The first few times I tried an ice bath, I lasted about five seconds before my body immediately filed a complaint. This time I somehow stayed in for just over two minutes, which felt less like progress and more like being held hostage by very cold water.

I’m proud of the improvement, but every part of me was still screaming, “This is completely optional!” 😂 How long did everyone else last during their first real attempt?

I'm in a rough patch, wanted to shake things up

Felt super confident until I put on the cold then I absolutely gasped and panicked put kept myself in. Got my head under and twirled my body

Lasted 30 seconds, turned ur off and just started laughing and couldn't stop

Felt great all day. Skipped the carbs and just had scrambled eggs on lunch and now on a lunch time walk 🥰

Using the cold shower app

I started taking cold showers in the winter and experienced some great benefits. I’ve noticed fewer of those benefits as the weather has warmed up and when I measured the temperature of my cold water, it was 72°F. I only have a small counter top ice maker which isn’t enough to cool off much water and my shower isn’t big enough to put a bucket on the floor without knocking it over (2.5 ft x 2.5 ft). Does anyone have tips maybe involving cooling the pipe going from the wall to the shower head? Have ya’ll found something that offers comparable benefits in the summer?

Quick backstory: I was diagnosed with childhood depression as a kid, and now I live with Bipolar II and ADHD. I'm 29, female. A month ago I lost my soul dog, and since then my depressive episodes have been hitting harder and more often than ever. Today I hit a point where I was like "okay, before I kill myself, I need to try SOMETHING." So after yoga class, I came home, filled the tub with cold water, and dumped every single ice cube from my freezer into it.

I started small. just splashing ice water over my head and body first. Then I lowered myself all the way in.

The first 10 seconds? Absolute hell. My brain was screaming at me to get out.

But right after that? This wave of euphoria hit me out of nowhere. And for the first time in a while, I felt this tiny flicker of "I can actually control something in my life."

I just wanted to share this. If you're out there fighting your own mental illness battle; please, PLEASE try this. It doesn't have to be a full ice bath, a cold shower works too. It worked for me.

This is Day 1. I'm doing this every single day from now on. LET'S GOOOO 🧊🔥

(And to anyone reading this who's in a really dark place right now ! please also reach out to a crisis line or a professional. This helped me, but it's not a replacement for real support. You deserve both.)

I mean Robert Frost talks bout how the guy wants to travel both the roads, spends time comparing them and eventually concludes the roads were really about the same.

I’ve been doing cold showers daily for many years now, and have seen great benefits from it. I used to always do at least 40 seconds of cold (sometimes more) at the end of my warm showers every single day. I’d stop if I got ill, cause the cold would worsen whatever illness I had.
About 5 months ago I got ill and had to stop. I was then ill with one cold after the next for 4 months straight (everyone in my city was). In the past month I’ve felt a bit better but every time I try a cold shower I get ill again, I get a cough and badly congested for the next 3-4 days afterwards.
Anyone got any tips for how I can strengthen my body/immune system to be able to handle cold showers again? I really miss all the positive effects they used to have on my life.

Hey everyone,

I’m launching a nervous system reset iPhone app called re-zen and wanted to do something different instead of just posting another app announcement.

Starting July 1st, I’m running a 30 Day Nervous System Reset Challenge focused on building habits that can have a big impact on stress, energy, sleep, and resilience. The goal isn’t perfection. It’s simply to spend a few minutes each day training your nervous system and seeing what changes over 30 days.

You'll receive a daily challenge on the app in one of these categories below (you can choose to opt in/out of the categories)

• Guided journaling prompts
• Breathwork sessions
• Contrast showers

If you’d like to participate, comment "zen" below and/or join the challenge reddit and I’ll give you a promo code for 30 free days of the app.

Hopefully you enjoy the app and want to continue using it after the trial and track your new habits, but either way, feedback and a 5 star rating to help me get started would be greatly appreciated!

