#Hormones and stress

[realizashuns]

I slept from 4 am to 4 pm yesterday.

#idk why but it really hit me this month that I truly can make sense of my habits because of my #pcos #like I’ve always been called lazy but it’s legitimately because I have a medical condition that fucks with my #hormones and stress #also I’m like 4 days sober #i passed the hump of lack of appetite and headaches /brain zaps

[artisticdivasworld]

The Science Behind Mental Health and Mental Health Treatments

Mental health is a complex subject that involves our emotions, behaviors, and thought processes. Scientists have made great progress in understanding how the brain works and develops insights into mental health issues and treatments. Here is an overview of some of the key scientific findings: The Brain’s Role The brain is the control center for our thoughts, emotions and behaviors. Mental…

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#Biological factors in mental health #Brain chemistry and mood #Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) #Coping mechanisms for stress #Evidence-based therapies #Genetics and mental health #Hormones and stress #Mental health awareness #Mental health research #mental health treatment #Mindfulness meditation benefits #Neurotransmitters and emotions #Psychological factors in therapy #Reducing mental health stigma #Science of mental health #Social connections and well-being #Social support and mental health #Socioeconomic status and mental health #Trauma-informed care

[theambitiouswoman]

Herbs to help you regulate cortisol and stress 🌿🍵🧚

🍃 Chamomile when you have an anxious stomach

🍃 Valerian when your thoughts don’t let you sleep

🍃 Skullcap when you feel muscle tension from stress

🍃 Holy basil when you’ve been high stress for days

🍃 Rhodiola when you feel burnt out from stress

🍃 Gotu kola when stress is causing you brain fog

🍃 Passion flower when you feel irritable and snappy

#herbs #plants and herbs #natural medicine #meditation #womens health #healthy lifestyle #health tips #health and wellness #healthylifestyle #cortisol #manage stress #hormones #hormonal balance #hormonal imbalance #healingjourney #healing #law of the universe #medicinal herbs #chinese herbs #natural herbs #herbsforhealth

[xhanisai]

Due to all the stress from Ladybugging and school and all that, Marinette's hair texture changes and becomes wavy. So her friends are like "omg your hair is so groovy nice styling" and she's like !?!?!?!?!?!!?

#miraculous ladybug #miraculous ladybug and chat noir #yeah this happened to me and now I'm making it happen to marinette #my stress and hormone levels are still whack but back when I was a teen it was WEIRD #my hair went from super sleek and straight #to lightly curly!?! #people be thinking i had a perm! #currently my hair is slightly wavy but it hasn't reverted back to the sleek straightness it used to be

[sciderman]

I swear I have read your big post regarding Peter Parker's neurodivergence and why it is best to avoid labelling him, but he definitely has a weird brain

Can't find it and feel kinda sad about it cuz I deeply related to it

i know exactly which post you're talking about and i can't find it either! i've raked through my archive, and it's just - nowhere to be seen. i think tumblr eated it (it happens.)

really, tumblr's search functionality is so so useless, i don't know what to tell you. there are plenty of keywords i can search to find it that post, but the search functionality actually just does not work!

undiagnosed audhd-addled peter parker, my darling, my light, my life, my everything.

i think peter parker's such an interesting creature to write, because a lot of people will point to a certain behaviour about him and say "this is an autistic thing, right?" but a lot of those behaviours are actually, in my head, tied to certain traumas in peter's life too.

people say "oh, the food thing, peter's a picky eater because he's autistic" and yes, absolutely. but also it's tied to his trauma with his parents.

peter gets overstimulated, and yes, it's an autism thing, but also he was bitten by a radioactive spider and his senses are dialled to 11.

it's a similar case i've found for myself, too – where a lot of friends i have kind of diagnose me because i have autistic traits, but actually - i'm hesitant to claim the label or pursue diagnosis because, actually, i know where these certain behaviours come from, and they come from certain traumas. there are events i can pinpoint in my life and say "yep. that's where this behaviour comes from."

so - i think there's a lot of overlap between trauma and autistic traits. the brain is very complex! i think the reason for that overlap is maybe as simple as the fact that people with autism and people with trauma are both doing the same thing - developing behaviours to protect themselves or soothe themselves. so - i think it's nice to be able to see a character like peter parker, who may or may not be autistic, but recognise behaviours in him and see yourself in him.

people who go undiagnosed for whatever reason - people who are really good at masking - so good, in fact, that they have no idea they might be on the spectrum - everyone and anyone at all can look at peter parker and recognise themselves. because i think we discredit the thought that every single brain does the same thing! develops certain behaviours in order to survive. every brain has that same software - we've just all been faced with different hardships that we need to overcome, and that's were all the differences come in.

autism is a spectrum, i guess - everyone falls into it to some degree. and i think events in your life probably push you along on it. but i don't know, i didn't study brain science. probably what i'm saying is very stupid and uninformed. of course there's brain chemistry involved. but i know people in my life living with autism and certain events in their life have exacerbated certain behaviours or made coping with it a lot more difficult. so maybe trauma is a catalyst.

