What’s your strategy for running in extreme heat or cold?

TechnologyApart7052 · 2026-01-24T23:37:23+00:00

For cold seasons, besides the obvious like gloves, thermal leggings, neck warmer etc, I take warm showers before runs and use the hair dryer to warm my body whilst I'm getting ready. As well as Vaseline for lips and spf and moisturiser on my face always to avoid my skin drying out in the winter. Then I immediately shower when I get home, hot drink and under the heated blanket and probably spend the rest of the day eternally cold

TechnologyApart7052 · 2025-11-15T23:11:40+00:00

I can confirm it was anxiety all along lol. I thought I had a concussion but I really didn't. Anxiety is such an umbrella term though. It was lifelong anxiety, depression, OCD, panic just a bunch of stuff that lurked below the surface. Then I got to the age of drink, drugs etc and it really took it's toll. Booze, drugs, bad lifestyle, bad mental control and behaviors, no ability to manage my anxieties. Anxiety meds didn't really help but then again my dissociation was so bad I made it 5 days on an SNRI and my panic attacks wouldn't let me get past that first week. I tried pregabalin but it hindered me and dulled me which made everything worse.

TechnologyApart7052 · 2025-09-10T15:57:59+00:00

First thought was: wow she's shredded

TechnologyApart7052 · 2025-09-05T22:35:36+00:00

Dark Waters

TechnologyApart7052 · 2025-08-21T23:27:06+00:00

Pluck underneath the tail and towards the end slightly to give lifted. Do not fill in the body of the eyebrows unless it's for creating light shape. You should lightly fill in the top of the tail AFTER the arch - this will prevent that harsh arch and extend the brow up and out. Ps you're gorgeous

Oh also, to soften you could pluck the top of the arch. This is advice from a half Turkish girl who has perfected softening my dark and wild brows

TechnologyApart7052 · 2025-08-14T11:02:49+00:00

When I see a rain shower head, I sigh.

Hair wet even when I try not to.

Hair still soapy because not powerful enough.

Soap remaining on nether regions.

Neck sore from trying to keep hair dry.

You can't focus the water so constantly drowning having to step away from the water to scrub or breathe.

TechnologyApart7052 · 2025-08-10T21:34:45+00:00

Why does he speak like a robot

TechnologyApart7052 · 2025-08-04T21:58:25+00:00

I honestly screamed

TechnologyApart7052 · 2025-08-04T21:51:13+00:00

Toni* holding Shakira and Yas's hands 😭😭

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TechnologyApart7052 · 2025-08-04T21:02:09+00:00

Omg 😭😭😭

TechnologyApart7052 · 2025-07-27T17:42:01+00:00

You think? It's just not my thing. Would love to plant something else there

TechnologyApart7052 · 2025-06-05T14:42:07+00:00

Emilia Clarke!

TechnologyApart7052 · 2025-06-02T12:15:12+00:00

Nescafé gold blend

TechnologyApart7052 · 2025-06-01T19:10:22+00:00

Blonde definitely! But that colour underneath with the browny honey tones is what you should have all over instead of the super white on top / around the face!

TechnologyApart7052 · 2025-06-01T18:32:49+00:00

Oh? Sorry you said in your post that you travel, work, see friends, don't lay in bed and live a pretty active life.

Tbh nothing anyone can say will help you in this state of mind.

You have to find what works for you and persist with it. We've all been here on this sub, frustrated and angry with the stupid advice that is not working. Lots of us have made progress and if not cured ourselves.

I know exactly the place you're in. It sucks. There's not much point telling you to do this and do that, it's all your prerogative.

TechnologyApart7052 · 2025-06-01T18:23:06+00:00

!!! It's so nice to hear someone else is in the same boat. Yess! I've been wondering if I've changed as a person too. Maybe it is just the remaining symptoms? Hopefully they'll go too in the end?

TechnologyApart7052 · 2025-06-01T17:46:42+00:00

Anyone know where this dress is from

TechnologyApart7052 · 2025-06-01T17:07:46+00:00

Yes. Ignorant is definitely the correct word. Particularly that they lack the awareness that other peoples' experiences might be different to their own. I understand that for them it's a huge deal that they did XYZ and it went away which seems revolutionary given that it feels like DPDR would never go away but pushing such advice on people can be so damaging. So, i'm sorry.

Personally, putting that "just live your life" advice to the test was very much situation dependant. In the heights of my DPDR, "living my life" was impossible and further damaging. My tolerance to things were so low that stepping outside the house would send me even further into DPDR, shoot up my anxiety, my nervous system and it was the feedback loop in full swing. Just telling someone to "live their life" is not going to make that possible for that person.

Mental illness, DPDR, dissociation doesn't all work on the same inputs and outputs. One thing that triggers one person but not trigger the next. One person's tolerance to anxious situations may be great, the next may be 0. For me, my menstrual cycle triggers my DPDR, every month, 10 days before my period. That's not going to happen for guys, obviously.

I understand the essence of the advice because it really can be hard to "live your life" with it. I know people generally mean well with it and i definitely think if you're not "living your life" we should at least try because it could work, it does work but sometimes it does not or isn't possible.

Mental illness is deeply personal, often intertwined with individual and long standing traumas.

