My laboratory to test psychic ability will be built off the UCLA campus but near it. It has to wait until I get my MD, because I want to become a parapsychologist. I want to make an effort to do studies on psychics just to be able to use the psychology masters of science I want. I’m also interested in forensic psychology and law. The purpose of running a medical clinic for psychics, is that many of them are afraid to access medical care. I want to have MRIs, and PET scans so that we can determine where in the brain psychic talent comes from and how to use it.
The Continuous Glucose Monitor is finally coming. I’m looking forward to the reality of it only because I’ve been working on it with my doctor and my insurance. Yay glucose monitor. I will use less strips, and I will sleep the whole night, I’m looking forward to having this piece of hard ware. I’ve worn them down. Yes! The insurance finally found a monitor that is covered. I wasn’t able to access the free medical care that is Medi-cal, for many years. Now, I’m blessed to have the continuous monitor so thank you, insurance. I’m working on ways of making money, I’m trying to at any rate.
I’m here to submit that yes it is. I have witnessed my family overwork themselves. I see that happening all over Silicon Valley. It is a trend, a rat race culture, we are steeped in it in the Valley. We have immense trouble extricating ourselves from it. When I’d drive past Google to get to Toastmaster’s I’d see people on bikes trying to take breaks from the grind. It is shocking that we in California know how to work hard, and party even harder. The workaholism breeds a party atmosphere when on break. It is part of our culture, and that cannot be helped, and as it is I try to stay away from the rat race. The stress alone is not worth it to me because the effects of stress on the body are cumulative.
I’m a workaholic. I know that I have an addiction to overworking myself. Back in high school, I had no choice, but to pull all nighters, while in the present I manage to wake up early in the morning to write, but I make sure I get enough sleep beforehand. I have witnessed workaholism in my own family when it is tax time or an important real estate deadline lurks. I have broken the cycle by not over doing things anymore, by being careful how much Greyschool I put myself through. As a recovering and well-rested workaholic, I need to limit my work. I have to. I’m pretty much going to make sure that I rest more these days of COVID-19 so that I don’t get stressed enough to get sick.
Cumulative stress can increase your stress hormones such as cortisol. Stress can cause immune system problems, cancer, and more situations for your body like impaired digestion than you can shake a stick at. Stress drives the most innocent to eating candy, drinking coffee, or drinking alcohol. Stress triggers any addiction scenario that the addicts who have treated their problem know better than to trigger. Abusive behavior causes stress in abuse victims, which can also plunge themselves into drug use and alcoholism. That is, hands down, the number one cause of addiction is exposure to abuse as a child. In families lucky enough to be functional, it is hard for those sorts of people to understand the insane stress we abuse victims go through.
I want to take three classes a semester, but in reality with Mr. Hernia hanging over my head, and a pressing need to finish Greyschool, I’m going to try to finish my classes in that before enrolling in a normal academic program, yet I’m wild enough to do both, as Greyschool is an experiment to see how many classes I can handle before my stress goes through the roof. Schoolwork is something that in my adult life, I have to set limits on because in the fourth grade, my parents made me do all the homework assigned despite other parents complaining to the teacher that it was excessive, as a form of punishing students. Somehow with pre-diabetes symptoms, I managed to do all my homework through intensive encouragement.
I freak out. In no uncertain terms, I go, f it. I’m doing too much, who cares, and this is what happens when I overload myself. Sure, I’m plenty smart and have more degrees than the next person, seeing as I have an AA in Creative writing, a BA in creative writing and an AA in anthropology. I want AAs in business administration, with a certificate; I want an AA in paralegal studies and an AA in film and television. All this can be earned online give or take. I guess I propel myself with a horrible feeling of inadequacy because of my 22q, which makes me feel like I’m not as good as the rest, so I have to excel further than the rest. If I get an MFA, that puts me a step closer to a Ph.D. and I think I want three PhDs, archaeology, and English, and psychology. That is more than most people have only because they feel they need it. I feel I need a lot of degrees to even feel competent at any job.
Stress has various effects on the brain, including triggering a physiological response in the body. It is why managing stress is important. Chronic stress can come from chronic illness, which is why stress must be kept under control if you want to have a peaceful, normal life. Stress causes the amygdala part of the brain to send a signal to the hypothalamus. Stress then results in an increased heart rate, charged senses that read the environment for harmful anything, and a deeper intake of oxygen not limited to a rush of adrenaline that helps guide the release of cortisol, a stress hormone that helps restore lost energy. High levels of cortisol can wear one out, while stress kills brain cells, and can actually reduce the size of the brain, specifically the pre-frontal cortex. Stress causes massive high blood pressure, heart disease, and diabetes.
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