#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.

[arafinweanappreciation]

we talk about Elrond being slightly eldritch all the time but what about teenage Elwing in the Havens getting mad at Earendil for a thoughtless comment or something and when she flips out the nearby seabirds start freaking out and attacking people and Gil-galad and Cirdan just have to deal with this

[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

[lavanfalas]

Diagnosing Cullen with hormone imbalance gynecomastia :)

[gomzdrawfr]

Sap

Past Gomz would burst into tears knowing Present Gomz gets asks about oc stuff

[amygdalae]

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

[inmyglowupera]

Hormones & Weight loss (part 1) : Cortisol

Cortisol

Cortisol, also known as the stress hormone, is a circadian hormone, meaning it follows a 24-hour cycle. Its levels naturally increase in the morning with sunlight and decrease in the evening to support sleep. It works in tandem with melatonin to regulate your sleep-wake cycle. However, chronic stress and inflammation can lead to consistently elevated cortisol levels, making weight loss difficult and promoting abdominal/visceral fat storage.

🩵 What It Does: Chronic stress increases fat storage, especially around the abdomen, and heightens cravings for sugary or fatty foods.

🩵 Signs & Symptoms: Fatigue, weight gain around the abdomen, sugar cravings, sleep disturbances, anxiety, and feeling “wired but tired.”

🩵 How to Support:

• Sunlight before screen light: Upon waking, spend 5–20 minutes in natural daylight. This could include a morning walk, journaling outdoors, or simply sitting on your balcony or outdoor stairs.

• Sleep hygiene: Optimize your sleep by keeping a consistent bedtime, lowering the temperature in your bedroom before sleeping, and avoiding naps during the day.

• Stress management: Engage in activities that align with your belief system, such as prayer, guided meditation, or breathing exercises. Spend time on meaningful or creative activities, connect with loved ones (including pets), and take walks in nature.

🩵 Supplements that may help:

• Magnesium: Supports relaxation and can help regulate cortisol.

• Ashwagandha: An adaptogen with evidence suggesting it lowers cortisol levels in stressed individuals.

• L-theanine: Promotes relaxation without drowsiness, helping to balance cortisol by reducing stress.

• Phosphatidylserine: Studies indicate it may reduce cortisol spikes, especially after intense physical activity.

🩵 Always talk to your doctor if you have any concerns about unbalanced cortisol, before making any significant diet/lifestyle changes and before taking any supplements.

[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

[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

[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??????

[sainteclectic]

wholesoul is so animals cuddling to me... they're otters holding hands so they don't drift apart, they're cats curled up on a soft blanket, they're two bonded rats nestled together in a little hidey hole away from the scary world...

^ real images of wholesoul btw

[cern1cal0]

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

[nitw]

thank god i'm not a teenager anymore bc being on testosterone at 19 was An Experience 😭