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How is your sleeping pattern or sleep quality? Have you been under lots of stress recently? These are big factors

idk for sure if I got covid or not, but I think its likely I did considering the symptoms. After I recovered from being sick I had an altered sense of smell/taste. Anything that had vinegar in it had a really awful bleach/chlorine taste to it. I also had clogged up ears for a bit, the pressure in there felt as if I had just come off an airplane. I only noticed these symptoms after I started to recover. First time I've experienced such symptoms from being sick. Is it painful or is it just phlegm build up? I think phlegm build up is common for a while after being sick

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I have experienced something similar. When I get too stressed I get this weird depressive feeling, It's like a general feeling of lingering anxiety. Might be related to cortisol, I don't know for sure. Eating carbs helps but its an unsustainable solution. Getting enough sleep can definitely help, sleep deprivation is very taxing on the body.

Lol how does this fix the problem

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All I will say is that Nahm has helped me the most on this forum. Lots of people here criticizing someone/something they apparently don't understand, which leads to strawmans

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intermittent fasting, this will make you keto/fat adapted and thus eliminate or severely reduce food cravings. It's not about food cravings, its about changing your physiology so that you don't have any cravings to fight against in the first place

haha i love his offer to impersonate Leo

lol im done reading this post and my time is 11:11. hilarious

I have, quite literally, caught my self in the process of dreaming, or entering into a dream. Really, a dream is just a thought or imagination that is extremely immersive, to the point where you start entering into it and identifying with it. Maybe this becomes easier to do during sleep, since you drift off and lose your normal bodily senses that you so often identify with. I have noticed similarities between the imaginations and thoughts we project onto waking reality, and the process of dreaming. They both are things we imagine and identify with. Maybe you could even argue it is the exact same process, just to different degrees.

I had a similar thing happen once, you just gotta own it. I think this type of hurdle is something that will continuously pop up in life until you fully embrace yourself and your personality, without feeling shame or whatever. Also, in a way, it can weed out people you don't want in your life. What's the worst that can happen? If there is some adverse reaction from them, then so be it. Think of it as the universe's way of filtering out what doesn't fit into your life. Don't take it so seriously, everyone has their demons, their private things they keep secret, they just do a better job of hiding it.

It might help to treat it as "voice acting" or as if you're playing some overly enthusiastic character, like a more extroverted version of yourself. And then slowly you can mold yourself into that as social situations arise. Project your voice, don't be timid, act like you're on a radio show being a radio host, and the entire world can hear your voice. It also helps to talk about things you are passionate about, it naturally makes your voice stronger and more powerful, pay attention to that.

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How is the room you sleep in? For me, having white noise like a fan helps significantly. Also, make sure the room is dark and cool, its better to have a cool room than a warm room. Avoid caffeine/stimulants and blue light, you can download a blue light filter if you want. And try not to force yourself to sleep. Also, maybe get in the habit of turning off most lights around you as the sunlight goes down. In a sense, you want the levels of light to match outside as much as possible. This helps a lot IME, probably something to do with melatonin stimulation. Exercise is good but don't do it too close to bed time

That's a pretty cool nuance, didn't know that

How recently did you quit weed? I believe medically this is referred to as PAWS (Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome) and lack of libido is a common symptom.

I've had a phase where I got weird gore dreams as well. Didn't watch any gorey media in that time period either, so it wasnt something my subconscious picked up from some movie irl or something. One of them involved a guy jumping from a tree and then his body just splitting in half with blood and what not, strangely my dream character wasn't really disturbed by any of it. Still have no idea what it meant but it creeped me out for a bit, especially cause I woke up from it at like 3am in the pitch black and I was just left there to contemplate that dream in a pitch black room haha

Well, it's the only book mentioned, so I would assume so Maybe

Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway by Susan Jeffers

Those are the most common symptoms

Depends on your diet

I think it might. I did a 40 hour water fast and it cured my brain fog and anger issues. Some studies, like this one, also seem to indicate this: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2021.708069/full

Does eating food made it feel better, if even temporarily? What about music? Are you often in very stressful situations? I have had experiences of anxiety/depression that lingers after extremely stressful experiences, wondering if it's related. I think it could be related to cortisol, eating a simple carb like bread made it dissipate for me.