#a lot of my traits have been exacerbated lately and i remember it was much easier for me before #and some of my friends have said “oh it's because you've been masking too long and now you're facing autistic burnout.” #and that made sense to me i think. #but then i found out about the stress thing. me overproducing stress hormone. and that's a very physical thing. #and that explains why i've been overstimulated more than usual lately. and why everything feels like too much. #and i wonder how many of these traits of mine are going to subside once i have lamar removed #and it makes me wonder a lot of things. and it's so weird how much your brain is tied to your biology. #i wonder how much i'll change. i wonder how i'll feel. i wonder if i'll still feel like me. i wonder how much me is me right now. #and how much of me is being altered by weird freaky hormones. who am i?? who will i be?? #i'm almost looking at this as like. a superhero origin story of some sort. like this is my spider-bite moment. maybe. #will i be different? will i cope with things differently?? now that my body isn't fighting something anymore?? #maybe i'll be normal. i don't know. i don't know. #i don't know what it'll mean for me. #but all of these things mean i relate to peter parker in a certain kind of way #i don't think you have to be diagnosed with autism to recognise and empathise with those traits i think #i think everyone can see themselves in peter. and i think that's the benefit of having characters that aren't diagnosed. #because there's so much overlap in the human experience. and certain feelings aren't exclusive to just one group of people. #peter has such a rich identity actually. it's an autistic thing. it's a queer thing. it's a jewish thing. it's a trauma thing. #there are so many overlapping parts of peter's identity that inform who he is and how he behaves and it's never just one thing. #it's a product of all of his things. #just like me! just like everyone. #so me? i guess i can be a million things. you can explain what i am in a million different ways. #a hundred different psychologists can all come up with different ways to explain why i be the way i be. #i don't think it's something that can be simplified. #sorry wow. i'm really going off here in the tags. #i hope people don't think i'm stupid. i don't know brain science. i'm just philosophising as usual. #sci speaks

[canonicallyanxious]

i'm stupid so i absolutely did not put together Conrad Schintz as "conscience" until i saw someone in the tag point this out but now that it's in my dumb brain i can't stop thinking about it. Alex's choice to portray Conrad as this softspoken never speaks up but still has to do Something boy who is kind and thoughtful to a fault. pitch perfect character choices!!! but also this tiny quiet boy somehow being pegged by the heads of the city as the BIGGEST DISTRACTION to the big guy's goals and ambitions!! and then his choice of the important article to pay attention to being the culmination of Elias' months and months of research - specifically for the goal of, as Conrad put it, getting it before the "big wigs" could get to it. WHAT is Elias Hodge DOING for Gobstopper Industries??????

#sarah.txt #dimension 20 #mentopolis #d20 spoilers #d20 meta #story meta #kind of????? this isn't really meta just me going WHAT is going on and being too dumb to figure it out skdnfskdfnsd #god these fucking world building choices though. #cortisol being the main hormone available legally and one of its functions is to regulate stress response. #the city is on strict pleasure/love lockdown until elias gets a raise. #his conscience is a tiny little boy who no one ever listens to but still somehow managed to shake up the whole city w one small choice. #logic is the mayor!!! ambition is the DA!!!!! #all of these small things that tell us SO MUCH about who elias hodge is as a person without ever even meeting the big guy!!!!!! #Brennan how much fucking WORK did you put into this world building i'm SCREAMING!!!!!

