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My man, there are people allergic to the sun. --- Forget about that. There are people allergic to themselves.

Don't trust your brain to not fuck you up any chance it'll get. Because it will do.

Well, yeah. Allergic to self == "autoimmunity". Happens when body systems (including brain) aren't playing nice with each other. Though the brain is a major immune system organ, whatever we're thinking about at a given moment is highly unlikely to have measurable impact on immune system status.

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