Ho ho ho! Your secret Santa gift recipient for this year is jaded on the network.
Her real name is Jade Ellsworth-Hampton-Crowe-Allgood, because she doesn't know when to quit.
Please spend no more than 20 solars on a gift for Jade, and ensure she receives it on or before Christmas Day (December 25). If not, Santa Claus will come to your house and glare disappointedly through the windows until you cough up.
Right, so I forget if it was a medical or psychological study done not so long ago in my time but people figured out that in most cases a heavy blanket provided emotional comfort. Like being hugged basically. It triggers something in like, the autoimmune parts of the brain. Lowers your heart rate too.
Basically there was this neat paper put out by the medicine department at Penn State. I was trying to get out of an AP Bio exam, so I wrote a paper on the benefits of heavy blankets for anxiety.
A sort of friend totally has bad anxiety here. I'm going to see if I can find a 1950s equivalent of a 2020 health thing.
PS-- Still had to take the test because Doctor Burke is a troll.
Huh. That... makes a lot of sense, actually, thinking about it.
When did they figure this out, anyway? And is it any good for P.T.S.D.? I've read that contact therapy can be helpful for traumatic anxiety, so perhaps this would be the same.
The study I found was done in 2019, but it could have been discovered earlier. Weighted blankets became a big trend about 5 years ago for general use. The general marketing trend is that once things are proven useful for a select group companies try to make them "trendy" for general use.
They do love their money. Not that I have room to complain.
It's probably useful for PTSD given it's use for soothing anxiety and depression which are known to be heavily linked to PTSD.
Which means it might be useful for me. I don't have an official diagnosis. I def have the depression issues that a weighted blanket typically helps with.
I mean at least for products designed to help people it means there's more out there on the market, so maybe they can have better access? But that doesn't always work.
Ha. No. I should though. Last year when I was having one of my moods one of my best friends threatened to sit on me until my soul returned to my body. Do not use the magical phrase "I'd like to see you try" to someone who says things like that.
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<KrisKringle>
Her real name is Jade Ellsworth-Hampton-Crowe-Allgood, because she doesn't know when to quit.
Please spend no more than 20 solars on a gift for Jade, and ensure she receives it on or before Christmas Day (December 25). If not, Santa Claus will come to your house and glare disappointedly through the windows until you cough up.
Merry Winter-Holiday-Of-Your-Choice!
<a.dyer>
I know her. Kind of.
I at least know where to drop off whatever I find as a gift, so she won't know it's from me. The sneaky parts of this are the fun parts.<
<KrisKringle>
<a.dyer>
Have you ever heard of weighted blankets?
<KrisKringle>
Fill me in.
<a.dyer>
Basically there was this neat paper put out by the medicine department at Penn State. I was trying to get out of an AP Bio exam, so I wrote a paper on the benefits of heavy blankets for anxiety.
A sort of friend totally has bad anxiety here. I'm going to see if I can find a 1950s equivalent of a 2020 health thing.
PS-- Still had to take the test because Doctor Burke is a troll.
<KrisKringle>
When did they figure this out, anyway? And is it any good for P.T.S.D.? I've read that contact therapy can be helpful for traumatic anxiety, so perhaps this would be the same.
<a.dyer>
They do love their money. Not that I have room to complain.
It's probably useful for PTSD given it's use for soothing anxiety and depression which are known to be heavily linked to PTSD.
Which means it might be useful for me. I don't have an official diagnosis. I def have the depression issues that a weighted blanket typically helps with.
<whichdoctor>
Does all that mean you haven't actually managed to try it yet?
<a.dyer>
Ha. No. I should though. Last year when I was having one of my moods one of my best friends threatened to sit on me until my soul returned to my body. Do not use the magical phrase "I'd like to see you try" to someone who says things like that.
It sort of worked.
<whichdoctor>
If nothing else, I imagine it gave your friend a good laugh. Been there.