Carl-Richard

I should probably just take something for the placebo anyway. SSRIs are only 2% more effective than placebo pills.

But then, if the outside is truly a reflection of the inside, what does that look like on the outside? 🤔

You shouldn't be. You were inaccurate in your language, people responded, and then you clarified your statement. It's quite understandable.

What does that mean?

Or just say "it might mean" instead of "it means". There are many reasons for being fat. One possibility could be that they're just not concerned about health and have unhealthy habits. I'm someone who is concerned about health and have healthy habits, but I don't have to exert much self-control to maintain my habits. They're habits — they're generally the default response. Of course, a donut is at some level inherently tempting, and even I might sometimes feel an impulse to eat one if I see one, but people underestimate how much your impulses are dictated by habits. In the last few years, I haven't eaten anything sweet despite seeing it front of me so many times (except when I was essentially forced by my grandmother 😂), so I haven't reinforced that type of stimulus-response. For me, the stimulus-response of seeing something sweet and eating it is just not there to the same extent. On the other hand, what requires a lot of self-control is to break your habits and establish new ones, but once they're established, sticking to them becomes easy.

What if they're fat but also a straight A student?

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How long did you take them for?

There is a song called "Karma" by Swedish progressive Death Metal band "Opeth"

Solipsism can certainly have something to do with the egoic self. There are many different types of solipsism. You just have to clarify which type of solipsism you're talking about. The Absolute type of solipsism this forum is so obsessed about is actually an extremely uncommon type of solipsism in the larger culture, which is why people get so confused when the term is brought up.

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22% is not rare imo. My brother and my mom also gets it.

Man, how does the world not go to complete shit when so many people get Covid and so many people get brain fog for about a month?

Please clean up your grammar.

Different teachers teach using different methods (and teach different methods). Find some other teachers and see if they resonate more with you.

@UnbornTao So what I gather from this conversation (which we've had before and which I don't think will lead to an agreement) is: I think there are methods for reliably increasing the chances of enlightenment, just like all the religious traditions that span back 15000 years, just like all the New Age spiritual teachers who are not Neo-Advaitans (Sadhguru, Rupert Spira, etc.). You think there aren't. You point to the spontaneous and irreducible nature of the realization and argue against the utility of methods, because it's all inherently uncertain, thus we cannot rely on methods. I can understand the impulse of acknowledging the spontaneity or irreducible complexity associated with the realization, but uncertainty does not mean impossibility; it still allows for probability (and distinguishing between different probabilities). In other words, the uncertainty is not the whole story, and fixating on it is no good. Also, while the realization itself is "absolute", there is a relative side to it as well, and treating the realization as only absolute is therefore an unfortunate conflation. If enlightenment was purely absolute, nobody in their right mind would talk to humans in the relative realm trying to wake them up. "What do you mean enlightenment? If it's absolute, then surely I must already be enlightened, right? What must change for that to happen, and what is change but relativity?" As long as we are here as humans, we're using methods, and some are probably better than others.

Meditate at least 1 hour in each sitting, at least once every day.

Become a moderator.

I'm not having weed withdrawals 😂

Remember that we only have to think about things like eating healthy or working out because of modern society. Modern society severely complicates things, mainly because our environment is no longer in alignment with our biological makeup: urban environments, office environments, sitting still all day, not being in the sun, fast food, social media, living alone or with only a small number of people. It's a miracle we are able to get out of bed at all. The people you see who are healthy and go to the gym are more conscientious and have higher IQs on average. They have better executive functioning and impulse control: they know how to organize their goals and stay on course. They're more able to firstly recognize what is healthy and unhealthy and also to navigate through the challenges of living in an unhealthy environment. Most people simply go by society's standards for determining how to act, so they will be unhealthy by default. In short, when you construct a society where health requires brains to maintain, many people will not be healthy.

@undeather God daym 🤩 I don't know. Something like @undeather wrote: essential nutrients, anti-oxidants, etc. Things that aid in bodily processes. Not anytime recently. I got the vaccines a few years ago.

Those are good for battling the symptoms. I'm mostly interested in speeding up recovery.

I'm actually surprisingly better today, but I don't think I'm back to normal. One of the symptoms I had (eye pain) is now almost gone. I had a pretty good nights sleep (even overslept a bit by accident), which might have helped. I still appreciate you guys' responses. B complex or something more specific?

I read somewhere that one proposed mechanism for the brain fog is some type of immune cell in the brain getting out of wack and causing excess inflammation. A shock of adrenaline could maybe have some effect on that considering adrenaline's effect on the immune system. I also thought what if getting infected with a different virus could maybe "reset" the aforementioned immune cells? (I'm not trying that just yet though 😅). I'll try some cold showers.