I came here to talk about stress. I have been experiencing similar symptoms to the OP and I've finally figured out that stress/anxiety are HUGE factors. Depression could also be a contributing factor.
Yes, that's pretty much what I said. With the addition that if you look at the overall evidence it does seem to be pointing towards stress as the cause.
I was under a lot of stress some time back. I started exploring meditation, and other related stuff to solve my problem. But the actual problem turned out to be something else. I was not sleeping enough. I had a shitload of debt. I was traveling every weekend for about 1400 kilometers to be with my family. I wasn't meeting my friends. I ignored my back problem.
In the last months, I cleared a major portion of my debts, relocated to my home town, started doing yoga/exercise regularly took care of my back problem... I am solving each of my problems one by one. The stress levels are slowly coming down.
No, I'm not saying that. I can't rule it out, but based on other symptoms I've had for a long time I think it's more likely that it was "just" making everything more stressful and reducing my ability to cope in general.
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