What Stress Does to the Brain

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Re: What Stress Does to the Brain

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Post by mistermann » Sat, Jul 27, 2019, 6:39 PM UTC

blackflame7000 wrote: post #122

mistermann wrote: post #113

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Thanks for the advice. And not to be argumentative, but I think it's fair to say that neither you nor anyone else on the planet knows with certainty the full range of possible benefits and detriments to exercise, psilocybin (particularly, in no small part because it is illegal to even formally study for the most part), or anything else for that matter.

Human's might not have a full understanding but there's an entire branch of science (pharmacology) dedicated to studying these things. We know that Alcohol has a detrimental effect on your coordination just like we know Psilocybin has a detrimental effect on your perception of reality. Frankly, I think it's far less strange for someone to show up to work high than tripping.

> We know that Alcohol has a detrimental effect on your coordination just like we know Psilocybin has a detrimental effect on your perception of reality

Incorrect. We do not in fact know that "Psilocybin has a detrimental effect on your perception of reality", as an absolute. This could be said about many scenarios, maybe even most, but the statement at face value implies there are no beneficial effects on perception of reality, in any scenario. Any such claim is flawed both logically and epistemically.

Re: What Stress Does to the Brain

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Post by mistermann » Sat, Jul 27, 2019, 7:11 PM UTC

graeme wrote: post #119

mistermann wrote: post #81

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> I would say I did this for 2-4mweeks Every time you had a trigger you did this, and symptoms lifted after 2-4 weeks? https://www.healthline.com/health/box-breathing

I should note that it seemed to help very quickly. I could feel the stress stimulus, but then it was blocked. Eventually my stress stimulus reactions adjusted, within 2-3 weeks. If it doesn’t feel right from the early days, it may not be the thing to solve your problem.

Thanks for this useful additional detail. Debugging medical issues like this is extremely complicated, in no small part because a lack of organized anecdotal stories.

It's unfortunate that we have this widespread mentality of believing something is only true if it is measured and published by "authorities in the field". This belief rests on the axiom that that everything that can be known, is. Axioms like this are not just false but dangerous, and thousands to millions of them are present in humanities' "understanding" of reality, both at the high level "expert" level, as well as at the every day person level.

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