He "feels fine" because he does not know how "fine" feels. The human body and psyche do a superb job of glossing over things and allow us to operate in non-optimal situations and even consider them "normal" if we do it for long enough.
Case in point, 5 years ago I went to the doctor's for a couple of small unrelated ailments. After a handful of questions, I was hospitalized with tachycardia. One hot heart doctor and 5 expensive prescriptions later, I now know what "fine" feels like. I never realized how sluggish and tired I was every day, how my poor diet and lack of aerobic exercise contributed to it. The slimmer, healthier idlethreat still feels "fine". But it's a new "fine".
Yeah, dude needs to eat actual food and get some exercise in. It's amazing he hasn't gotten a severe vitamin deficiency yet.
I totally agree with you idlethreat. I had cardicac issues too, as well as high blood pressure. To top it off, I smoked. I thought I felt OK, but after surgery, quitting smoking, getting my BP under control, and changing my caffine intake, I now feel better than I ever did or knew I could. It is incouraging that this guy is seeing a therapist. I hope he can break his food aversion. It can be difficult to stay healthy on a "normal" vegetarian diet, and impossible on his diet.
He "feels fine" because he does not know how "fine" feels. The human body and psyche do a superb job of glossing over things and allow us to operate in non-optimal situations and even consider them "normal" if we do it for long enough.
Case in point, 5 years ago I went to the doctor's for a couple of small unrelated ailments. After a handful of questions, I was hospitalized with tachycardia. One hot heart doctor and 5 expensive prescriptions later, I now know what "fine" feels like. I never realized how sluggish and tired I was every day, how my poor diet and lack of aerobic exercise contributed to it. The slimmer, healthier idlethreat still feels "fine". But it's a new "fine".
Yeah, dude needs to eat actual food and get some exercise in. It's amazing he hasn't gotten a severe vitamin deficiency yet.
I totally agree with you idlethreat. I had cardicac issues too, as well as high blood pressure. To top it off, I smoked. I thought I felt OK, but after surgery, quitting smoking, getting my BP under control, and changing my caffine intake, I now feel better than I ever did or knew I could. It is incouraging that this guy is seeing a therapist. I hope he can break his food aversion. It can be difficult to stay healthy on a "normal" vegetarian diet, and impossible on his diet.