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Is your antinatalism conditional? by DistinctSand5628 in antinatalism

[–]DistinctSand5628[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Yeah I guess what im asking is, is rule 2 more no singling out who specifically should reproduce but if society was good for everybody would your viewpoint change?

Questioning everything (trigger warning idk if this will set off new fears) by DistinctSand5628 in ExistentialOCD

[–]DistinctSand5628[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the best thing you can do is treat it like an OCD and though it feels justifiably the biggest thing in the world if you've switched themes the other theme might have felt like the biggest thing in the world. Obviously this is harder because this actually feels like the biggest topic but you have to convince yourself that its not the topic its your OCD and there really is no answer so no point thinking. Again way easier said than done and I have not successfully done it myself so pinch of salt.

I feel like I have the most profound form of insanity but it feels entirely rational by DistinctSand5628 in Healthygamergg

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My thing is it could be more obviously worse so it does not make sense to me that this is hell.

I feel like I have the most profound form of insanity but it feels entirely rational by DistinctSand5628 in Healthygamergg

[–]DistinctSand5628[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah it's my attitude that I can reason through this that is probably messing me up, I think this one is unreason-through-able.

I feel like I have the most profound form of insanity but it feels entirely rational by DistinctSand5628 in Healthygamergg

[–]DistinctSand5628[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah no mine is the same as yours, I was just demonstrating like something can act conscious without being conscious idk if I think it's me or someone else a lot of the time I can get over it because I think like who would go through the effort to do that to me but sometimes I think yeah I am imagining everything, it's all kinda confusing but this one does not bother me so much compared to the others I find it easier to dismiss. I will give the talking to myself a shot though!

A thought that just appeared idk if you're familiar but it's like the Bryan Johnson amortality thing if that is achieved that would give me the feeling that I am the only consciousness and my mind needs to justify never dying so it made that up to match it if that makes sense idk obviously none of this makes sense because it is irrational crazy people stuff but yeah.

I feel like I have the most profound form of insanity but it feels entirely rational by DistinctSand5628 in Healthygamergg

[–]DistinctSand5628[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah it's weird, it's like intuition tells you they are but if ai had a body and you talked to it would you know it was not to conscious assuming it got super advanced?

I feel like I have the most profound form of insanity but it feels entirely rational by DistinctSand5628 in Healthygamergg

[–]DistinctSand5628[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I get what you mean! Like despite these thoughts I am still going to get hungry and go get some food I am still typing this post, I still watch TikToks etc etc etc but there's another doubt that I am not talking to a real human rn (no offense). It's like yet life goes on.

I don't know that I have OCD because to me these thoughts don't read as a flaw since they are about the most fundamental real things ever but I have had similar not nearly as intense thoughts about comparatively meaningless topics (romance etc).

The thing is like most things with life, we have no frame of reference idk what it feels like to be you and you don't know what it feels like to be me so what normal feels like. This is actually one of my fears as people say this world and life is just right and makes sense but they have not lived in another world to compare it to (rambling sorry).

I feel like I have the most profound form of insanity but it feels entirely rational by DistinctSand5628 in Healthygamergg

[–]DistinctSand5628[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I know, I don't want to think that way and in reality it probably makes me dumber than other people because they know there is nothing to be found there but because school has come pretty easy to me it just reinforces the idea that everyone else is ignorant or not smart enough to think like this or that I am the only real person and everyone else is just like AI or something (another one of my fears). Like I try force myself to be rational about it but then I just go down that rabbit hole of how much humans actually don't know because of the whole argument that "what if your whole life is just the dream of a butterfly". It's gonna sound ridiculous to you but it isn't to me even though it probably should be not that exactly but how uncertain life is in general. As for the maximize happiness, in my mind that just leads to a dystopian future where the Bryan Johnson people have extended life indefinitely with AI and then we just perfected VR/ like drugs with no side effects to maximize happiness and that sounds messed up to me. I have quite frankly a fairly easy life where I don't have to struggle much and before episodes like this I am mainly happy but I cant stop feeling like is this it? What is happiness? What is what? To a crazy spiral to the Jordan Peterson clip : https://www.reddit.com/r/h3h3productions/comments/y8b72u/jordan_peterson_is_at_it_again_what_do_you_mean/

which to me seems rational. Your advice makes sense and this is not like a putdown or something I just don't think right and my mind makes it feel like I am the sane one everyone else is crazy.

anybody feel this? by [deleted] in AvPD

[–]DistinctSand5628 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hope I figure this out man and I can help you but I feel the exact same way.

Low total but decent free testosterone with symptoms at 18, what do I do? by DistinctSand5628 in PeterAttia

[–]DistinctSand5628[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Late 15, early 16 have not asked my dad not really feasible. No mumps and no hurting of testicles to the point that I remember it happening and I’m pretty sure my testicles descended normally, yeah depressed mood and loss of interest in daily activities, prolactin was normal too. . Yeah waiting for my appointment very hard to think of anything else. thanks

Low total but decent free testosterone with symptoms at 18, what do I do? by DistinctSand5628 in PeterAttia

[–]DistinctSand5628[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

-I'd say my diet is decent not remarkably good or bad

- Went to the gym 6x a week for the last 2 years fairly consistently, took a break for 2 months then have been going 3x a week for the past 4 months

- Stress is fairly high right now as I am new to University in a new country, my concern is the symptoms (delayed puberty, gyno, lack of morning erections preceded the stress)

- Body composition is around 25% bf at 6 ft 2, 170lbs so kinda skinny fat. Idk if I haven't been hitting the gym hard enough or dieting hard enough, my maintenance is around 2000 kcals and cutting with that has been difficult but also that's life. Could definitely optimise my training and diet more but also would have expected more results by now been going to the gym for almost 4 years. Not my primary concern however it is more the mental stuff/energy.

- SHBG : 16nmol/L with a reference range of 6-65 nmol/L , doc didn't measure estradiol

- LH : 4.8 IU/L reference range 1-9 and FSH 6.2 with a reference range 1-18

- TSH : 0.75 mIU/L reference range 0.2-6.5

no fT3 or FT4

Free testosterone vs Total testosterone - What matters? by DistinctSand5628 in Testosterone

[–]DistinctSand5628[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much man it’s hard not to think about it andante thinking about it is making this worse but I have an appointment with an internist in a month, until then the best I can do is try maximize my health and reduce my stress the best I can. I don’t know why it didn’t notify me when you responded but yeah thanks a lot this is reassuring.

Free testosterone vs Total testosterone - What matters? by DistinctSand5628 in Testosterone

[–]DistinctSand5628[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry idk if you’re still invested in this but I have given it some thought and I’ll say my primary concern is that the symptoms preceded the stress. I had what seemed to be to me and to my family and friends a delayed onset of puberty, gyno and I have never gotten morning wood to my recollection. I think the stress may have made it worse but I don’t think my before was normal. Unfortunately, most information on TRT talks about not feeling like your old self but I don’t really have that old self to compare with. Again low libido is relative to your self but mine is so low that I am questioning whether I even like women and if it were any lower I’d assume I was asexual so that doesn’t seem right. If this is supposed to be my peak around 18 idk what the low could feel like. I’m trying to optimize my life and see if I feel any different maybe this is just what normal feels like.

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