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Life Advice / Re: Getting Stressed Over Nothing
« on: December 20, 2010, 11:34:11 am »
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There are several different physical sources of the stress response. The first is the standard fight/flight hormonal response. The second is how stimulated your nervous system is. There are more, but they're harder to categorize.
The signs of happiness are all signs of a self-stimulated nervous system. This causes small muscle contractions that cause a person to stand straight, shoulders back, smiling, and so forth. It further causes a person to walk/run much faster and even think faster. it's this reason that before sports games the teams cheer each other on and give motivational speaches - it gives better performance. It's also one of the reasons (though not hte only reason) that exercise is useful to depressed people. It works both ways, so if you walk quickly (try 120 steps/minute, it's hard to keep up), then you should feel a little better.
After 6 weeks of doing this all the time, the energy-producing parts of your cells will actually multiply to compensate for the extra energy your using. Thus if you keep this up (for about 6 weeks), it will become easier to maintain and you'll in general have more energy.
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I'm not sure if you actually have a fight/flight response going on here. What you're describing sounds more like normal depression. However, I'll list a few things to combat that anyways. The system that combats that response also causes erections, sleep, digestion, salivation, deficating and urinating. For some reason I doni't know, it also responds to deep breathing. You can't control it directly, but you can control it through behavior (which your hormones just follow). I'd suggest you get laid if possible, eat, poop, and sleep. Oh wait, you do those anyways? well try deep breathing.
There are several different physical sources of the stress response. The first is the standard fight/flight hormonal response. The second is how stimulated your nervous system is. There are more, but they're harder to categorize.
The signs of happiness are all signs of a self-stimulated nervous system. This causes small muscle contractions that cause a person to stand straight, shoulders back, smiling, and so forth. It further causes a person to walk/run much faster and even think faster. it's this reason that before sports games the teams cheer each other on and give motivational speaches - it gives better performance. It's also one of the reasons (though not hte only reason) that exercise is useful to depressed people. It works both ways, so if you walk quickly (try 120 steps/minute, it's hard to keep up), then you should feel a little better.
After 6 weeks of doing this all the time, the energy-producing parts of your cells will actually multiply to compensate for the extra energy your using. Thus if you keep this up (for about 6 weeks), it will become easier to maintain and you'll in general have more energy.
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I'm not sure if you actually have a fight/flight response going on here. What you're describing sounds more like normal depression. However, I'll list a few things to combat that anyways. The system that combats that response also causes erections, sleep, digestion, salivation, deficating and urinating. For some reason I doni't know, it also responds to deep breathing. You can't control it directly, but you can control it through behavior (which your hormones just follow). I'd suggest you get laid if possible, eat, poop, and sleep. Oh wait, you do those anyways? well try deep breathing.