I'm using a Dolphin Neurostim VNS to recover from COVID-induced anxiety. I'm getting better over time, especially my sleep, so maybe it's working? I had really bad depression for a while too, and that's mostly cleared up. It's not cheap but it's an FDA approved therapy for a number of conditions.
It sends microcurrent (literally - millionths of an amp) through the two halves of the vagus nerve via the left tragus to the left wrist, and from the right concha to the belly. Each half takes about fifteen minutes.
When I started using it I had some weird moments where my heart would skip a beat, but I ramped up the treatment durations over a couple weeks and now the treatments are uneventful.
Supposedly it's much safer than TENS units which deal with currents that can overload your nervous system.
BTW, look into Silexan lavender oil too ("Calm Aid"). Supposedly better therapeutic outcomes than prescription antidepressants and anxiolytics, especially at 160mg doses.
Art Of Living’s course 1 Sudarshan Kriya offers breathing course which activates the vagus nerve. I have attended this course. It claims to reduce anxiety, depression and addiction. I have not practiced it regularly. Sorry to say that.
Just caution, don’t turn it up to much and don’t overdo it. More is not better. A style of it can be had cheaply with a TENS 7000 and ear clip set off of Amazon. You will find research and anecdotes to support your decision either way. That’s a truism that’s always been true but perhaps especially in this day and age of overstimulated people and an endless amount of content generators.
Ultimately if you think it’s working then it’s working.
A lower risk way is probably breathing techniques and meditation apps.
yJS has the webrtc adapter and appears to still win out in the edit benchmarks. I’ve used yJS in two projects: once just for presence chat and syncing menus for a coaching site and once in a overlay graphics app for a livestream
Biggest problem with yJS for me has been the ergonomics when I use it with React. There’s a third party project called synced store that I used for the stream overlay but it has some strange behavior.
With first party support with React in automerge I think it’s worth a shot for my rewrite
The big yjs problem for me is the documentation. A few of the most important sections are just “todo” placeholders, like the “how to write a provider” section.
It’s great at first, but woefully underdocumented if you want to use it in a way that doesn’t have off the shelf support, and the code is tough to parse (for me at least). Same with subdocuments.
I wanted to use it with Lexical a while back, and yjs plugin was too tightly coupled too a single data model and was too complicated to DIY.
In my case, my problem was wanting to sync key A’s data to/from Alice, and key B’s to/from both Alice and Bob. It was unclear to me where and when to apply which updates involved in the yjs protocols (which i couldn’t find any documentation on).
Our body can assimilate 1 Alcoholic Unit per day without any problems. I doubt those bacteria would produce anything in that order of magnitude so I truly don't understand your reply. Did you just blindly write: "alcohol therefore bad"?
Nice setup! I've been following Vercel and Cloudflare trying to sync up their v8 isolates runtime: CF is going to be a great option for running these "Edge Style" React apps once stuff stabilizes.
I was wondering why they don't move the interest rate up continuously over a period instead of flat jumps. Is the shock of jumping up in one day useful economically? That would be slightly confusing, because it seems like I'm always reading that the market has already priced in changes to the interest rate by the time the announcement comes out.
They actually do. The announcement is them saying what they target the rise to be. It may be slightly more or slightly less and it's not instantaneous. Direct lending to banks is an instrument available, but most of their influence comes from open market operations, which only indirectly impacts prevailing interest rates and consists of more or less continuous buying and selling of existing debt, which doesn't all happen on the day of the announcement.
They still need to price contracts between jumps. If they move it "continuously," then the rate at any given moment is difficult to determine. Hopefully no one is using javascript to calculate it!
It's a coarse enough instrument that changing it only a few times a year still spreads the effect out over the whole year and even if it was continuous announcing a change in the rate of change will have exactly the same effect.
