woke up this morning feeling sad/miserable/weepy for no reason, like i wanted to cuddle in a ball and die
then 20 min later i started getting body temperature flashes and feeling physically woozy. crazy to have *mood* be an initial symptom of getting sick!
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'Sickness behavior' is a standard initial response to potential infection across many species, that reorganizes the organisms' priorities to focus on fighting infection rather than doing other stuff.
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i don't often shill for tech gadgets, but I have to say that since I got an Oura ring I find it way easier to distinguish vague physical malaise from existential terror
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How so? It's pretty expensive, and I'm skeptical about how accurate/useful it is.
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Sickness causes inflammation which causes mood swings. Not all that weird if you really think about it.
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Huh. I get “Hangry”. That’s for sure a mood expression of a biological phenomenon. Maybe similar?
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says emotions are constructed from our efforts to extract meaning (make predictions) from the data of our raw bodily sensations.
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Totally normal and totally weird. The shit we don't understand about our body/mind continuum...
