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NativeMasshole t1_j6gk6el wrote

Reply to comment by EtonRd in A mystery body washed up on a Marblehead beach Thursday has been identified as 31-year-old Michael Gray | “The truth of what happened was such an innocent but reckless mistake. … He started cold plunging sometime ago and often did it to clear his mind and help him work out his stress." by rabblebowser

The pond in my hometown is low key infamous for this. It's got cold springs, so even strong swimmers can get in trouble. You can get cramped up when you get a cold shock like that.

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Current-Photo2857 t1_j6gitik wrote

Reply to The Connecticut River valley looking north from the summit of Mount Holyoke in Hadley, Massachusetts 1900 and 2022 by Redbandana325

Forests grow back more quickly than people realize.

There’s an interesting theory regarding when European colonists arrived in the Americas and brought the diseases that killed off many Native Americans.

The theory is that the Native Americans had cleared a great deal of farmland and when many of them died from those European diseases, all the trees grew back & the forests reclaimed their farmland and absorbed so much carbon dioxide that it caused global cooling and the “Little Ice Age” of the 1600s.

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thelasagna t1_j6gfzjy wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in A mystery body washed up on a Marblehead beach Thursday has been identified as 31-year-old Michael Gray | “The truth of what happened was such an innocent but reckless mistake. … He started cold plunging sometime ago and often did it to clear his mind and help him work out his stress." by rabblebowser

Not a doctor or a therapist, but my psychiatrist and therapist recommended I do some cold exposure to help with anxiety and panic attacks and it does help. I usually try to just step outside or do an ice bath. It apparently slows your heart rate and breathing and calms the system that causes your body to go into fight or flight during panic attacks.

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