ZenAlex

I appreciate your honest response about this.

Don't expect me to provide a detailed response if you've literally just googled "Why not to be vegan" and just copied and pasted a crappy response like this. I've been vegan for 7 years. I've got blood tests. I'm not deficient in anything. Veganism is not a nutritionally deficient diet, and world health organisations have recognised it as a nutritionally sufficient diet. You can get everything you need from plants. Why do you need to justify your food choices based on what you can theoretically do without - Because eating animal products and contributing the exploitation of animals without a very good reason is immoral and also bad for the environment. The fact that you have to ask why a Vegan would typically go vegan makes me think you've not really researched this subject, if that wasn't already obvious by your cut and paste crap above about what you supposedly cannot get as a vegan. Why do you have this slave mentality? Wtf are you talking about? Also I don't get any cravings.

Vegan here Humans are opportunistic omnivores, we eat what we can get our hands on. That being said, you don't need animal products to meet your nutritional requirements if the plants are available to you, this is a fact. There is not a single thing that I cannot get while being vegan. All I need is 1-2 supplements and I'm fine. Been vegan for over 7 years, blood tests are fine. I get veganism is harder for some people, and not everyone's bodies react the same, so some people may struggle to make it work practically. I don't preach on anyone, all my acquaintances are meat eaters, I'm not a dick about it. Eating meat is not essential for a lot of people who have the plants available to them. It all depends on circumstance. If not fully vegan, then at least going more plant based would definitely be better for the environment. Omega 3 is often supplemented through cod liver oil or plant based alternatives. You're either getting it naturally from fish or nuts/seeds, and many people eat neither.

Hi, I've been trying to resolve my mental health issues, and now live a super healthy lifestyle. No alcohol, no drugs, no porn, minimal junk, no video games, no regular TV, I spend more time outside and eating a healthy diet etc. I've got to therapy but it didn't do anything for me. I found all these changes have made me feel better, however no matter how healthy, self aware, mindful I am, although I can feel some satisfaction from life, it never quite feels the same as it did about 10 years ago before the worst of my depression/anxiety kicked it. I remember how I used to live. I had some healthy habits, but I used to video game and drink regularly. I'm concerned I may have overstimulated myself into numbness, as it does feel like I am numb to life and no matter how healthy I live, I never feel as alive as I did when I was younger. I'm in my 30's now. I try to focus on moving forward, not looking back, but every so often I get moments of feeling alive and emotional, and now I realise I feel emotionless most of the time. Symptoms - - Low motivation. If I live healthy lifestyle, I can be somewhat motivated sometimes, but by default I feel very low motivation - Emotional flatness. - Higher levels of irritability. - Great difficulty feeling stimulated by life. Things don't feel exciting to me. If I live the very heathy lifestyle, I can appreciate what I have, and if this is the best I can get, then I can accept it and be grateful for it. It can take some satisfaction from life and not suffer much. But it's like around age 22-23 I switch flipped in me and I felt different for seemingly no reason.

@Leo Gura

@leogura. You guys are missing the point of what I'm saying. You're taking the coin flip comparison too literally. I'm saying an uninformed person could have chosen the right side here, and I don't believe all the info regarding this virus was made available to make a truly informed decision. I'm saying that there was info available to take a risk on, but it was a risk either way, which is a reasonable position to have. Whether you took the vaccine or didn't take it, you were taking a risk. There are smart and dumb people on each side.

Doctor.

What the hell....

The Whale. Those shrimps could feed many animals, not just one whale.

How to prevent World War 3?

You can choose how to manage them though

ok

I believe in Abortion up to a certain point that we hopefully can do our best to decide on, supported by science, where the fetus can be considered an unborn baby with a strong possibility of survival outside of the womb therefore deserving of human rights and protected.

Yeah but outside of it's natural form it's harmful. There's a difference between sugar from fruit and sugar from candy. Your body processes it differently.

The only thing that gives anything meaning is feelings, and AI has none, unless we give them feelings.

If you're 18+, do whatever you want to your body. If you're a kid, you should get mental health support and support groups etc. I don't agree with giving kids drugs and other medical treatments that can have negatives, because I do not believe kids can consent to it. It feels wrong.

That Adeptus guy looks 40 and 80 at the same time.

I think OP expects this place to be the holy grail of knowledge.

I got the initial two vax, but denying the boosters. The reality is it was a risk either way, neither side should walk away smug about this. You could flip a coin and choose the right side, it doesn't mean you chose the right side due to being more informed.

If you're really concerned with health on a vegan diet you shouldn't be relying on mock meats/highly processed foods to begin with.

My advice , If you want to make veganism work, don't bother with these 7 day, 30 day challenges. Gradually take animal products from your diet. I've been vegan for 7 years, blood tested fine, It took me 6 months to go from meat eater, vegetarian and then vegan. Any sudden change to your diet may impact you negatively.

You have to give these things time to kick in. You wont be aggressive and irritable forever, it's a temporary period of discomfort. But tbh if you can get to the state where you're jerking off occasionally that might be the best for you. Just stop fapping to porn regularly. This is why nofap has a 90 day challenge, give it time to kick in.

There's no such thing really as a life purpose, you have a purpose once you become useful to something other than yourself, and that can be in many different ways.

So basically just embrace your dark side. Accept your animal nature, and be ruthless if necessary.

So basically, I started to feel dead inside around age 23. It was quite random, I just felt differently one day. I felt by default more anxious, discontent and depressed. From age 27-now I've made a lot of changes and live a super healthy lifestyle. I've given up a lot of things I used to do like video games and watching TV regularly, as well giving up regular alcohol and eat healthy. All these changes have gradually made me feel better, and have sparked a bit of life in me. But no matter how healthy and self aware I am, although I'm better than I was, that switch that flipped in me at around age 23... has never quite flipped back. I know I can never been like I was because I'm now 8 years older, but I wonder if there's anything you guys could suggest to make me feel more alive than I am? I feel OK, I don't suffer much, but I feel a bit void of feeling a lot of the time despite being over the worst of it. I've tried different diets, exercise, making sure I'm meeting all of my nutritional requirements, gotten blood tests, meditation, hiking outside etc etc. All of them help. I don't expect to be as alive as I was a kid, but just 20-30% more feeling would do. I feel relaxed and calm, but still quite numb. I never getting excited for much, and when good things happen, I feel a small percentage of what I used to feel.