My lived experience is that high stress situations frequently make me feel like just going to sleep.

humanfromearth9 a day ago | parent | next [-]

This may have multiple causes (past experience/trauma, energy levels, existing depression, sleep troubles, anything on the spectrum of autism, like ADHD...).

As far as energy levels go, if you are already tired, you may lack energy to cope with stressful situations, which leads you to procrastinate or even sleep too just not face it. From personal experience, low (just below the lower limit, so nothing seemingly dramatic) vitamin D levels may affect one's energy levels negatively (always tired, brain fog, everything feels hard...), and having appropriate vitamin D levels may already provide one with a clear mind and remove the hardship of dealing with most of what others consider as seemingly simple situations.

You might be depressed because of low energy levels, instead of the other way around.

So, make sure your energy levels are appropriate and that your mitochondria work fine. (Any LLM will provide you with detailed info about energy levels and mitochondria).

Of course, that's only based on personal experience, and I'm a software engineer, not a Doctor.

Have a nice day.

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Cthulhu_ 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

For me it's low stress / passive situations, like listening to presentations or sitting in a meeting where I'm just observing. And that's with good sleep etc.

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gtirloni a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Same if it involves a human yelling. If I'm in my bed while it's happening , I might actually sleep briefly. It becomes impossible to stay awake sometimes.

Other high stress situations involving actually solving something motivates me though.

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vasco 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> My lived experience

What are the other types of experience one might have?

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Cthulhu_ 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Other people's? Like, I don't get meltdowns myself but I've seen others that do.

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vasco 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You misunderstand, their sentence is in the first person, you cannot experience anything in third person.

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krageon 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You have experienced other people's lives? How? Are you a discorporated entity that possesses the living?

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		There's this concept called empathy, and people can share how they experience things. We can also relate our own experiences. So, it might not be a first-hand experience, but we can put ourselves in their shoes. If we see a friend experience something, it becomes a shared experience. When our friends laugh, we laugh too. When they grieve, we grieve with them. Etc

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zen928 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's a nice change of pace around here when people intentionally make themselves the butt of the joke by acting like extremely common phrases are somehow foreign to them. "Lived experience" immediately adds more detail and context to how they obtained their knowledge by explicitly referring to first hand involvement and direct experience rather than potentially from second hand sources or studying, but here you are making a smarmy reply pretending that it was somehow more confusing to the benefit of the rest of us who might take your attempt at quips as humorous. Thanks for the laugh!

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vasco 15 hours ago | parent [-]

No problem friend, happy to help. I still think it's a stupid phrase, you don't have anyone else's experience and you're never not alive to experience anything. All it does is "I'm trying to make my point stronger by making you feel bad about questioning it because I'm going to reply that you can't question what I said"

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plumb_bob_00 15 hours ago | parent [-]

I guess you could take the idea that someone has an experience that may be different to yours and that you aren't able to dictate as a personal affront rather than a plain fact, but I recommend against it. That doesn't seem interesting or productive, it seems like getting worked up over something beyond your control and of no consequence.

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vasco 13 hours ago | parent [-]

> I guess you could take the idea that someone has an experience that may be different to yours

I do as a default because it is, that's why the sentence is tautological - which was my point. There's also a difference between expressing an opinion and being "worked up".

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doka_smoka 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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