one of the experiences that fed into my enthusiasm for feeling my feelings etc. was being extremely confused about the energy economics of feeling depressed / "low on spoons"
like i could not believe that the raw biological energy was unavailable, given that i had plentiful food
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so it seemed to me that the only way i could possibly ever feel "low energy" despite having as much raw biological energy as i could ask for is that there were regulatory mechanisms actively preventing me from using the energy i had
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and i eventually found such a mechanism, namely, the freeze response, which was more than satisfactory as an explanation of my own low-energy states for a long time
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but recent experiments with my diet like cutting out seed oils and fasting a bit, plus reading 's website, suggests a quite different possible cause of "low energy": the body could be struggling to digest food effectively
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Same mechanism! In more activated states, digestion isn't working very well. (It's even on the infographic you shared!)
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haha w e l p