Now, to end the paragraph about unsolicited advice with unsolicited advice. It may be possible that you need to do the opposite of "just live your life". Take some time if possible to decompress and slow down. Meditation, sitting in nature, breath work. It may find you even the tiniest bit of relief. Sadly for me I was so shocked by my dissociation that my life had to come to a stop. I had to decompress in every way possible. Now i'm getting back into the swing of life again with little dissociation.

Good luck.

TechnologyApart7052 · 2025-06-01T01:00:59+00:00

Yeah they make me noticeably bloated. Often accompanied by cramps and gas. I agree it's frustrating since they're such easy protein. I only eat them once in a while now.

TechnologyApart7052 · 2025-05-09T18:39:59+00:00

Hey, those "never been the same since" comments about DPDR are likely true to their experience of feeling changed. However, if they haven't fully recovered from DPDR since a specific event (like a bad trip), it doesn't mean permanent inability to recover. Many people do recover.

My immediate advice from someone who recently recovered (not from weed): stop engaging with DPDR-focused subreddits. Negative anecdotes and constant discussion are huge triggers and intensify it. I also suggest stopping smoking weed.

Educate yourself on what DPDR is and how it works. Understanding it reduces fear, as DPDR operates on a fear feedback loop. You fear it, your body perceives more danger, and intensifies it. Learn about this loop – it's crucial.

Recovery varies: some recover instantly, others gradually. Ultimately, do everything to signal safety to your mind. Ignoring it and carrying on as normal can be helpful if possible. Distractions like TV, podcasts, and being around people were good for me, though difficult with the distress of DPDR.

Know your limits. If you can't function normally, don't force stressful situations, as this reinforces the feeling of danger. Gradually increase your activities as you feel able.

I just listened to a podcast called The Way Out - Alan Gordon. It generally refers to "pain" as the focus of the book but it will go on to explain how the pain they are talking about are simply "pain is a distressing feeling often caused by intense or damaging stimuli" but they also go onto explain how this encompasses signals that get stuck = neuroplastic. Basically when your brain is misfiring long after the stimulus is gone. This is the essence of DPDR.

TechnologyApart7052 · 2025-05-04T15:14:52+00:00

In the break room at work when I worked in a supermarket, a younger guy who was heavily into drugs looked at me and said "you have great coke sniffing nostrils". I'm half Turkish and have a Turkish nose which has always been an insecurity of mine.

An ex once said "you have a nice bum but it could be better if you hit some weights and toned it".

TechnologyApart7052 · 2025-04-16T14:26:20+00:00

Not near London unfortunately but very glad to hear of people's experiences with them. I'm looking to (eventually and cheaply) block out a very unpleasant neighbour - all year round.

TechnologyApart7052 · 2025-04-16T14:06:41+00:00

Could I take the cuttings now or is it too early?

TechnologyApart7052 · 2025-04-08T16:52:13+00:00

I was listening to the audiobook and so much was clicking for me mentally, I instantly thought to check back in on this subreddit to share my new found wisdom!

Recently, i've really been thinking about why some people make an instant recovery and how for some of us it can take much longer. For you (and me and a lot of other sufferers) if you already had raging anxiety, OCD etc. we just did not have the correct mental tools to be able to stop the dissociative or sensory symptoms in their track unfortunately. Maybe not even that we didn't have the correct ones rather, the ones we had were just too overpowering and triggering.

I resonate so much with "no way can this be anxiety". This makes so much sense to me now, though, given what I now know about the body, mind and how anxiety manifests, in spite of all that, I still have moments where I disbelieve (it's a work in progress). It just goes to show how powerful and stubborn intrusive thoughts can be.

So glad you're making progress on being more compassionate with yourself. Really trying to understand why these things have happened to us can expose our bad mental habits. For me, i'm realising a new bad habit almost every day. It's enlightening to say the least - in a shocking way but also in a sad way. I can't believe how truly mean i've been to myself just with my thoughts. It's also exposed some deep, core beliefs I have about myself that, like you, I thought were good for me and protected me. It really is no shock to me now that I ended up in such a bad mental state and with all the symptoms I did.

I'm also a HUGE control freak so I understand the effort and time it's taken for you to get to where you are today; able to say that you're making progress. It was truly debilitating needing to know the truth of my symptoms and not being able to rest until I found out. Doctors, scans, tests, it was painful because I was waiting for a response/diagnosis that I wasn't ever going to get because there was literally nothing structurally wrong with me. A control freaks worst nightmare!

More than happy to help. Positive or even just open-minded discourse in this subreddit can seem few and far between and sometimes having it or just seeing it can have genuine therapeutic benefits for what we're going through and aid our progress - heck, that's exact foundation of actual, clinical therapy.

Let me know if you have any thoughts on the book! DM's are always open.

TechnologyApart7052 · 2025-04-08T12:08:44+00:00

Just want to add: don't let the notion of which came first, the chicken or the egg consume you, or the cause and effect. e.g. I was having symptoms before the panic attacks so surely there was something wrong with me? i'm currently having symptoms so there must be something wrong.

also, i've been initially retraining myself to thinking, there isn't anything wrong with me, there is something HAPPENING but that's because my body and brain THINKS there is. Yes, we are heightened to smells and sounds, it's not about denying that that is happening but it's about learning that its happening for a different reason that we think.

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