#73 Stress, Conversion Disorder and Stoicism

Kristen, CHILL OUT.

Kristen Carney

Comedy

4.8 • 672 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Kristen’s friend Dan is on this week’s episode talking about how the stress and emotions of being stuck in a legal battle led him to developing physical symptoms like loss of muscle control and vision changes and how he overcame them. He also talks about the 30 Day Stoic Challenge and what he’s getting out of it. They also discuss Jane Fonda’s mother’s suicide, ice soup and the worst alarm clock hypotheticals. Thank you for listening! If you’d like to support the show, please go to Patreon.com/KristenandChill and follow Kristen on Instagram @KrisCarn or on Twitter @KristenCarney

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Mentally Chill Podcast Time. Welcome back to the show. It's 9 o'clock in the morning. I know I'm normally not up at this time, but I couldn't sleep for whatever reason. So it's 9 o'clock. And someone's mowing their lawn. I think that's a little bit assuming that everyone has their lives together and that we're all awake, that it's okay to mow your lawn. I think that's a little bit assuming that everyone has their lives together and that
0:22.0	we're all awake, that it's okay to mow your lawn. There should be a law where they have some
0:27.1	respect for people who may not have it together and you can't mow your lawn until at least
0:32.3	11 a.m. That should be a law. So I hope you guys can't hear the sound of the lawnmower. But you know,
0:40.0	in the suburbia world that I'm in currently, there's just constant lawnmowers, which is good
0:48.9	because then it drowns out the sounds of everyone crying. Just kidding. No, people have very pleasant lives here.
0:56.0	I'm the one whose tears are being drowned out by the sounds of lawnmowers and weed whackers and leaf blowers and all the things that give my dad things to do.
1:06.0	Today's show I have my friend Dan on and Dan was the guy who recommended that amazing website
1:11.7	I told you guys about called You Feel Like Shit.com. He's on talking about a very bizarre
1:17.7	phenomenon or experience that he had called conversion disorder, which is a condition where a person
1:24.1	has blindness, paralysis, or other neurological symptoms that cannot be explained
1:28.6	by medical evaluation and can be triggered by a reaction to stress or psychological trauma.
1:37.1	It's not always the case, but could be the case.
1:40.2	And that's what Dan experienced.
1:41.9	He didn't experience the blindness, but he had tingling, loss of muscle control, stuff like that.
1:46.5	We also talk about the 30-day Stoic Challenge, which is not what I thought it would be, which I thought by the name, it would just be people putting their emotions away and acting strong for 30 days. But what it is
2:02.6	is 30 actionable challenges per day, a different challenge a day. And it's rooted in stoic philosophy.
2:10.7	And what is stoic philosophy, you ask? Well, I have an answer for you. Not off the top of my head,
2:16.4	but off of the computer because I am
2:18.3	staring at Google. And stoic philosophy teaches the development of self-control and fortitude
2:24.8	as a means of overcoming destructive emotions. So if you're having destructive emotions,
2:31.6	the stoic challenge is a good thing to do. The 30 day stoic challenge.
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