[sidetongue]

in love with my little crew

#henry got very very mad at sprig the other day #after a lot of trigger stacking #i had been bed bound for 4 days post tonsillectomy #so none of the dogs had had any interaction or exercise #so they were all stressed and restless #i was in bed and heard hollering and screaming #i ran downstairs and by the time i got there the fight was over and no one was injured #i looked back on the camera and hen had been lying down chewing something #moby was being irritating and trying to get it out of his mouth #hen ignored him #then budge came over and tried to retrieve it as well #hen continued munching and didn't even bother correcting them #but then sprig walked over to see what was going on #and stuck his head in hens mouth #hen gave a slight correction #and then sprig in awkward panic made a move to like mount hen?? #and anyway hen just turned around and NAILED him #which was scary because hes never done anything like that before #I'm thinking it's because sprig is entire and also quite a bit larger #and apparently at like 10-12mo their hormones go insane even if they're not acting like jerks?? and it makes neutered males upset? #anyway i'm sure sprig has learnt not to hump hen #but my immediate instinct is to DESEX SPRIG NOW #because all of my dogs have been desexed under a year old #i dont know how to own entire dogs! #but i really really wanna keep spriggy entire until at least 2yrs #anyway Sprig literally just screamed and peed himself which was most of the noise #if needed i'll start separating the old man and the baby regularly so they can have time out from each other #still very good boys #henry #sprig

[sprout-fics]

Google search: How to make fanfiction fun again

#I’m probably just hormonal or something stupid #but I’ve been getting really depressed about this blog recently and I’ve been thinking more and more about deleting and starting over #or leaving it as an archive and abandoning it #I get so stressed about posting and nervous about interactions and it’s ruining the experience for me #and I know it’s my fault because I’m just fucked up and in need of so much more therapy than I currently have #but at this point I’m forcing myself to have fun in here #it’s not coming naturally #and I have a really really hard time letting go of things that once brought me joy #so I’m kind of hanging on hoping things will get better but they aren’t #I’m not making any decisions yet #but I am going to start backing up my stuff and crossposting to ao3 so it’s all there too #and I’m sure someone is going to come and tell me this is the wrong reaction #so I’m sorry. I’m sorry for everything

[gojonanami]

i feel like satoru's skin is soooo goood

oh it absolutely is — and apparently with no products as we learned in that little short audio after one of the episodes 😭😭

but sometimes you would run over his face with his fingers just to see how smooth and soft his skin was. and you’d pout a little at his clear skin before pinching it.

“ow!! sweetheart, why did you—“

“it’s not fair you have such pretty skin and for what?”

“it’s not my fault I’m perfect—ow! ow!!”

#sab [asks] #sab [anons] #lmao #my skin sucks rn because of stress and hormones so I am jealous of Toru #😤😤😤

[hekateinhell]

#WIPWednesday, MerMay edition! 🐠

The sequel to my mermaid fic is all I've been working on lately anyway, so here's a bit from the beginning (as usual, I couldn't help but share a smut bit 🫣):

He never could resist embracing it as tightly as he could, feeling himself tremble, overcome with an emotion that was simultaneously relief and yearning with an undercurrent of trepidation. The creature accepting his kisses over its forehead, cheeks, and lips—sloppy and urgent as Lestat was in his affections, like the mastiff's puppies back home. Its pale skin always slightly damp and deliciously cold until enough time passed in his arms that its body began to absorb his heat.

“I love you,” Lestat had professed the second to last time he’d seen his siren. Their fingers intertwining over its head, its dark, wet curls spread out on the white sand like an otherworldly halo, palm to much smaller, smoother palm. His vision blurring from the force of his impending orgasm and his heart pounding in his ears loud enough to rival the sound of the waves crashing at his feet, shocking frigid in the early morning.

All he could see as he buried his face in the spot where the creature's pulse throbbed cold was the glint of the golden necklace he’d gifted his strange love a couple weeks prior. His hips shuttering once, twice—the reminder of what the glittering chain represented all he needed to push him over the edge, and he groaned out the words as he spilled into the tight little hole: “I love you, I love you, I love you, always going to love you…” And even if the creature had not—could not—say them back, Lestat would swear on the god he'd never truly believed in that he felt the sentiment returned in every eager kiss, every feather-light touch, every enraptured stare. Surely, even the most powerful imagination couldn't conjure something like this, now could it?

@vamptember

#if you see typos no no you don't 🥹 #i'm so stressed about this one actually lmao it's gonna be different than other things i've written before (i think) #i love pushing myself but i'm hormonal rn and intimidated 🤧 #armand/lestat #vc fic #mermay vc

[eatclean-bewhole]

Avoiding caffeine on an empty stomach is also ideal for hormone balance, for those with a compromised gut, and for those with anxiety.

