Eh, I was tired and sad all the time as a kid too. At least now I have autonomy and don't have to live with crazy people.
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I’m guessing you mean directly living because it seems a fair bit have become crazy.
Musta meant share housing with crazy people.
Because we all have to live with crazy people, even more so if you have to work services or retail.
And I though tumblr was bad at reading comprehension.
I feel that there's language barriers on Lemmy sometimes. Very diverse group here. I didn't think for a second if you meant "live on this planet with crazy people" or "live in a house with crazy people" - seemed obvious to me the latter is what you meant, but maybe this is expressed differently in Germany or other countries.
I was talking about being a child with no autonomy stuck in a house with my crazy parents.
Also, chips make you fat now.
And they give you a headache if you eat them at the wrong time
My apple watch has alerted me to the fact that if I eat a really salty meal- like a burger and fries, or a whole bag of kettle chips- my heart rate increases by about 40 beats per minute. It's like "Hey... you don't seem to have moved and your heart is going bananas. You ok bro?"
You might have high blood pressure.
Normal blood pressure, I get it checked every two weeks for an unrelated thing, just salt sensitive.
You might have a glitter sensitivity as well
That does seem like something I should look into..
Or just be dehydrated. Salt dehydrates you and most people are already mildly dehydrated at most times. Dehydration can do a lot of shit to the human body, hydro homies wasn't just a joke subreddit!
Very true. Humans find it hard to distinguish between thirsty and hungry.
For me, if I’m getting a headache I’m likely not drinking enough water. Which if I’m not careful will become a migraine and wreck me.
Hold up can you elaborate?
Because I definitely have noticed sometimes getting chip headaches and sometimes not and if it’s time-based I want to know more.
For me, I can take chips on an empty stomach all right around breakfast time (not that I would generally want to). Later in the day, if I don't eat protein or fat before eating the chips, I'll get a headache and joint pain. In the evening, I'll often get pain regardless of what I eat.
It is my #2 priority as a dad that I impart upon them that they not rush into being an adult.
When I was a kid, I really wanted to grow up quickly. I was autistic and did well in school, but I didn't understand the other kids socially. My parents wanted me to move up a year. The school principal didn't want that, she wanted me to stay with the kids my age so I could learn to relate to them. But I got moved up anyway, and I immediately started doing better. The older kids were more logical, because of their developed brains, and I understood them better. The older my peer group gets, the better I understand other people. Being a grownup is awesome!
But during my adolescent years, I started suffering from depression. Then I realised I was trans. I transitioned, and became a happier person than I'd ever been as a kid. I was only able to transition because I had more knowledge about how the world works, and I was in charge of my own medical affairs. Being a grownup is awesome!
Some kids just aren't meant to be kids. Or at least, they aren't meant to be treated the way our society treats kids. Children have little knowledge, no money, and no freedom. In many ways they are the most oppressed class of our society, as Bahamian-American immigrant and political scientist, Foreign, recently said. If a kid doesn't like being a kid, I'm inclined to take their judgement at face value. Being a kid does suck if you can't get your needs met and your level of ability is beyond your peers.
Imagine having to relive middle school. Yeah, that's what every day in the life of a child is like. Fuck that.
I wanna know where you are that adults make sense and behave logically.
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Yup... dealt with a lot of similar stuff as a kid...
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For as long as I could remember I couldn't wait to "grow up".
I still haven't grown up.
But seriously thanks and good job dad, I know I have wished I had someone to explain and remind me how special childhood was when I was a child.
Don’t sleep on getting enough rest (if you can, obviously)
Sleep is your superpower | 21,818,283 views | Matt Walker | TED2019
Scumbag body wakes up at quarter after 5 for no reason >:(
You guys are sad all the time???
I refer to my pending heart attack in 30 years lovingly.
That sweet release.
You think you got another 30 years? The water wars are gonna claim a lot of people
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I alternate between being sad, being resentful, and giggling at memes.
I wouldn’t say sad all the time but rarely happy. Fluctuate between sad and meh
I mainly fluctuate between sad, angry, frustrated, and feeling defeated. I try to ignore everything... When I'm successful in ignoring things, that's my happy time.
