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Re: We’re all just temporarily abled

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Post by coyotespike »

bikenaga wrote: post #378

The article hit home for me, since I injured my left knee in June. I was rehabbing pretty good, to the point where I could do exercise bike and leg work, including light squats. I was set to try a fast walk or slow run in a week, and I could still do yard work. Then last week I reinjured the knee mowing the lawn (if the mower sticks on turf, don't try to force it), and tweaked it again over the weekend (just reaching…

You may have already heard about KneesOverToes guy - his programs scale down for his mother and up to NFL/NBA athletes. Can definitely recommend, he's helped many people.

Re: We’re all just temporarily abled

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Post by mensetmanusman »

joquarky wrote: post #471
gambiting wrote: post #170

So this is how I live my life - knowing that your good health and ability can always just end at no fault of your own. It still haunts me that my father had plans we always talked about, he was very active and loved going outdoors and travelling, mountain biking, hiking etc, he spent a crazy amount of time getting a Land Rover done up as a Camel Trophy replica for a big adventure we were meant to go on, and then basi…

This is good advice, as I assume most here are fairly young. Be mindful to take chronic pain into consideration for any plans later in life, especially if you've not been the most disciplined with your health. Also get up and stretch more. Please.

Stand more than you sit every day!

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Post by MichaelZuo »

the_gipsy wrote: post #481
MichaelZuo wrote: post #418

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you intend to reply to a different comment? What does the mere existence of 'expensive private clinics' in X countries have to do with the diminishing return on higher priced brain surgeons?

No. I am pointing out that rich people still can and do spend all their money on private healthcare for some tiny increase in countries with public healthcare.

How does that relate to my comment?

It's possible for at least 1 person in any given country to hop on a plane or recruit world experts to come, with enough money, even in Somalia or Afghanistan, which don't have functioning systems of any kind.

I wasn't making any claims to the contrary, if you misread.

Re: We’re all just temporarily abled

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Post by r00fus »

swyx wrote: post #90
zealotsm wrote: post #54

This reminded me of 5 daily remembrances from Buddhist cannon. 1. I am sure to become old; I cannot avoid ageing. 2. I am sure to become ill; I cannot avoid illness. 3. I am sure to die; I cannot avoid death. 4. I must be separated and parted from all that is dear and beloved to me. 5. I am the owner of my actions, heir of my actions, actions are the womb (from which I have sprung), actions are my relations, actions…

how depressing. what do they have to say about what joy to derive from life?

The buddhist philosophy (bumper sticker: compassionate skepticism) is very much about joy and reducing suffering. But being ignorant of your likelihood to grow old/ill and eventually die is not a recipe for joy either.

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Post by zer8k »

cogman10 wrote: post #357
zer8k wrote: post #345

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> I feel like the biggest thing the US could do is remove means-testing from our disability aid programs. The problem isn't the means testing the problem is it's applied with broad strokes like all well meaning but inevitably awful government work. First, everyone pays into disability. So everyone should be able to get their share when necessary. Second, means testing includes things like housing, retirement accounts…

> For example, self-inflicted disability (morbid obesity for example) should be subject to a different test of means than birth defects. I don't really agree with this. First, I don't see "abuse" of the system being a major problem that needs to be defended against. If someone wants to destroy their future health by Homering, let 'em. They aren't extending their life by eating themselves to death. But even if that's…

> First, I don't see "abuse" of the system being a major problem that needs to be defended against. If someone wants to destroy their future health by Homering, let 'em. They aren't extending their life by eating themselves to death.

Absolutely. No one should have to pay for it, though.

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Post by bowsamic »

tayo42 wrote: post #439
bowsamic wrote: post #400

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Why would I find a different gym just because people around me aren't lifting as much as you want them to be? I'm a 28 year old man and I can only bench 35kg (~77lbs) so why would I want to be around a bunch of people lifting 100kg+? > If he MAXED out at a 225 bench, a 325 deadlift and a 275 squat, he has no business really talking about this sort of stuff. You don't even need a structured program to hit those number…

225 is about the low end of taking lifting seriously as a hobby. Hes right, you can get to those lifts without much structure. just eating right, and being consistent for a couple years will get you there without trying to optimize beginner programs. Your view of what can be done in the gym is distorted by the gym you are in.

Why should I take lifting seriously as a hobby? What has lifting as a hobby got to do with anything? I don’t want to lift as a hobby if it means I’m doing it wrong until 100kg

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Post by zer8k »

citruscomputing wrote: post #392
zer8k wrote: post #345

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> I feel like the biggest thing the US could do is remove means-testing from our disability aid programs. The problem isn't the means testing the problem is it's applied with broad strokes like all well meaning but inevitably awful government work. First, everyone pays into disability. So everyone should be able to get their share when necessary. Second, means testing includes things like housing, retirement accounts…

Something my therapist pointed out to me is that obesity is directly linked to childhood and intergenerational trauma; calling it self-inflicted is not accurate. Even if we're focused on healthy eating, food deserts exist. No man is an island, &c. Also, to cite an HN darling[0], obesity is, at the very least, a lot stranger and more complicated than CICO. > we also need to prevent the exploitation of disability progr…

> calling it self-inflicted is not accurate

Controlling the motion of your hand to your mouth is entirely within the powers of even amoeba. No one forced you to eat yourself to death.

