• mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Source is Pictures For Sad Children, if anyone’s unfamiliar. Not that it’s been available online in the last decade.

  • li10@feddit.ukEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Honestly, that kinda happened to me.

    Well, I had a blood test because I was having heart palpitations and under extreme stress, so not exactly “just collapsed”. But they found I have hypothyroidism, and life’s much better and much easier with the medication.

    Turns out you’re not supposed to feel tired after doing nothing, sleep 12 hours, then wake up tired…

    Annoyingly this must’ve been an issue for years, but I was raised to “shut up and get on with it”, and told the problem was that I’m “just lazy” :/

    • alekwithak@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Turns out you’re not supposed to feel tired after doing nothing, sleep 12 hours, then wake up tired…

      Source?

  • Album@lemmy.caEnglish
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    11 months ago

    That’s basically what therapy is. The lack of vitamin is the damage you received in your childhood that you just thought was normal.

    Then you actually recount the experience to a therapist and they tell you how not normal that is and help you to recognize the fact that you had to go through that without support and that the way you are is because you had to cope to support yourself to survive when no one else was there for you.

    Once you know it then you can tell all your friends and get them to awe at your seemingly inhuman perseverance.

    • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Living through trauma isn’t really a super power. And I wouldn’t wish what happened to me on anyone. In fact, I don’t usually share what happened to me with anyone but my therapist and my wife.

    • Cypher@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I’m curious, are you American? It seems to be such a phenomenon that Americans love talking about therapy.

      I find it perplexing.

  • stoly@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Magnesium for me. I don’t know why but it makes my brain work better. I feel horribly anxious, depressed, and intolerant of others when I forget to take it for more than three days or so.

    • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.socialEnglish
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      11 months ago

      My wife started giving me her electrolyte mix and feeding me sardines everyday and I can’t tell you how much better I feel

      It has magnesium in it, but I think it’s the particular form of potassium in it that’s hitting my deficiency. It tastes like potatoes and it’s… I guess it’s not bad. Like drinking starch water.

      Shout-out to my wife who i’d probably whither away and die without.