gray, and it’s reversible

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Post by 41209 »

lowdest wrote: post #90
41209 wrote: post #11

The health effects of stress are pretty insane, I actually had to stop hacker ranking the other day because I noticed my blood pressure would shoot up by about 10 points. No faang offer is worth dropping dead

You can practice until the nerves are gone. I've been doing Leetcode weekly competitions, after a while it's just another timed coding challenge. I've noticed training cardio helps me handle anxiety better, both because I can better handle the physical effects when they arise, and the training itself removes anxiety I'm feeling at that moment.

It's not just that, it's the fact that you're preparing for a job interview which is already a stressful endeavor. When you add oh my God I need to learn all these new things, I need to solve these algro problems faster, it's just too much.

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Post by twodave »

hutzlibu wrote: post #68
chaosbutters314 wrote: post #58

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how is adoption? Did you do domestically or international? Any sage advice? I personally rather adopt than have my own kids so I'm just curious.

What I experienced with the people I know, who adopted: the most easy for you would be - if the child is as young as possible. Preferably shortly after being born. There are of course many older children waiting for a real home - but in general they all bring their mental baggage with - so this can be really, really challenging.

There's a special place in my heart for people who choose to adopt older kids. It's not so much mental baggage as it is damage resulting from years of abuse and/or neglect along different axes of the child's life. There's real loss and trauma involved, and there's no way to erase it. The best you can do is help them cope and not take it personally when they lash out at you for what was done to them.

These same traumas exist in some degree even with our children adopted as infants. They each have undergone a sense of loss (to varying degrees, for sure) and have spent time questioning the events that led their birth parents to put them up for adoption.

There's also a lot of loss after the fact because the typically birth mother does not live a very stable life. Our 4 children only have 1 surviving birth mother between them at this point (we think). One has had to deal with the loss of a birth sibling. These kids have a front-row seat to the reality that life is full of pain. We put a lot of effort into teaching them that there is also an abundance of love available to them.

Re: Stress does turn hair gray, and it’s reversible

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Post by sowbug »

BatteryMountain wrote: post #60

My beard got a nice gray patch during 2018.. near the end of that year I ate 5g psilocybin and over the next 3 months all my gray bread hairs disappeared, and still until today I haven't had a single gray hair in my beard again. Can anyone explain that? Early thirties, no health issues, overall normal body.

It's more likely the five grams were dried psilocybe cubensis mushrooms, which typically contain less than 1% of psychoactive compounds, so your experience would have involved more like 50mg of psilocybin/psilocin/baeocystin/others. Not trying to diminish the experience in any way -- five grams of magic mushrooms are very likely to lead to an amazing trip.

If this assumption is wrong and you in fact did take 5000mg of pure psilocybin, I'd appreciate hearing more detail on that experience.

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