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I used to regularly feel bad but didn’t recognize the feeling as thirst. Turns out humans are supposed to drink water.

• pancrufty 4y ago
  "Recognizing feelings" is something we can be really bad at. Occasionally I would feel "really hungry" in the morning. Only in my thirties I realized that that "hungry feeling" was just stomach pain and a direct consequence of eating late at night. Similarly, I couldn't understand why I had a headache at 5 AM. Hint: I hadn't gone to bed yet. Realized by my late twenties.
  • maximus-decimus 4y ago
    Similarly, my father had headaches on Sundays his whole adult life. Turns out he wasn't wasn't drinking coffee on the weekends so was getting withdrawal syndromes every Sunday.
• fomine3 4y ago
  This is heavily underrated