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Honestly I have been consumed by this kind of anxiety the last two years as a remote worker. Constant paranoia about what the team is doing and saying and what
by circusmaximus 6y ago
Honestly I have been consumed by this kind of anxiety the last two years as a remote worker. Constant paranoia about what the team is doing and saying and what people are really motivated by.
The politics of my remote teams Have driven me to depression and constant fear.
What has genuinely helped me is to change my diet. I switched to a diet of nothing but meat and vegetables and began supplementing vitamin D.
I have noticed that my mood and emotional responses are significantly better when I fix my health. Like it or not, my crappy diet was causing me all kinds of problems and making my anxiety worse.
Another thing: I have a team member who literally sees everything positively. Whenever something happens, he automatically defaults to “this is a good thing because...” and tells a story to himself about why this is a positive thing.
I started trying to think that way.
When you have anxiety every miscommunication or misunderstanding gets rounded to a negative reaction. When your diet and health are bad, you have a much higher chance of being in an exhausted or poor mood and taking things the wrong way.
And yes - I understand some people suffer from more mental conditions. But even if you do have a mental condition of some sort, fixing your nutrition helps regardless.
- rubicon33 6y ago>> What has genuinely helped me is to change my diet. I switched to a diet of nothing but meat and vegetables and began supplementing vitamin D. >> I have noticed that my mood and emotional responses are significantly better when I fix my health. Like it or not, my crappy diet was causing me all kinds of problems and making my anxiety worse. Been hearing a lot of this lately. I hope you don't mind me asking but, were you overweight prior to starting the diet? I ask because I changed my diet for 1 week by cutting out all carbohydrates, only eating home cooked meat and vegetables. I didn't feel better. In fact, I felt worse. I workout a lot though, and I'm in "good" shape. So my thinking was, maybe the lack of calories made me feel crappy.
- bloodorange 6y agoWhat you are describing sounds like a "keto diet". It is expected that people don't feel so good until the body adjusts to the low-carb diet. Often people speak of "keto flu" in the initial days.
- rubicon33 6y agoI wonder if it's worth staying on for me? I've listened a lot to how insulin is genuinely bad for everyone. But, I don't suffer at all from weight issues. I have been lucky, and never have. I can eat all the carbs and sugar I want, and I don't feel bad, or get negative results. This is making me wonder if the whole "insulin is bad" theory is true for everyone. I find I feel better, and have more energy, if I've eaten a lot. And of course this would be a problem, if I gained weight, had high blood pressure, etc. The only thing I suffer from, that I'd like to improve, is a general apathy and lack of real spark. I lack a genuine DRIVE to really kick my ass into gear. Not sure if that's because of diet, or what...
- bloodorange 6y agoI am no dietician or doctor. However, I can say that you didn't try the diet long enough to conclude if it had any beneficial effect for you. Also, given that you were not aware about the possibility of keto-flu, I suppose you also didn't gather enough information about it before going on such a diet. I strongly recommend that you learn more about the diet before you try it again (if you do choose to do so). It is easy to fall into a pattern where you fail to get all your micronutrients on such a diet. When I tried such a diet, it had a very positive effect on me and I will eventually go back to it.