• Mechaguana@programming.dev
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    17 hours ago

    THE REAL ANSWER IS EXERCISE ITS ALWAYS EXERCISE IM EVEN MORE UPSET THAN YOU ARE AAAARGH FUCK EXERCISE AND ITS MEASURABLE QUALITY OF LIFE BENEFITS ARRRGH

    • Dasus@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      Is the answer exercise when you’ve a problem with getting enough nutrition out of the food you eat?

      I bet for someone not having fats absorb properly sounds like a positive, but if you had to sit on the shitter as much as I do, I think you’d reconsider.

      I’ve yet to find an exercise that would help.

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    That’s my mother in a nutshell.

    TBI when I was 7, surgery was scheduled to reduce swelling on my brain, and she instead opted to feed me smoothies of nothing but raw spinach and water. Also took me to some kind of new age healer.

    So yeah, thanks mom.

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        It certainly was.

        Much worse is that she wasn’t just some dyed in the wool hippie, but a fairly well known microbiologist. So she had at least a passing acquaintance with the scientific method.

        At least she got me vaccinated.

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          but a fairly well known microbiologist

          Holy shit I’m worried for (what I assume are American) scientific circles.

          Idk why she’d forgo the actual medical treatments. Did she consider them risky or what?

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            Scientific rigor in one aspect of life does not preclude magical thinking in another. Sadly.

            Healthy skepticism is a lifestyle.

            She’s always been a believer in magical nonsense. My dad is a hardcore Catholic… to the point where he had to make sure there was a church nearby when he want on vacations around the world, which they did quite frequently. My mother is an irreligious Jew who believes in ANY kind of woo based bullshit she stumbles across. Astrology, psychic healing, seeing auras, channeling. All of the major bullshit that came to prominence in the new age movement (thanks Ms Blavatsky).

            As such, I believe in nothing of the metaphysical nor spiritual. It’s all copium against the glory of our universe that cares nothing for our existence.

    • JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz
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      6 hours ago

      Or my mom trying to cure my autism with a gluten free diet and trying to prove my incompetence to everyone (including my primary and high school) even when I explicitly asked her not to. Definitely better than your example, but I’m really looking forward to fucking off to college and hopefully never returning home.

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        Definitely strains of my stepdaughter and her son.

        I don’t know if/where he is on the spectrum, though there’s definitely a dash of undiagnosed bipolar with a heavy dose of self medication now. But as a kid, his rage issues were attributed to a WIDE variety of causes:

        • autism
        • oppositional defiance disorder
        • ADHD
        • gluten allergy
        • some sort her doctor ordered during her c-section
        • etc

        Ignoring that most of it stemmed from abandonment issues with her. She only paid attention when he had a meltdown, so he very quickly figured out that it was the surefire way to get something from her.

        All so she could feel less guilty about being a miserable parent. Yay.

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    2 days ago

    Also if your vegan, you need the meat vitamins to be healthy and if you’re not vegan you should definitely go vegan because of the meat inflammation.

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    Sending love <3. Yeah society and healthcare still really favors immediate care over chronic illnesses even though the majority of adults have a chronic illness and chronic illnesses are major players in suffering and dying. I hope you found/will find a good self-advocacy group!

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      Which is a primary reason for using meditation and essential oils to treat chronic pain. A core feature of any treatment for any chronic condition is learning to live with it.

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    I have a chronic but minor health condition that doesn’t come up much and the other day was treated to something like this by none other than the threadiverse’s first. I expected better for some reason.