No, this not at all an automatic diabetic conclusion... sugar pulls water out of your cells the same way salt does. Then your cells send the same signals to your brain to make you thirsty. The effect is probably stronger in a diabetic though.

I am very much not a diabetic nor pre-diabetic, and I get thirsty if I eat stuff that is too sweet. So although you may be right about OP, this is not an automatic conclusion at all. Sugar acts similarly on your cells as salt, is regard to sapping them of their water content. That is why sugar works as a preservative the way salt does.

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A lot of older people are lonely too. It's hard to say no to a friendly face who has taken time for you. Even more so when saying yes will get you more interaction.

Old people tend to get tired and bored after retirement which can go into anything to get someone's attention, mental weakness as to something as basic as saying no to persistent people and believing they are taking on a new adventure.

Solicitors know this and take advantage of this. This is why political officials love to go by senior homes near election campaings, why your parents can go in a dealer with a beater compact and come out with the Fully loaded new version of the same model with ridiculous APR, why telemarketers used to get a game face as soon as an old grandma would be on the line ect.

On the other end, the Phone, the TV and buttons are what they used to live by, some kept up and are into social media, layered menus and verifying sources while others will still think if it came from the phone and is a polite person then it must be true.

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8% of people ages 65-69 have mild cognitive impairment. The frequency increases with age.

Source: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/17990-mild-cognitive-impairment

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Time and temperature are not equal parts of the equation. If you subject something to the surface temperature of the sun for a minute, it will not turn out well done. This is because the surrounding molecules are moving that incredibly quickly that your cake or whatever would burn to a crisp.

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Speaking for my dad he really wants to quickly become rich. He always has. So he wants to believe these scams.

When he passed we gave up trying to unravel all these websites and emails and folks taking money out of his accounts. It was too much.

Lots of good explanations here. Essentially we usually want to make sure something cooks through without burning on the outside, and thermal transfer takes time. Most baking temps top out around 450F, except commercial pizza ovens, which can be as hot as 1000F and do bake a pizza in literally one or two minutes. That works because pizzas are flat and thin, and cook through quickly.

Just adding that smaller changes in time/temp are used deliberately by cooks and bakers all of the time. It's common for muffin recipes to have the first 10 minutes of cook time at 50 F higher to activate the baking powder and make them rise quickly. Then the oven gets turned down to make sure they bake through without burning. Likewise it's common to sear meat at high heat in a pan and then put it in the oven at a lower temp to cook through.

But there are actually lots of examples of the opposite of your question--cooking something longer at a lower temp. Immersion cooking (sous vide) uses pretty low temps (less than 200F) and can hold a protein at that temp for hours without overcooking. A crock pot or slow cooker also uses this "low and slow" method.

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To quote a famous blind person, “Music is a world within itself With a language we all understand With an equal opportunity For all to sing, dance and clap their hands”

Judging by my parents, they tend to trust people. They are from a different era. Keep an eye on what your parents are doing. Talk to them. Ask if you sense anything fishy. My mother was scammed by an investment person who had a "seminar" at her church! He put her into high commission annuities that were totally inappropriate for a senior. He wouldn't talk to my sister or me to discuss what he did.

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It’s called pattern recognition, for example rhyming is a thing people are attracted to which is commonly In rap. People usually find music attracting because of all the similar patterns or rhyming words.

So —this is based on the theory that emotions are names for body states. Ie it’s not I am thinking about a test and feel anxious and then I get nauseous. Instead how emotions work is basically brain which already knows about the test is sending out various chemicals that are increasing your heart rate, increasing gut motility etc—and as a very small child you learn to name that feeling as fear. Your body is sending out chemical signals etc before you KNOW you are scared.

So you ought to learn “ everything in the gut is going at a normal rate, no changes in blood flow or digestion”= a peaceful state, contentment etc

Same with cardiovascular responses: your heart , diaphragm, lungs etc responds to things and you learn to name the response in some way—sadness, excitement etc.

Depending on your brain chemistry and your upbringing your name for the response may or may not be congruent with what is really happening in your life. For example I had an abusive childhood and was afraid a LOT. I learned that it’s “fear” and “bad things are going to happen” if my heart rate increased, stomach motility increased etc.Now when I am excited about something like a vacation, I will initially name the sensations in my body as “fear”—-sometimes to the point of wanting to cancel the thing I am excited about. I had. To do a lot of body centered therapy to rewire my names for my body’s responses and I had grown up in a dangerous environment so I tended to interpret any kind of arousal as a negative emotion.

It sounds like they are saying that people who ruminate negatively a lot have become insensitive to their bodies messages. So even though their stomachs are calm, heart beating normal, all the things that say things are ok in the world—-they cognitively are still feeling life is going badly. They aren’t receiving the messages from their body saying everything is actually pretty ok right now

Of course it’s really pretty complicated but if you struggle with anxiety or negative emotions interoception is very interesting to read about.

Was in a similar boat. Have you tried meditation? That did wonders for me. Now when the thought starts to come up I can take a breath, hit pause in my brain, try to understand what in my life might be triggering the thought , and then let the thought go without dwelling on it. Turn my mind to doing something about the current situation that might be triggering the thoughts. I know it is a trite suggestion but it really did work for me. I almost never think about suicide beyond the automatic “maybe I should kill my self “ thought. No rumination or anything

Unlikely. Maybe if you call your therapist repeatedly at 3 am threatening to do it but not just talking about it. Suicidal ideation is much more common than people think and is not the same as being actively suicidal. A decent therapist usually knows the difference. I have had suicidal ideation for YEARS ….AND I have easy access to a very definitive method of suicide….and I’ve been in therapy for years and talk about it openly. The only time I was ever kept against my will was when I basically set everything up for the suicide,then got scared bc I wasn’t 100% sure I wanted to die but I was 100% sure I would be dead in a few hours if someone didn’t do something. I told someone who drove me to the ER. Even at the ER if I had the chance to change my mind ( not sure what would have happened then) but didn’t bc I knew if I went home I would kill myself that night. I did get stuck there for a few days which were largely useless but got me through the impulse to die safely. It did cost though I am lucky to have insurance. But It’s not as if the moment you mention suicide you are involuntarily committed, at least not in any of the US states I have lived in

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The other replies are exactly correct. I was diagnosed a few years ago, and this was my primary symptom.

I waited too long after that symptom on-set, though, and ended up in the ER with heart palpitations, shortness of breath, and flop-sweat.

...and lemme tell ya -- when an overweight, middle-aged white guy stumbles into the ER sweating and re-faced while complaining of chest pain, those nurses haul ass. I went from fully-dressed at the entry door to shirt off in a bed with an EEG hooked up in less than two minutes. There was an IV in within 4 minutes, and the first blood test was heading to the lab within 8 minutes.

Please don't let your symptoms go as far as I did. You are likely still at the stage where you could lose some weight and get rid of your symptoms. Though I lost 15 pounds very quickly after my diagnosis, and lowered my A1C from 7.9 to 6.2 in 3 months, I still have to check my blood sugar daily and be super careful of what I eat.

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What do you do if you used to be suicidal for so long that suicidal ideation becomes an automatic thought?

I have no real desire to hurt myself, but every time something bad happens to me, my brain goes “What if you [suicide method]?” It’s more than call of the void—it’s a specific and very detailed method using items that aren’t necessarily nearby. (Literally the same thoughts I had when I was actively suicidal.)

Thing is, I don’t want to hurt myself. I like living! But I can’t tell my therapist and risk being hospitalized—if there’s even a 1% chance of that happening, I’ll put up with the thoughts instead. They’re not a danger to me, just stressful and annoying. Is there anything I could research?