@Norwegian-Mugabe I hate to be a bother, but I'm black and my family has a long history Iof prophetic dreams. My most recent one was dreaming about the beginning, middle, and end of a romantic relationship, and I lived it 1.5 years later. I had the dream in Feb 2021. I wrote the whole dream down. The relationship occurred later b/tw June 2022-January 2023. Anyway, I think this happens way more often than people think.

God sometimes shows us what will take place in the future. Sometimes as a warning and sometimes as a comfort.

@gg12 I agree with Milk Destroyer. You need a sense of agency in your life. Getting a job could help with that plus allow you to experiment with peaty sups to try and find something that works for you.

You seem to be putting the locus of control outside of yourself. You have a lot of agency to change your situation, not entirely but you can definitely put yourself into a better situation if you work on what you can control, which is yourself. If you get to a good place, you may be able to influence your family to see wisdom in changes that you make in your own life

Try getting sunlight and regular moderate exercise (long walks), mild lifting. Try following principles laid out by ray peat in podcasts. Also, try picking up a Bible if you want to connect with God. The ball is in your court. You can't fail (as long as you do a little each day to improve yourself).

You don't need to be perfect or even great. Just try to get a little better at improving your health and environment the best that you can each day. Life is not a race, and you don't have to have it all figured out. A little each day makes a big difference. You only have the power to change yourself.

These are all just keys to get you out of the learned helplessness mindset. Be well .

@DavidPS what's funny is that I started back on glycine recently (was heavy at the beginning of the year and fell off) and have had more energy as well, so it may be a combination of things...

@DavidPS I've experimented with NAC, GABA, and Alpha-GPC for reducing these symptoms now. A few days for each, and I saw major improvements (almost complete cessation of listed behaviors). I investigated these because I realize that I do well on choline (Alpha-GPC is precursor to acetylcholine). GABA activity turns out to be regulated by Acetylcholine, and acetyl-GABA is a precursor to GABA (from what I saw--please double check), and NAC also has an acetyl group and has been helpful with stopping people from smoking in past experiments.

I think NAC and acetylcholine are better than directly taking GABA from what I've researched, but I got a similar reduction in listed symptoms from using them all. Perhaps I'm lacking some precursors needed to form these.

I'm going to continue experimenting with NAC first, then acetylcholine to see if I can get even better understanding of what's happening.

I gave up the supplement front a few months ago, but I still have these little issues that I'm trying to workout. I would encourage people who are experiencing something similar to see if you can get more choline in (found in eggs) or try taking NAC or acetylcholine and see if that helps.

@DkJoe2 Thanks for the tip. For me, I felt, in the past, that curious was too strong. 2 drops on the skin were my max using Bulgarian research chemicals lol. That was months ago, and my metabolism has improved a lot, so I may have a different reaction if I try it now.

@16charactersitis good to know

@secondkelping

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Been taking 2-4 grams a day for a few days. Has a calming effect, but is it possibly serotonergic??? Feeling calm but numb...

@DavidPS hey, I'll try this and report back if it works. I had heard of NAC benefits, but I never expected it to be linked to reducing these issues.

Just wanted to know if Ray ever mentioned these behaviors in any way. I have made good progress in not biting my nails or chewing my tongue these days (yes, I do all the things in the question) not the others though (still doing a lot of pacing and pulling out my hair unfortunately). But I wanted to know if there was a link between metabolism and these behaviors. I have improved my metabolism a lot but I still struggle with these things and need some ideas on how to completely stop these behaviors for good.

Any ideas would help a lot?

All these behaviors slowly started in early adolescence due to high stress from social situations in my life at that time. My weight-gain started at the same time as well. I've really improved my metabolism, but I don't know what to do to really move forward on conquering these behaviors for good as I've been improving my health...