the evils of ~cortisol~ becoming a hot topic in the pop-(pseudo)science / wellness grifter sphere is both fascinating and irritating to me bc yes, there is a worthwhile conversation to be had about the physiological effects of long term stress (including elevated cortisol levels) which can be deadly and also trigger the onset of various chronic diseases, including those usually and erroneously blamed on weight. stress is indeed bad for you! cortisol itself is not, and the idea that you should focus on personally reducing one particular hormone level rather than addressing structural sources of debilitating and immiserating stress at the societal level (such as, idk, poverty and racism) seems like yet another instance in which one particular word becomes a clichéd stand-in that reduces a thorny and societal issue to a personalized and medicalized symptom.
and then the part that's sort of funny to me though is that while reducing stress would be good for us all, and ultimately requires societal transformations and material shifts in shitty life circumstances that no influencer can sell you, you do not actually want to drastically reduce or eliminate cortisol itself. I am part of a fun little subgroup whose bodies just did that anyway and it's called 'your adrenal glands stop working and you cannot produce cortisol (or aldosterone)' aka addison's disease, which can kill you. so I have to take replacement medications for that forever. bc actually having no or too low cortisol is not good and does not make you un-stressed lol
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i need to get up and do chores but ive posted on here before about my pet theory that autism and ADHD also have two primary subtypes on the adrenergic axis and most autists will have either primarily adrenaline-seeking or adrenaline-avoidant behaviors depending on what they're lacking, with a mixture of upregulating or downregulating behaviors that address self-regulation of minor states. prior to the DSM-5 the split of ADHD into the separate ADD and ADHD subtypes with or without hyperactivity was maybe a more helpful taxonomy in some sense. i remember in the 90s that it was a pretty big deal to differentiate between the disruptive, class clown, hyperactive kids and the morose, withdrawn, sluggish kids for this reason.
there's been a lot of cortisol testing of autistic people and they kept finding contradictory cortisol levels in their subjects until recently one paper i read proposed that rather than autists universally being all high or all low, it seemed to be the case that having normal cortisol fluctuations over the day was a sign of being non-autistic, and the autism biomarker was instead that autists tended to produce the wrong amount of cortisol either for our internal clocks, or for the environment, and that we were usually running on either too much (agitation, overstimulation) or too little (fatigue, dissociation).
how much of this is a direct result of PTSD, or even more interestingly, a cause of PTSD, is one of the interesting factors
More knightau :), yes sometimes taking care of the princess can be stressful bc of the responsibility but it’s mostly fun times cuz she loves them so much :)
Simon especially hates doing paper work, he’d rather train recruits or basically anything else, Johnny starts feeling antsy after a while, at least taking care of the princess keeps them on their toes but in a fun way (bc of her shenanigans) 😭😭
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