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my big broscience medical conspiracy theory is that tonnes of things are downstream of stress (which have ton tonnes of upstream things- environment, relationships, etc). I believe that chronic stress is more injurious to health than smoking, seed oils, microplastics…

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@QiaochuYuan

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my synthesis here is that smoking, seed oils, microplastics, etc. etc. etc. are all themselves different forms of chronic stress; it all seems like kinda the same playing field to me

8:54 PM · Apr 11, 2022Twitter Web App

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this is a good take

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I agree in the sense that my decades-long dangerous dalliance with nicotine seems to be a symptom of something

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counter-take I had a teacher who said that stress isn't bad, it's stress combined with meaninglessness that kills the organism. stress taken on joyfully as something meaningful to work through and grow through, he maintained, was healthy. he was a healthy mf

angLerfish

@anglerfish01

Apr 11

I have avoidant personality disorder. Avoiding stress is probably not good advice for me!

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yep and also our ability to cut out stressors is itself impaired by other stressors. it's all very tangled. and I feel the most effective way out is addressing the root cause that makes us vulnerable to all stressors — childhood trauma

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a thin film of microdukkha all over my skin and organs

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That's somewhat like comparing a marmoset to a gorilla and going "but they're both primates it's all the same". My brother in tweets, no. One can rip you in half.

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