It's strange how we are so tolerant of the obese but alcoholics who climb into a bottle because of PTSD are considered derelicts. "Healthy at any size" has been the most effective form of long term population control.

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Post by EchoReflection »

226_ebro_treaty wrote: post #292
Justsignedup wrote: post #279

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My fiance had intercranial hypertension. Which is a complex way of saying "we don't know the root cause of why your spinal fluid is causing so much pressure in your head that you want to take a ice pick and poke a hole in it!" which also decreases EVERYTHING due to brain pressure, so more tired, less ability to think, less sensitive to all senses, less emotional control (especially because you're in constant pain / f…

Hi, this was enlightening. I'm a dude who has IIH myself for now almost half a decade and I was at no point told this could reduce my cognitive abilities. I take Diamox just in case (to reduce the intracranial fluid). It was a heering experience to get this diagnosed. One day all of a sudden my head started hurting and didn't stop, for months. But I had no other symptoms so doctors didn't take me seriously and my neu…

I am not really in IT either, although for a few years I worked for a software company (as customer support, not programming or engineering). I've only ever posted 2 things here, and they were things I was sharing, not my own writing:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230212152245/https://www.gigab...

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfkem5e5Iqg

(https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=EchoReflection)

In 2013 I was in a very serious motorcycle accident (coma for 1 month, 2 broken legs, broken hip, broken left arm, several broken ribs, collapsed lung, multiple skull fractures, inner ear bones damaged on both sides. My brain damage was such that my short-term memory was basically zero for a long time, as well as damaged nerves that control vision. The road to recovery was/is long, I still have what are referred to in the medical world as "sequelae", which just means "ongoing effects or symptoms", but, long-story-short, I really, really, really believe that we can all improve our lives and our brains if we A: want to, and B: try. I highly, highly recommend the book "Atomic Habits" by James Clear: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/atomic-habits-an-easy--proven-...

Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/Atomic-Habits-Audiobook/152477926...

And Jordan Peterson's books "Maps of Meaning" and "12 Rules for Life" were pretty life-changing.

Jordan Peterson has a LOT of really helpful content on YouTube (a lot of people don't like him bc I guess he's kind of "conservative", but I think it's more the case that he thinks postmodernism and "wokism" are detrimental to a healthy society.

https://www.youtube.com/@JordanBPeterson

Andrew Huberman has a lot of great, helpful videos as well. https://www.youtube.com/@hubermanlab

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequela

Good luck on your journey.

Re: We’re all just temporarily abled

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Post by itsmartapuntocm »

kibwen wrote: post #272
k__ wrote: post #215

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I see. I still hear pretty well, I just also hear a constant high pitched sound, but it isn't very loud.

Some people have tinnitus worse than others, making it harder for them to ignore. In addition, some people become acclimated to it; my tinnitus used to make it impossible to sleep without some form of white noise, but nowadays I only remember that it's there when I read comment threads about people discussing their tinnitus. Time for some white noise...

Same here. Reading about people anguishing about it online only made me sink further into despair about it. And white noise, while it helped at first, eventually became sort of a crutch and didn’t really help me get over it in the long term.

What eventually worked for me ironically was reading a study that the vast majority of people with tinnitus do improve over time, whether it’s an actual reduction in the noise or at least the perception of it. Tinnitus is funny in that it bothers us because the brain sees a sound it is creating itself as a threat, and eventually it learns to longer treat itself that way.

Mine did eventually get better. I don’t know if it actually got better, or if I just stopped caring about it so much. But I do enjoy silence again because for me, this is my new form of silence. It’s still there in some form, and some days like when I’m stressed it is noticeably louder. But it no longer bothers me.

Re: We’re all just temporarily abled

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Post by JeremyNT »

flangola7 wrote: post #168
k__ wrote: post #53

Before my 30s all my injuries took a week or two to heal. Now, I'm running around months with a pulled muscle. I don't even get them from lifting too heavy in the gym, I usually get them when I rotate in the dumbest possible way, grabbing some paper in the office.

Why are/were you regularly being injured!?

I'm not OP but I'm in my 40s and their tale is very familiar to me.

If you live an active lifestyle in your 20s and 30s and try to keep up with the same pace as you age, over time you will just find yourself "tweaking" things. This could be small injuries, like a pulled muscle, or tendonitis, or joint pain.

You are still physically capable of many of the same things, but if you deviate from the "happy path" injury is much more likely and takes way longer to heal.

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