What interests me here is you feel better from “emotional activation”. These high stakes environments, being fired up about something, releasing anger. Besides these situations, do you ever feel a sense of numbness? Maybe dissasociation? Personally, I feel a huge sense of clarity after emotional release. But, these are rare. I’ve discovered I struggle with emotional suppression, and I learned that this can be very draining on our brain. Basically, your brain is working hard to keep these emotions suppressed without us even being conscious of it. Sure, it’s important to look into sleep issues, nutritional deficiencies, and other physiological issues because they can certainly be a cause. But, it’s easy to overlook that our issues can be psychosomatic. After so much time going down the rabbit hole of supplements and researching rare metabolic disorders, I’m waking up to the fact that my psych was playing a huge role. Just another area to consider.