"PAIN," SENSORY OVERLOAD and LEGAL & ILLEGAL SUBSTANCE ISSUES --- and HEALTH NUTS who are Not Always Living Longer

Conjecture

• I've always been able to manage my substance issues within a perimeter of LEGALITY.
  • BUT there are certainly people who are not struggling with DIET COKE like I am.
  • Further, I always felt like if I can't handle sugar -- I don't think the next step is some more recognized mind-altering substance.

 

•  I have had people in my family who have died from legal substance issues.
  • Alcohol and
  • Smoking

 

• Further, I have had people I have loved very much in my extended family with ILLEGAL SUBSTANCE ISSUES.

 

• To me these are "MEDICAL ISSUES" and if they could be easily solved with a LECTURE we wouldn't have these issues.

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RSD = Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria

A Couple of Things:

• I like this image because it gets beyond RSD as associated with ADHD -- and gets to the more FUNDAMENTAL CATEGORY of NEURO-DIVERGENCE
  • which appears to be often related to greater Neuro-Developmental Inflammation.
• I think Neuro-Divergent people are quite desperate at this point to get Executive Functioning Issues OUT ON THE TABLE ---
  • as well as have more opportunities to exercise some of their BIG STRENGTHS which come from having HYPER-CONNECTED BRAINS.

Why that HEALTH NUT may not Live Longer?

• We're really talking about the LONG TERM EFFECTS of DEVELOPMENTAL INFLAMMATION.
  
• In Modern Times, that HEALTH NUT may be the equivalent of the RELIGIOUS ZEALOT.
• Further, a lot of this activity whether on the Health front, or the Religious front or OTHER FRONT --
  • may be an effort to keep Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria at bay and
  • try to MANAGE a SYSTEM in which BALANCE is ELUSIVE, and
  • SENSORY OVERWHELM is fairly constant.

 

• AWARENESS is important.

 

• We wouldn't expect someone with DOWN SYNDROME to "CURE" DOWN SYNDROME with LIFESTYLE CHANGES even though LIFESTYLE CHANGES could be beneficial.

 

• The NEEDS of people with greater NEURO-DEVELOPMENTAL INFLAMMATION are just BEGINNING to be appreciated.