sappho

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[–] sappho@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Possibly there is something about the beer that you're reacting to. Like, beer has gluten in it. If you have a sensitivity to gluten you get an inflammatory reaction, and a hangover is a inflammatory response too, so it might just feel like a worse hangover instead of a more obvious gastrointestinal sensitivity.

[–] sappho@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago (4 children)

There is a major oversight here that precludes proper representation. Chocolate is not a type of milk, it's a characteristic of milk.

Sincerely, a chocolate almond and chocolate soy milk enjoyer.

[–] sappho@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

I do this too and I think it's great. I still have my screenshots from my 3DS, and seeing my old Animal Crossing town is really nostalgic.

[–] sappho@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And the way to prevent it is vaccination, and multiple vaccination is better than single to prevent long COVID.

Fun fact, if you say the word "mask" in 2024 you will spontaneously combust. Also definitely don't cite the actual statistics on how much vaccination reduces the risk of long covid. It totally doesn't matter. Everything is fine.

Are we going to start seeing people get COVID not from infection, but from themselves in reactivation?

I have been wondering about this for ages. In the past year I have seen a couple people who are uber-isolated (bedbound, no medical care) with long covid testing positive repeatedly with no known exposures. Either they're astronomically unlucky, or...

[–] sappho@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've had similar thoughts about the popularity of the carnivore diet. There are several kinds of gut issues (SIBO, MCAS, other kinds of dysbiosis and sensitivities) that leave meat as one of the easiest things to digest and least likely to trigger symptoms. Especially with uncontrolled COVID spread these days, because it has the ability to cause all of these issues - I think there's tons of people with unrecognized chronic health problems who might find relief fasting/on carnivore essentially because of the elimination diet aspect.

[–] sappho@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)

She adds that “fad diets are very unlikely to take off in societies where there are food shortages or food insecurity.”

lil bit of foreshadowing for the coming decade

I used to fast regularly and it made me feel great. Turns out I had celiac and my body was just relieved I was taking a break from poisoning it

[–] sappho@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn, that's so unfortunate. Thank you, I really appreciate the information.

[–] sappho@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How feasible would it be for me to watch and avoid looking at the gore? Like is it random for shock value, or is it in scenes where I could reasonably guess that gore will appear and look away from the screen for a while?

I ask because I have this fun kind of mirror synesthesia where if I see people being hurt, my brain will occasionally decide to simulate the pain for me on the same body part, and it gets stuck like that for 15-20 minutes before fading. It can make shows really uncomfortable to watch.

[–] sappho@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm familiar with PolyBio because I have long covid and I follow organizations that are doing studies and looking for treatments. My impression thus far has been that they're doing pretty promising research (unlike the government's RECOVER trials, which have been inadequate and disappointing). Viral persistence as a root cause of long covid is something they're investigating.

[–] sappho@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a similar thing where I lost my love for/ability to write creatively. For me the origin was a bit different - I had some strange experiences with multiple English teachers who like, identified me as a "gifted" kid and in need of extra attention, and then used me as a little ego-booster. They put additional pressure on me to perform that the other kids didn't get, assigned me extra/different assignments from the rest of the class, and then consistently singled me out as a "good example" in a way that made all my classmates despise me. I just wanted to be invisible, but if I didn't go along with what they wanted, or continue to produce the kind of work they had come to expect from me, they got horribly disappointed and took it as a personal insult to their teaching ability and thus to their very identity. I was just a kid, so I internalized that my inability to meet these distorted expectations was literally harming the adults in my life.

It was strange and bad and scary. I was already being abused at home and the extra bullying did not help. In the end it made me so anxious about writing anything and having it be seen by others. I used to have panic attacks about writing ordinary essays. I have gone many years without writing anything for fun, when it was my childhood dream to be an author.

But this isn't the kind of thing that most people think of as capital-T trauma, so I put off addressing my feelings about it for a long time. I'm still working through it today - I haven't fully reclaimed my creativity yet. But I have made very meaningful progress and it's given me a lot of hope. The key for me was addressing it in the way I addressed my other sources of childhood trauma. For me, that's been trauma therapy but also breathwork, somatic techniques, and the use of entheogens in community.

Aside from trauma healing, I've also tried some clever ways to be creative while circumventing my fear of writing. One of these is solo TTRPGs. They are a great way to experience a story of your own making, building up characters and a complex world, without any expectation to write it out and show it to others.

The other strategy I've been using is to write in another language. I use toki pona, mostly because I have pretty severe cognitive impairment from long covid, and so it was the only language I felt I could reasonably achieve fluency in. Writing in not-English is like using a room in my head where all the other trauma never happened.

Possibly these specific workarounds won't work for you, but maybe they will give you some ideas of other creative ways you can circumvent the anxiety response you currently have. I think of my creativity as something like an injured kitten, who needs to be gently coaxed to trust me again. Anything I can do to get her playing is a step in the right direction.

[–] sappho@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think most people are extremely numb. Maybe emotionally just to get through the day, maybe as a result of the constant barrage of stimulation we get online. So media portrays things that are horrific and shocking because it's the only thing that makes anyone feel anything.

I can't tolerate it personally. I have to skip out on a lot of media that is popular these days because it's just too brutal for me. But I am probably an outlier for neurodivergent reasons (mirror-pain synesthesia, high affective empathy).

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