Between work stress, financial stress, all the other stress, etc.... I don't get to be happy often. I usually settle for "not unhappy" or similar. I've become quite numb over the years and it takes a lot to motivate me to feel at all. Life just sucks too hard.
Such is being middle class.
I know, I know okay that there are many people in bad situations or going through acute events that are terrible, and people with physiological depression but for many other people this negative malaise is self-inflicted. So many people who could be happy are focusing on and amplifying all negative parts of life, doomscrolling online, and then not taking the initiative to socialize or do things that would make them happy. This is reinforced by a culture where it is in vogue to play up your misery, and it turns into a game of one upsmanship.
The average person reading this can actually be happy, have friends, and do things instead of wallowing in a mental cage. I'm begging and pleading with people to make an effort to break out of this.
I wouldn't call trying to make plans with friends and meet new people then end up being ghosted or ditched as not taking initiative to socialize but alrighty. It's exhausting, and for nothing to come out of it for months on end makes it seem pointless.
If you are being ghosted for months, it is time for a new approach.
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Right, being sad all the time is not a normal part of being an adult. If you are, then make some time to find stuff that makes you happy. I recommend sex, drugs, and rock & roll.
I'm not disagreeing but if it were as easy as that to be happy, then a lot more adults would be.
Sinking into an unhappy rut is easy. Being proactive takes effort.
Every time I see these "haha everything is miserable am I right?" kind of memes I reflexively feel a desire to push against it.
I currently see a therapist and have made serious changes in my life in the last year. Gratitude and things like that are things you can develop and practice. Yes depression and mental illness is real but it's incredible the amount of change you can experience by consciously trying, if that includes therapists and medication then so be it.
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Used to be sad and tired as well.
Ditched unhealthy food. Started running. Started losing weight. Started being active.
I used to sleep 8 to 11 hrs. Anything less and I'd be a wreck. Now I sleep 6hrs a night, even on the weekends and I'm good to go at 6am. It drives my GF nuts.
For me it was literally that "easy".
I’m sad and tired. I did what you did (not a runner, I prefer lifting, but the point is the same. Eat well and work the body), and physically I’m in the best health of my life but this world is shit and it makes me sad and tired. For me, it is not that simple. No amount of exercise and healthy diet makes me less sad or tired.
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Whoever invents a pill to stop physical aging at 25 will be increadibly rich
I hear one was invented years ago. I think it was called a cyanide pill or something like that.
Well, you are not wrong....
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1 and 2 may be causing 3 and 4 but I'm no doctor and all 5 apply to me so who am I to judge
Some kids have 3 and 4.
I have celiac and it's amazing how big of a deal being low in one (or more) vitamins can be. I have gotten deficient often enough that I can almost recognize each type of tiredness from my most common deficiencies. Being tired from anemia/low iron is definitely different than being tired from a vitamin b deficiency, for instance. And being simultaneously deficient in vitamins that work together - like calcium and magnesium, or vitamins a, d, e, and k - also feels different than being deficient in just 1 of these vitamins.
When people tell me they crave a lot of certain foods, that's a sign that their body wants whatever vitamin is in that food. If your body hasn't tried a lot of other healthier foods, it won't have learned their nutritional content and won't crave it. Potatoes (in potato chips) contain small amounts of metals like copper, zinc, lithium, iron. Corn similarly has vitamins, I do not eat much corn so idk what all it has in it.
However, just because you're getting a tiny bit of zinc from a whole bag, doesn't make the chips good for you. They come with other nutrients including sodium which are excessive and should be balanced with a good potassium intake (like a bottle of coconut water). Your body isn't meant to process huge loads of wasteful food, and that comes at a price. Eating more efficiently with more nutrient dense foods is best (especially dark leafy greens which contain chlorophyll which can actually make ATP in your blood stream for basically "free" - free energy).
Last, we all have different genetics. Not all of us need the exact same diet or vitamins. Some of us literally need extra vitamin A (do you have genes from either the north or south pole, such as Russian or Native American? You might want to take slightly extra vitamin A along with other fat soluble vitamins like vitamin D). And every vitamin is like this, some being more serious than others. Some people can't eat much tyramine without developing possible life threatening brain bleeds and high blood pressure. Olives contain tyramine as does certain types of red wine - many cultures eat these in volume and have no problem but some people just can't.
"You are what you eat" ended up being real wisdom
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