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Thread Topic: woah
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man im so sad we got school tomorrow
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but hey GOOD NEWS we only got like 30 school days left and then freedomðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜!!! except for work days over the summer lmao
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im starting to understand why i was experiencing dementia sorta symptoms back in 2023-2025
so it’s really interesting, apparently social isolation leads to extensive cognitive decline and that reflects in the form of brain fog and greatly increases the chances for dementia by around 60%
i guess social interaction stimulates our neural connections which does make total sense but i thought our neural connections could be stimulated in other ways (hobbies, puzzles, thinking, creativity)
and actually, that makes me wonder why no social stimulation affects every aspect of our lives
I mean we don’t need to solely stimulate one group of neurons to be successful, not everyone’s an artist and not everyone’s an athlete
but social connection just isn’t optional and that makes me wonder deeply about it
I think im going to do more research because its just such an interesting topic and after going through it firsthand its something ive been looking into for the last couple years or so -
i wonder why social isolation would lead to cognitive decline in the first place though
you’d think your body would prioritize survival if you’re alone and not part of a group but it’s like everything is so backwards
or maybe im thinking of this backwards
it’s really confusing -
okay so im thinking of this in apps and i need to think of it like a network
isolation affects everything and not just social skills because it’s like a domino affect
so when you withdraw from people, your stress goes up
stress causes your memory to worsen
when you withdraw, your sleep worsens
this causes your attention to drop
when you withdraw, you are not competitive, so you feel less motivated
which causes less learning to happen
when you withdraw, you get fewer rewards, because socialization is a reward in itself
which causes depression and raises stress and influences sleep and the loop just cycles back
that clears up some things but im still confused about a lot of things and i have a lot of questions. during my time spent alone i spoke to nobody and sometimes went weeks not even talking to my parents. but i was still motivated and convinced myself i was the happiest id ever been even if it couldn’t be further from the truth
and interestingly during that time i was also the most delusional id been. maybe being around others grounds us but alone i was not sensible and i explicitly remember thinking i talked way more than the average person even though i really only said around 20 words to myself in a day lolðŸ˜ðŸ˜
i hold a lot of hate for that version of myself but learning about why this happened in the first place and the affects of everything behind it lessens it a bit -
i would just like to understand a bit more, i wonder if dementia is just caused by lack of stimulation in the brain since it usually happens more in older people and more often than not in old people that don’t talk to people
but that’s probably baseless and not accurate because ive seen dementia in socialized elders in my family, im really not well educated on any of this but i am delving deeper into it and i enjoy researching these things -
okay i was definitely wrong about dementia lol it’s an abnormal protein buildup or neuron damage and loss
that’s cool
i guess isolation is just a risk for it -
so people do ground you, i deluded myself because other people act as mirrors and usually correct you
when you don’t have that external narrative or someone to correct you you’re operating from an internal narrative and the more you feed your internal narrative with more of that narrative it weakens itself -
it’s just predictions replacing correction
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oh boy oh boy oh boy
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new page manifestation
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manifesting a new page
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page magic!!!
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pageants
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the page on the cherry on the cake
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