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I used to reguarly overexercise and undereat. Starvation gives you this false feeling of immortal sharpness and energy, and though the feeling of full wakefulness appears to make you more alert it does not make you sharper; I was mentally functioning at 70% (albeit whilst looking great)

Hope you find a balance with your meds and your diet!

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~tffb wrote (thread):

Yes, I was able to take the psych med last night, had some indigestion, and then it settled and I was able to eat. I ate before that too without a problem.

For me, in terms of hunger (because let's face it, I've never had to face ACTUAL starvation, fortunately), I have much less mental focus and much more anger and feelings of impulsiveness. For example, I returned home from a botched trip out west at the beginning of this month, and by the time my Greyhound bus arrived in St Louis, I hadn't eaten in 20+ hours, and I hadn't slept in that time, either. I was supposed to walk 20+ blocks to get to a Western Union location to retrieve a money order to catch a cab back to my apartment, and instead I called my sister in (self) anger and disarray, because I was so distraught that that time, that I thought I would "snap" at anyone who might have caused me the slightest inconvenience between me and the 20 block walk. Like, I didn't trust myself to control my emotions at that time, and wasn't sure exactly how to do what I was doing (walk 20 blocks to such and such address to fetch a Western Union and then arrive back home).

Kind of a "Hangry" on steroids, in a way. LOL!

Glad I got straightened out, and hope I don't have to experience anything like that again.

Hope you're good, tetris :)