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Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain

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333 points glasscannon | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 12:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.321s | source
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doddpronter ◴[04 Jul 25 15:46 UTC] No.44465530[source]▶
It's crazy how much your physical health is tied to mental happiness/lack of stress. I had a friend that during his most stressful period as a 24 year old in Investment Banking had strep throat 4 times in 2 months.

Several doctor visits concluded that it was the long hours and insane amount of stress that was severely crushing his immune system.

Moral of the story is love what you do and take care of yourself: nothing is as important as your own health and happiness

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1. godot ◴[04 Jul 25 16:43 UTC] No.44465985[source]▶
I think most people underestimate how much of their immune system depends on their sleep. Sleep quality, amount (hours) of sleep, time in bed, all of it -- they matter.

In stressful periods, it's likely not stress crushing the immune system, it's the indirect relationship that stress causes bad quality sleep and low amount of sleep, that in turn crushes the immune system.

If, even if under stress, you manage to work out a system/habit that allows you to get proper sleep, you'd likely be ok.