<div dir="auto">Well! For two days after my worst carpal tunnel ever, I’ve had two good days after asking a friend to pray for me. I’m not going jump on the computer right away (there’s probably a message there), but things are looking up after 30 years of numbness.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I was confused after finding out anxiety was rapid breathing. I have slow breathing, perhaps bradypnea. I don’t know why the doctors prescribed anti-anxiety.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div><a href="https://youtu.be/eitDnP0_83k">https://youtu.be/eitDnP0_83k</a></div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 6, 2022 at 11:52 PM John Carlson <<a href="mailto:yottzumm@gmail.com">yottzumm@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">I know the below *might* be triggering, but it may actually help someone. Proceed with care. Slightly religious topics covered. If you will be offended by religious references, please look elsewhere. Feel free to forward.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This is some of the best, old boring advice I can give to people who sit for long periods at the keyboard.<br><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Sorry for the outburst last week. I started directly addressing my symptoms instead of just letting the medications alone treat my problems (the medicine my nurse is prescribing is beyond our budget). I found out they pretty much know where the ego is in the brain, beyond some psychoanalytic concept, and from psychoanalysis (dictionary)—that the ego is responsible for reality testing. So i think I am prepared to test any “unreality” that enters my consciousness; I have an excellent way to test confused thoughts from a few Bible verses in 1 & 2 John (not the Gospel), they are probably successful > 90% of the time. Sometimes I can’t even think the question without messing up. Try, try, again.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I know you may know people in similar situations. My first recommendation is to practice some form of meditation or exercise (breathing) to gain focus and reduce anxiety. Start with a walk at lunch, perhaps—grab another person. I did my best work when i took a daily walk at lunch. Some people think juggling is the best thing since sliced bread. Maybe chose a gentle martial art like Tai Chi, as long as you breathe. The reason for my first recommendation is this: programming/typing/email/texting etc slows or stops your breathing, which causes stress and anxiety (it’s not how easy/boring or difficult your work is, you need oxygen to think properly). Anxiety starts up fear and with disabled reality testing, the fear will consume you. Find some text from a trusted source to test your fearful thoughts against, are these real things to be feared? Also, i think that extra fat in the belly can prevent your diaphragm from fully extending, reducing breathing.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So primarily, I recommend breathing, which can stop disorders in their tracks. If you do get somewhat confused and you find your reality testing a bit awry, seek a way to do reality testing with external assistance, maybe seek help with a professional. Some may complain that they are experiencing email apnea or screen apnea. You’re on the right track. You've got to make sure you are breathing—it’s not the email or the screen. Don’t approach the pulmonologist with “waking apnea”—they’ll wonder what the heck you are talking about.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I’m at the next step, stopping confusing thoughts altogether, repairing the ego, resuscitating the ego, etc. If anyone is past this, please share your techniques or a link. My classmate is taking me through a healing book. I’m on board with professional appointments to change medications.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I only figured out that breathing was primary 10+ years in. Hopefully i can save someone that unknowing. There should be a required course in university for first years, or in primary education, it’s probably more important than DARE programs, and aids in preventing people from being “hooked” into the psychiatric system due to sedentary lifestyles as well as the things DARE addresses.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Get out of the Metaverse and experience the Universe!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And I also know some will not pay attention!</div></div></div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">John</div></div></div>
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