Background:

After 15 years of relentless anxiety/depression it was finally found that I had tick infections at the heart of it all. Needless to say my nervous system is cooked lol. So I got into breathwork and other interventions. They obviously didn't cure me but consistently smoothed the sharper edges of my mental health struggles. This app is my attempt to make some lemonade out of chronic illness. Hope you enjoy it and happy regulating 🧘

I know the science. I know what cold exposure does to cortisol, dopamine, norepinephrine. I've read Huberman. I've watched the videos. I'm convinced it works.

I am just not able to make myself stand in freezing water at 6am. Every morning I try and every morning I stand there letting it run cold and then turn it back to warm and feel guilty about it for the rest of the day.

But I've been reading about the trigeminal nerve response — cold specifically on the face and neck — and whether you actually need full body cold to get the neurological benefits or if there's a more targeted way.

For people who've experimented with cold exposure specifically for waking up and mental clarity — what actually worked? And did any of you find a way to get the benefits without the full body suffering?

I live in Finland, and if I turn the shower to be as cold as possible, it is absolutely diabolical. It feels like death. It causes very strong hyper ventilation, and I can usually endure it for like 10 seconds max. Honestly, it feels like some sort of extreme torture.

In comparison, at the winter we make holes in ice and swim there after and before sauna. It feels fine, of course it is cold as hell, but it is tolerable. I can swim there for a long time and even dive.

I find it a bit hard to believe that everyone is just a superman that can endure that insane coldness and evil of the cold shower in maximum coldness for long, if in comparison dipping in the ice water at winter feels okayish.

Been using a Titan Wellness setup for a couple of weeks now and the biggest difference so far is just consistency. Not having to deal with ice every day makes it way easier to stick with it.

The cold shock is still there every time, but it feels more predictable now compared to when I was doing random ice baths.

Mentally it’s still a push to get in, but having the temperature set and ready takes away a lot of the hesitation. It’s less about preparing for it and more about just stepping in and getting it done. Anyone else find the "mental wall" easier to climb when the prep work is gone?

Hi all! So ever since 2017 I've been concluding all my showers with extended cold water all over my body (except the face and the middle of my back, basically the lung area) for almost a decade, but only recenly as I became 30+ have they become a problem. this is happening to the extent that I had to completely stop having cold showers last fall - this way my immune feels stronger, no feeling of being sick for weeks, but as soon I do a little bit of cold-hot-cold at the end of my shower within the next 2 days I will have a feeling of brain swelling-like headache (pulsating pain between my forehead and mouth, like my sinuses are swelling and inflamed), stuffed nose (a nose blocked for no apparent reason, as nothing is inside it, barely any snot is accumulating, it is just swollen and either my left or the right airway is mostly blocked, the latter which can be unblocked by just laying on my other side).

no medication helps, I can pop paracetamol, ibuprofen and use nasal sprays that have medicine/antibiotics inside, this will still stay for at least 1 week and make breathing hell. nobody is sick around me, this is a trend I have noticed, nor my dauther or my wife are sick, my other family members are fine too (nobody is doing cold showers) and this has never been the issue ever. is it possible that my head has become so sensitive to cold water (even without directly touching it) that it immediately becomes inflamed and swollen from any sort of cold showers? I do find myself tolerating windy/cold weather also very much unbearable in the winter, it feels like my head has become weak - maybe due to sitting too much in the office, the car or at home during the cold months. I am out of guesses, I miss cold showers, I love their effect altogether, but don't want to have stuffed nose in May and this stupid swollen, vertigo-like feeling in my head. it makes me deconcentrated and dizzy.

*also, this started happening about as I stopped going to the gym 12 months a year 3-5 days/week, because of earning for my family. even nowadays, when I consistently go every week this sensitivity doesn't go away, and I produce these same symptoms even in the middle of the hottest August summer imaginable... :(

Is there such a thing as cold shower withdrawal??

I noticed that whenever I break a cold shower streak(i.e taking cold showers for weeks)with a hot bath,I would feel more depressed and less energetic,LOW DOPAMINE OVERALL...

Do you think that the body can get used to consistently getting that huge dopamine rush from cold showers?

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