Welcome to Phoenix Rising!
Created in 2008, Phoenix Rising is the largest and oldest forum dedicated to furthering the understanding of, and finding treatments for, complex chronic illnesses such as chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia, long COVID, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS), and allied diseases.
To become a member, simply click the Register button at the top right.
Yeah, I've always looked younger.Hi lucy, anecdotally I have heard it said we look younger. Sometimes much younger.
Yeah, makes a lot of sense. I'm pretty much a homebody.Less sun exposure could be another reason for looking younger.
is the very reason why people are easily controlled by Authoritative figures IMO.Cognitive Dissonance,Avoidance, Denial, & Rationalization
If there is a lot of built up psychological stake in a certain position or attitude and a piece of solid evidence comes in which conflicts with that position, it may be easier, psychologically, to dismiss the new information than alter the existing structure.
You can imagine how ingrained psychological structures can be when a human being is raised within a certain country, system, or reality. Growing up in the US, or any culture, for that matter, you will absorb an overwhelming number of messages about what is true, what is possible, and what is important.
Many of of these messages are absorbed subconsciously and become part of the basic structure of our reality. It becomes very difficult to question the fundamentals when opposing messages only come in small doses from the “fringe.”
Consider this two example:
TruthMove - Cognitive Dissonance
- Believing that your friend is trustworthy (having built up that attitude over years of experience) is a cognition that would be dissonant with the sudden discovery of your friend stealing money from you. As a result, you might seek to dismiss or minimize the importance of this new information—maybe telling yourself it was a freak thing, a joke, or an accident, or that he was broke or desperate or on drugs. You might even try to forget that you saw it.
This was interesting. I had bone density scans done 3 years running. I think it was the years 1996-8 when I volunteered myself as a control in a study at the hospital I working. My mild ME symptoms had already arrived around 1994 (I didn't know though it was ME and I obviously falsely believed I was healthy to offer myself for a study at the time).Get a DEXA scan of your bones in your 30's and see if it's like a 70 yr old (Common in severe ME).
It becomes very difficult to question the fundamentals when opposing messages only come in small doses from the “fringe.”
there's real hope we'll one day be able to deceive the world and have sex with much younger people.
I had this convo with @Dufresne not too long ago. Personally, I think ME or at least the type I have is pre-mature ageing of the immune system. We essentially become old people whether we look it or not. What happens to 80 year olds and above?
They get boney, fatigued, their skin gets elastic, they lose collagen and connective tissue, cognition declines, exercise is a no, they don't exert but if they did I'm sure they'd crash, dry hair, dry skin, weird long body hair and facial hair, brittle bones, and most importantly they get low blood pressure, and other dysautonomia issues. Oh ya and sensitivities to sound, light, crowds etc...and poor digestion. The list is endless.
Constantly asking my mam to wait for me (she was always 10-20 steps ahead of me and would leave me to stumble behind her trying to keep up)
Joan Rivers died during an endoscopy, I believe, which should have been done in hospital due to her ageAging is most noticeable in the skin. Tom Cruise and Joan Rivers are great examples of this. I saw Cruise on The Daily Show a couple years ago and he looked as if he'd just stepped off the set of A few Good Men. He's at about 8% body fat and there's no way his face should look like that at his age. Comparing him now to how he looked in Vanilla Sky (2001): he looks ten years older fourteen years ago. Similarly all Joan Rivers' plastic surgery attempts only seemed to make her look older until she discovered the face fillers and then she dropped about 20 years. Sadly that may be what finally killed her as, apparently, she was in some sort of walk-in clinic having work done on her throat when she went into cardiac arrest. But that's probably how she wanted to go.
I expect these procedures are only going to get more affordable. Viagra has solved one of the worst aging-associated problems, and it's only a matter of time until they figure out hair cloning. So for those of us who feel cheated out of our best years, there's real hope we'll one day be able to deceive the world and have sex with much younger people.