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Everybody's metabolism and internal chemistry is slightly different (which is why personalized medicine is slowly becoming a thing), so, whatever works for you I guess.

At least it's helping you.

edit: Practicing calming excersizes like meditation or yoga or whatever you choose may help too because it's all about the state of mind.

Uh. Not all about state of mind. Meditation and whatnot definitely can help even (especially, to an extent) with the more physiological parts, though. It's just entirely possible that it's far from sufficient even if you're very solid in regards to practicing the stuff. Sometimes yo' brain just be fucked up and there ain't much you can do (without outside assistance, so to speak) so far as tricking your body into unfucking itself goes.

... not that trying isn't still pretty helpful, most of the time. It's just probably a good thing to not downplay what aspects seriously can't be controlled, that there are in fact situations where you can't do jack (save cope/suffer, which friggin' blows) about what your body is trying to force your state of mind to be. Even odds I'd be in notably better shape if someone had jammed that down my throat a decade or two ago before I managed it on my own, personally.

tl;dr, the specific wording "all about the state of mind" is something I kinda' hate in reference to anything anti-anxiety or whatev' meds should be involved with.

Ruddy thing comes with that hanging accusation that folks that don't have it are failing primarily because of what they do rather than how their brain is screwing them over.

It is/can be both, but stuff like that and society in general really sodding loves downplaying the latter, which causes a lot more misery for a lot more people than necessary. It ain't all about the state of mind, however pithy the saying is *grumbles*

Ssoooo... anyone else looking forward to not being able to afford replacing their cpu with something lacking the apparently ubiquitous security flaw in more or less every chip made in like the last decade? I know I'm not :V

Lucky you. We're not going to hit 10 until Sunday. As a high. Sunday it's supposed to be a balmy 32.

Oi, luck would be getting that for a bit. Sorta', since it'd probably kill people down here. The reactions of floridians to that sort of thing would be amazing, though.

... also I kinda' like the cold. Twenty below freezing would give me an excuse to wear layers for the first time in decades, plural.

Lot of those investments don't really do anything, though. They're sitting there appreciating but they're not, say, producing a service or dongle of much note, actually housing anyone (or if it is, massively inefficiently so far as people with shelter goes), paying workers (more), and so on. Hell, sometimes they're being leveraged to actively prevent that sort of things. Fundamentally barely any of the money is doing much outside a pretty limited slice of the population, if even that much.

It's stagnant in the sense the amount of hands it's passing through (which is a major part of most active economies) are few, and often hella' limited vertically in regards to what part of the population(s) in question it touches to boot (see: recent industry comments about intending to pass absolutely nothing they get out of the tax scam on to their workers). When part of the money pool isn't swirling around, you get stagnant money. It's maybe not 100% stagnant in every way, shape, or form, but it's pretty still and the effects barely touch the parts of the economy people need to, like. Live and be happy in large numbers and such. Broadening the analogy out to resources as a general thing takes more effort than I got in me at the mo', but it's not that hard to do, I don't believe.

Basically the whole "trickle down doesn't" dealio, really. Money spent by a poor bastard goes all over the place, up and down and sideways (so long as someone doesn't stick it in a pillowcase or offshore bank account or shell company or whatevs, anyway). Chunk of the money rich bastards spend doesn't get around much, which means it's not benefiting many people, either. Money making money more or less does kinda' sod all for most folks, heh. Which generally tends to be pretty undesirable (or eventually unfortunate for many someones).

That advice applies for women with male bosses, or whatever other combination you care to form, as much or more. It's pretty gender neutral advice outside the pronouns, heh.

Why do you need to widen your mattress?

I mean, I don't need to. I just have a substantial amount of bedding I don't really use over the warmer months, massively prefer to sleep with my bed up against a wall, and broadly speaking don't care enough to do much with the stuff besides use it as a foot prop or pillow, so excess bedding has been gradually wedging itself between the mattress and the wall, slowly pushing the mattress off the edge of the bed frame. Ergo, after a bit I've ended up with something somewhat larger than the twin the bed is built as, the wall-side corner made mostly of compacted blankets.

That said, I do tend to sleep with my laptop on the part of the bed I'm not on, so it's kinda' helpful for providing more arm space (and decreasing the likelihood of the laptop getting knocked off).

Uh. Maybe? Sometimes that can be a terrible sign...

Can't recall food explicitly, but I'd swear other stuff (toilet paper?) has been. Hell, unless they changed it near the end, the tax scam pretty explicitly killed a deduction aimed at teachers that spent personal money on things for their students, things that were more often than not consumables of one sort or another.

Like said, food isn't usually involved due to not being taxed at all (the "deduction" is basically wrote in ahead of time by exempting the stuff from sales taxes), but other stuff definitely is.