#Stress and hormones

[exdivine]

i don’t believe men can get postpartum depression like women do. i get that a new baby affects both parents’ mental health, but i refuse to believe that men experience postpartum health problems to the same extent women as women.

[theambitiouswoman]

Herbs to help you regulate cortisol and stress 🌿🍵🧚

🍃 Chamomile when you have an anxious stomach

🍃 Valerian when your thoughts don’t let you sleep

🍃 Skullcap when you feel muscle tension from stress

🍃 Holy basil when you’ve been high stress for days

🍃 Rhodiola when you feel burnt out from stress

🍃 Gotu kola when stress is causing you brain fog

🍃 Passion flower when you feel irritable and snappy

[amygdalae]

Waiting outside the DMV feels like I'm gonna get an ulcer

[xhanisai]

Due to all the stress from Ladybugging and school and all that, Marinette's hair texture changes and becomes wavy. So her friends are like "omg your hair is so groovy nice styling" and she's like !?!?!?!?!?!!?

[sciderman]

I swear I have read your big post regarding Peter Parker's neurodivergence and why it is best to avoid labelling him, but he definitely has a weird brain

Can't find it and feel kinda sad about it cuz I deeply related to it

i know exactly which post you're talking about and i can't find it either! i've raked through my archive, and it's just - nowhere to be seen. i think tumblr eated it (it happens.)

really, tumblr's search functionality is so so useless, i don't know what to tell you. there are plenty of keywords i can search to find it that post, but the search functionality actually just does not work!

undiagnosed audhd-addled peter parker, my darling, my light, my life, my everything.

i think peter parker's such an interesting creature to write, because a lot of people will point to a certain behaviour about him and say "this is an autistic thing, right?" but a lot of those behaviours are actually, in my head, tied to certain traumas in peter's life too.

people say "oh, the food thing, peter's a picky eater because he's autistic" and yes, absolutely. but also it's tied to his trauma with his parents.

peter gets overstimulated, and yes, it's an autism thing, but also he was bitten by a radioactive spider and his senses are dialled to 11.

it's a similar case i've found for myself, too – where a lot of friends i have kind of diagnose me because i have autistic traits, but actually - i'm hesitant to claim the label or pursue diagnosis because, actually, i know where these certain behaviours come from, and they come from certain traumas. there are events i can pinpoint in my life and say "yep. that's where this behaviour comes from."

so - i think there's a lot of overlap between trauma and autistic traits. the brain is very complex! i think the reason for that overlap is maybe as simple as the fact that people with autism and people with trauma are both doing the same thing - developing behaviours to protect themselves or soothe themselves. so - i think it's nice to be able to see a character like peter parker, who may or may not be autistic, but recognise behaviours in him and see yourself in him.

people who go undiagnosed for whatever reason - people who are really good at masking - so good, in fact, that they have no idea they might be on the spectrum - everyone and anyone at all can look at peter parker and recognise themselves. because i think we discredit the thought that every single brain does the same thing! develops certain behaviours in order to survive. every brain has that same software - we've just all been faced with different hardships that we need to overcome, and that's were all the differences come in.

autism is a spectrum, i guess - everyone falls into it to some degree. and i think events in your life probably push you along on it. but i don't know, i didn't study brain science. probably what i'm saying is very stupid and uninformed. of course there's brain chemistry involved. but i know people in my life living with autism and certain events in their life have exacerbated certain behaviours or made coping with it a lot more difficult. so maybe trauma is a catalyst.

[kairenn-n]

so stupid that the body can have physical reactions to stress. like buddy dont you see youre adding to it ??? seriously how is this in any way shape or form an evolutive advantage

[rapidhighway]

Ahahaaaa oh my goddd can you not make "ADHD undereating" and "ADHD overeating" into a competition of who has it worse and who has nothing to complain about, that'd be awesome

[canonicallyanxious]

i'm stupid so i absolutely did not put together Conrad Schintz as "conscience" until i saw someone in the tag point this out but now that it's in my dumb brain i can't stop thinking about it. Alex's choice to portray Conrad as this softspoken never speaks up but still has to do Something boy who is kind and thoughtful to a fault. pitch perfect character choices!!! but also this tiny quiet boy somehow being pegged by the heads of the city as the BIGGEST DISTRACTION to the big guy's goals and ambitions!! and then his choice of the important article to pay attention to being the culmination of Elias' months and months of research - specifically for the goal of, as Conrad put it, getting it before the "big wigs" could get to it. WHAT is Elias Hodge DOING for Gobstopper Industries??????

[cern1cal0]

>> I'M THINKING MIKU MIKU OO-EE-OO <?>

[kindred-spirit-93]

penelope canonically retreating to her room and refusing food = she puts on some weight, the reason being both lack of physical activity as well as her body being on constant emergency mode (so what little she does eat ends up being stored away bc the body doesnt know when the 'starvation' will end). whats more her constant stress elevates cortisol levels which in and of itself leads to weight gain esp in the abdominal area.

tl;dr chubby penelope send fucking t w e e t

[kayvsworld]

having an allergic reaction to Something and not knowing What is like. somewhere in this airbnb is a spooky murderer with a knife and he gives you the sniffles or whatever

[sidetongue]

in love with my little crew

[kaiserin-erzsebet]

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[gojonanami]

i feel like satoru's skin is soooo goood

oh it absolutely is — and apparently with no products as we learned in that little short audio after one of the episodes 😭😭

but sometimes you would run over his face with his fingers just to see how smooth and soft his skin was. and you’d pout a little at his clear skin before pinching it.

“ow!! sweetheart, why did you—“

“it’s not fair you have such pretty skin and for what?”

“it’s not my fault I’m perfect—ow! ow!!”

[hekateinhell]

#WIPWednesday, MerMay edition! 🐠

The sequel to my mermaid fic is all I've been working on lately anyway, so here's a bit from the beginning (as usual, I couldn't help but share a smut bit 🫣):

He never could resist embracing it as tightly as he could, feeling himself tremble, overcome with an emotion that was simultaneously relief and yearning with an undercurrent of trepidation. The creature accepting his kisses over its forehead, cheeks, and lips—sloppy and urgent as Lestat was in his affections, like the mastiff's puppies back home. Its pale skin always slightly damp and deliciously cold until enough time passed in his arms that its body began to absorb his heat.

“I love you,�� Lestat had professed the second to last time he’d seen his siren. Their fingers intertwining over its head, its dark, wet curls spread out on the white sand like an otherworldly halo, palm to much smaller, smoother palm. His vision blurring from the force of his impending orgasm and his heart pounding in his ears loud enough to rival the sound of the waves crashing at his feet, shocking frigid in the early morning.

All he could see as he buried his face in the spot where the creature's pulse throbbed cold was the glint of the golden necklace he’d gifted his strange love a couple weeks prior. His hips shuttering once, twice—the reminder of what the glittering chain represented all he needed to push him over the edge, and he groaned out the words as he spilled into the tight little hole: “I love you, I love you, I love you, always going to love you…” And even if the creature had not—could not—say them back, Lestat would swear on the god he'd never truly believed in that he felt the sentiment returned in every eager kiss, every feather-light touch, every enraptured stare. Surely, even the most powerful imagination couldn't conjure something like this, now could it?

@vamptember