#caffeine #caffeine addiction #cortisol #anxiety #anxiety relief #stress #stress less #stress reduction #stress reliever #stress management #coffee #hormone balance #hormone imbalance #guthealth #gut #gut health #brain health #hormone health

[kedreeva]

I've been out all day at a reptile expo that was.... admittedly not great, and I get home to find my vet has emailed me without prompting. Worried because ??? why would my VET email me unprompted, the last time they did that was years ago and it was because birds someone had purchased from me caught tuberculosis of all things, and they were concerned it came from my birds (it did not!).

And it was not My vet, it was the other vet at my vet's practice, asking me if I knew of anyone that rents peafowl for weddings. Like to just have out at a wedding.

My response was a 6-paragraph dissertation to pose the question "are you out of your goddamn mind?" as politely as I could.

#peafowl #experienced all 5 stages of grief between seeing the email #and loading it #only to repeat all 5 stages immediately afterward #they're a wild game bird #even if someone was willing to risk the stress and potential for injury or illness #where are you going to find someone DURING BREEDING SEASON #willing to rent you either a male hopped up on breeding hormones #who's pissed or terrified about being moved #or a hen that's laying and could stress herself into being eggbound #or at best stress herself into stopping laying for them #and that's counting on her not raising babies currently #where are you gonna find someone INSURED to have their birds out #are YOU going to pay the bill if someone tries to sue them #for a guest taking a spur to the face #if they bother a bird? #cause I sure as hell am not taking that risk even with nicest birds #like not even artemis who is too stupid to panic or attack anyone #wouldn't tolerate a /wedding/ #anyway I am too tired for this

[craycraybluejay]

at this point anti-smoking/vaping shit is stupid. everyone knows it kills you. most people who do it just prefer doing it than not. car crashes kill millions of people but i don't see you giving up your car and just walking everywhere or trying to find working public transport every single place you go. people take risks and make decisions. get over it.

#this may be a radical opinion but just like everyone should have a right to get healthier if they want to the opposite is also true #and a lot of people use smokes to self medicate #you don't know shit about anyone and it's usually not your business #'oh but it makes me feel bad that people get hurt :(' #then advocate for universal living conditions that make people less stressed or mentally ill etc and less likely to smoke #otherwise fuck all the way off #you do not get to play god over other peoples lives just because you personally feel they make the wrong decisions #that's not your call #very big fuck you to anyone who steals peoples drugs prescribed or otherwise #w many drugs withdrawals can kill you #and actuallt self medication is valid #if you think its wrong to steal someones ssris against their will bc of the long term health implications or some other reason #you should also understand its wrong to steal other drugs #kind of like stealing food because you think a person is 'unhealthily overweight' #or stealing hormones because you think its bad for them whether that be birth control or hrt #IT IS NOT YOUR CALL #it is not your business

[kairenn-n]

so stupid that the body can have physical reactions to stress. like buddy dont you see youre adding to it ??? seriously how is this in any way shape or form an evolutive advantage

#when they drop earth 2.0 they should make the stress hormones good for you #like maybe youre fighting for your life in exams week but your liver is getting repaired or whatever the fuck idk

[timemachineyeah]

this book is gonna be so fucking good if I ever get around to writing it

#I did recently discover I may have been operating for YEARS maybe my WHOLE LIFE with near death low levels of cortisol lmao #so until I can get to an endo and hopefully get on some hormones I'm gonna be extra nice to myself re: productivity and stress #because it turns out my 'overexertion goes REALLY hard on me :(' may have been repeatedly nearly dying lolololol #I mean it's probably not that bad it's probably just a little funky #but my morning cortisol was 0.5 which I guess is like STUPID low #anyway I can't wait to write my whole book I'm gonna go write more of it now maybe

[baejax-the-great]

The problem with reddit is that you can go on the migraine board with your PhD in biology having read the literature regarding food triggers and tell people that the chocolate thing is a myth, and get downvoted by twenty people who claim "well I get a migraine every time I eat a piece of 90% dark chocolate (though not 75% or 95%, JUST 90%!!!) on the full moon, so scientists don't know everything because triggers are all so personal!!!!" and then get called an asshole because apparently believing that chocolate triggers migraines is like key to their identity or something

#I really need to quit reddit #triggers aren't very personal #weather bright lights perfume stress sleep disturbances hunger #these are the most common triggers #and most people who have chronic migraines have all of those triggers #oh and hormones #oh and alcohol duhhhh #and caffeine withdrawal #all very reliable predictors of migraine in people prone to migraine #and like... maybe not everyone has all those triggers but #in people who claim they are sensitive to those triggers scientists can test them and go yup #not so with chocolate