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I had sciatica for years and inflation in my hips so bad I could barely walk 500 meters while in college. Basically only kept going by iboprufen, naproxen and paracetamol. I tried everything. Acupuncture/LSD/ultra sound/kiro/physio/yoga had mri’s/xrays/you name it I had dr. Sarno’s healing back pain for 2 years on my shelf before I took a holiday and read the whole thing in one go. Fell asleep for 4 hours and woke up pain free for the first time in 7 years. Started to come back a few times but I would just read the book again and go for a run. Been smooth sailing for 10 years now.


what exactly was in the book that relieved it for you? I’m curious


Healing back pain - by Dr. John Sarno.


Same - I also read a study saying 22% muscle synthesis increase with 40 grams of casein before bed and one saying protein before bed improved sleep quality.


So a bedtime glass of milk and small bowl of soybeans is a good move?


Yes - unless you have to wake up to pee I guess. Casein is one of the slowest absorbed proteins so it releases over 6 hours in most cases. I think soy beans is probably the same since its mixed in with fiber. If you compare it to whey isolate thats absorbed after 1. This doesn’t have the same effect.


I really feel casein before bedtime improves my sleep drastically! (I have a bucket of micellar casein powder)


The best thing you can do is compare it to another study, since turning 0.06 standard deviations into a percentage of happiness isn’t going to be that telling.

In general, 0.2 is considered a small effect. So 0.06 is quite small — likely not a practically noticeable change in well-being. But impressive to me when I compare it to effect sizes of therapy interventions which can lie around 0.3 for 12 weeks.

Quote:

> “50 randomized controlled trials that were published in 51 articles between 1998 and August 2018. We found standardized mean differences of Hedges’ g = 0.34 for subjective well-being, Hedges’ g = 0.39 for psychological well-being, indicating small to moderate effects, and Hedges’ g = 0.29 for depression, and Hedges’ g = 0.35 for anxiety and stress, indicating small effects.”

(Source: The efficacy of multi-component positive psychology interventions, 2019 — https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331028589_The_Effic...)


Caveat: I'm not very smart

So, if 0.3 is 12 weeks of therapy, then 0.06 is ~2.5 weeks of therapy (0.3/0.06 = 2.4), assuming you pick any 2.5 random weeks of the 12 week course.

Yes, I'm sure the first session is the most important and then a logarithmic curve of blah blah blah.

Essentially, deleting FB is not much, but it's not nothing either.


This is a very useful insight, thank you. Wouldn't have occurred to me to check something like that.


And they have to want to


I have a few mail servers and I have not had your problem but this could be because I use fail2ban, and have it drop requests above a certain threshold in a given time frame.

Depending on how these ddos attacks are getting sent this might help.


Thanks - my mailserver uses fail2ban too but i think i should check the configuration out.

Edit: found out that fail2ban blocked a known abuser: https://www.abuseipdb.com/check/212.70.149.67

But my ban time was very low, thanks for the heads up!


This is a very useful answer. My 2 cents: I would add hypnotherapy to the list of possible treatments - with focus on looking at your emotions. Trauma or unresolved emotional issues almost always result in “Body Armouring” or Psychosomatic symptoms of some kind. Depression and back pain go hand in hand. - I’m a psychologist and hypnotherapist.


I remember reading that this was considered, but that there was a significant concern it would lead to passengers spending more time trying to break in to the lockers to get their bags. So it was abandoned.


I can't beleive that it can be any worse than if people can get their luggage out. When you arrive to the gate on something like an A320 or 737, at the middle seats you often need to wait five minutes until everyone ahead and behind you (assuming both exits are used) has collected their luggage and got off. Often the isle ahead of the blocker is clear, it's just someone is struggling to get their luggage out and nobody else can get past.

Federal and international regulations state than an aircraft with more than 44 passengers must be able to be fully evacuated in less than half of that - 90 seconds. Crews are meticulously trained for this, including practical tests. (My wife used to be crew on 777 and A380)


I'm guessing they are talking about the whale being a weapon, and Russia has admitted to training beluga's.

>a 2017 report by TV Zvezda, a station owned by the defence ministry, revealed that the Russian navy has again been training beluga whales, seals and bottlenose dolphins for military purposes in polar waters. In the past three years, president Vladimir Putin has reopened three former Soviet military bases along its vast Arctic coastline.

>The recent research and training was done by Murmansk Sea Biology Research Institute in northern Russia on behalf of the navy to see if beluga whales could be used to “guard entrances to naval bases’” in arctic regions, “assist deepwater divers and if necessary kill any strangers who enter their territory”.


I would have gone with "Canadian Psychiatrist is rebranding 40 year old treatment". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_E._Sarno


As far as I can tell, Sarno himself is mostly rebranding much older ideas from psychosomatic medicine and psychodynamic psychotherapy, with his main contribution being that he presents them in a way that people are less likely to reject than the "proper" forms.


I completely agree with this.

I think the important thing is to focus on the long term. Pacing yourself.

My ability to focus used to be terrible. But as with a lot of things, what you practise you get better at. Meditation can help you practise this, and also give you a reset when you're running low on focus.

I recommend being preemptive, and getting in mental shape, getting in shape, and not over extending yourself.

I can easily focus for 2-3 hours, but then I will be trashed, instead I pace myself and work for 45 minutes then enforce a 15 minute meditation session. If I'm feeling burnt out, I might go outside or take a longer meditation session.

My meditation style is: I focus on moving my attention back to my breath every time it wanders off, while listening to white noise.


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