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· Jan 10

here is my tentative recommendation for magnesium glycinate so far: it appears to be making me more anxious but in a good way specifically i suspect the anxiety is buried psychological material that i haven't felt safe enough to work with coming up

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still getting little triggers but they're milder and easier to deal with, haven't had to bawl my eyes out or scream my throat hoarse in quite awhile it's nice but also confusing because now i have to figure out new things to do 😅

the magnesium plausibly provided momentum making all the other stuff i've been doing easier. everything generally feels easier and less scary to do now. going to the pool was easy instead of too anxiety-inducing like when i first had the idea months ago

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· Mar 18

wow i can just go to the pool whenever i want wtf

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i can't find it because he went private at some point which apparently permanently wrecks your tweet searchability but

@sadalsvvd

said something about how magnesium made his mental health "so stable it's a little boring" and yeah it's kinda like that 😅

i guess i thought this was obvious for some reason but *also*: for most of january and february i was constantly processing a ton of emotions that kept coming up, sometimes triggered by the magnesium (!?). bio-emotive, IFS, IPF, SE, expanded awareness were the heavy hitters

i think that put me in a good position to relax and open up wrt

@tpotvibecamp

b/c i wasn't holding a ton of emotions about other stuff, and then vibecamp itself was also both really soothing and really energizing so: hard to say how much was due to *just* the magnesium

spending more time outdoors looking at ducks and stuff has also i think been quietly helpful. generally over the last few months i've gotten a lot more sold on physical and mental / emotional / spiritual health not being separate

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· Mar 16

we’re sunset buddies

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the process of recovering from depression has felt more like recovering from an illness than i would have guessed, so i retract half of this old tweet. a lot of what i've been doing feels like "rehabilitation"; relearning how to use my body and mind

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· Feb 3, 2021

mental illnesses aren't mental and they aren't illnesses

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Stephen Fox

@foxjstephen

I think magnesium helped with my depression as well. What I grapple with these days is choosing to *not* feel disappointment, when we're like 🤞🏽. What's great is my prevailing over disappoinment (and being too busy to watch the news) seems to align with life getting WAY better.