I'm eating raw but there's really nothing I want. I have no appetite.. it's actually a PMS symptom for me. Wondering if I should try fasting..

I have a whole shelf in the fridge of greens and fruit.. Just not interested. Edited to add - Cooked doesn't interest me anymore than raw. So that's not it.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/08/2010 05:34AM by BackAgain.

Yes. If you have no desire for food, don't eat.

Agreed.

Your dopamine receptors might need repairing/cleansing...fasting and Omega 3 will help.

Dysphoria, or “Reward deficiency syndrome,” occurs when the reward circuitry underfunctions and stimuli fails to generate the normal experience of pleasure. Different personality types experience reward deficiency, some living in quiet desperation, while others compensate by ramping up stimulus-seeking for more intense highs. Stimulus seeking can manifest as any behavior that consistently increases thrill, risk, opposition, drama, and/or chaos. Others will use substances or “drugs” to cope with the lack of pleasure. We feel dysphoria when we perceive futility and disappointment in our current behavior. It is part of the harm perception/avoidance axis that facilitates retreat from experience in order to regroup. Dysphoria leads retreat in the face of disappointment, allowing us to introspect and to redirect our efforts in a more effective direction.

If we fail to find a new interest, then dysphoria shifts to depressive symptoms including hypervigilant arousal, negative focus, a rise in sympathetic tone, heightened hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and disharmonious cardiovascular tone. Resources are thus usurped from the growth processes, immune functioning, sexual functioning, digestion, healing, regeneration and creative mental processes. Dysphoria is associated with fear and panic attacks and results from an imbalance of the stimulatory and inhibitory pathways—overactivity of stimulatory centers and a failure of normal inhibitory (or feedback/counter-regulatory) control. Memory is not processed and learning is thus impaired, but instead is suppressed, repressed, disconnected and trapped in undifferentiated psychic-pain, helplessness and vulnerability. Maladaptive coping mechanisms including avoidance, persistent fearful arousal and emotional numbing become habitual and retraumatizing, which further impairs the ability to adapt and grow.

Personally, when I have PMS, eating/drinking makes me feel grounded. I'd go with juices or smoothies, to make sure I was getting some nutrition (unless I felt nauseous).

Janabanana Wrote:
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> Your dopamine receptors might need
> repairing/cleansing...fasting and Omega 3 will
> help.
>
> Dysphoria, or “Reward deficiency syndrome,”
> occurs when the reward circuitry underfunctions
> and stimuli fails to generate the normal
> experience of pleasure. Different personality
> types experience reward deficiency, some living in
> quiet desperation, while others compensate by
> ramping up stimulus-seeking for more intense
> highs. Stimulus seeking can manifest as any
> behavior that consistently increases thrill, risk,
> opposition, drama, and/or chaos. Others will use
> substances or “drugs” to cope with the lack of
> pleasure. We feel dysphoria when we perceive
> futility and disappointment in our current
> behavior. It is part of the harm
> perception/avoidance axis that facilitates retreat
> from experience in order to regroup. Dysphoria
> leads retreat in the face of disappointment,
> allowing us to introspect and to redirect our
> efforts in a more effective direction.
>
> If we fail to find a new interest, then dysphoria
> shifts to depressive symptoms including
> hypervigilant arousal, negative focus, a rise in
> sympathetic tone, heightened
> hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and
> disharmonious cardiovascular tone. Resources are
> thus usurped from the growth processes, immune
> functioning, sexual functioning, digestion,
> healing, regeneration and creative mental
> processes. Dysphoria is associated with fear and
> panic attacks and results from an imbalance of the
> stimulatory and inhibitory pathways—overactivity
> of stimulatory centers and a failure of normal
> inhibitory (or feedback/counter-regulatory)
> control. Memory is not processed and learning is
> thus impaired, but instead is suppressed,
> repressed, disconnected and trapped in
> undifferentiated psychic-pain, helplessness and
> vulnerability. Maladaptive coping mechanisms
> including avoidance, persistent fearful arousal
> and emotional numbing become habitual and
> retraumatizing, which further impairs the ability
> to adapt and grow.

That psychological-science whatever went way over my head.