What the votes add up to
2,480 answers from people here, spread over 345 of 461 items and sitting on top of 54,385 survey ratings. 80 items have the 30 answers they need to appear on the chart.
What people answer
The five answers, here and in the surveys that offered all five. Each of those still asked its own question on its own scale, so its mix says as much about the wording as about the items.
On this site2,480 votes
Surveys with all five answers30,941 votes
- Life-changing
- Big help
- Slight help
- Did nothing
- Made it worse
Movers and newcomers
The estimates that changed most since the first answer arrived here.
Climbed most
- High-intensity cardio12% → 35%
- Weightlifting21% → 42%
- Adderall20% → 38%
- SSRIs (Prozac, Lexapro…)3.8% → 21%
- Getting more sleep14% → 30%
Fell most
- Nicotine5.1% → 3.4%
- Probiotics4.6% → 3.5%
- Carnivore diet5.9% → 5%
- Semax11% → 10%
- L-theanine4.1% → 3.4%
Answers by category
The same five answers, split by what kind of thing was rated.
What divides people
Items with at least 30 answers here where people landed at both ends.
- Adderall14% worse, 53% life-changing
- Caffeine13% worse, 11% life-changing
- Intermittent fasting10% worse, 27% life-changing
- Running5.7% worse, 40% life-changing
- Quitting alcohol3.7% worse, 54% life-changing
- Talk therapy3.2% worse, 26% life-changing
By category
Answers per category, and how often they were a big help or better.
- Exercise81% · 345 votes
- Habits80% · 639 votes
- Therapy & help74% · 164 votes
- Gear72% · 276 votes
- Practices59% · 200 votes
- Substances58% · 326 votes
- Diets52% · 189 votes
- Supplements32% · 233 votes
- Books & media31% · 108 votes
Disagreements with the surveys
Where this site and the surveys disagree on “helped a lot or more”.
- SSRIs (Prozac, Lexapro…)26% → 67%
- Getting more sleep70% → 94%
- NoFap47% → 12%
- Caffeine74% → 54%
- Talk therapy49% → 68%
- Magnesium43% → 20%
- Weightlifting80% → 91%
- Microdosing psilocybin74% → 50%
- EMDR therapy51% → 72%
Men and women
Only 5 of the surveys recorded their respondents' sex. Across the 15 items where both sexes gave at least 30 answers, women said it helped a lot or more on 11 of them, by a typical 6 points. The list uses the surveys alone. Visitors here can share their sex too, and those who have are counted below.
- Carnivore diet40% → 64%402 vs 42 answers
- Meditation45% → 62%2,684 vs 964 answers
- Silexan (lavender oil)13% → 26%300 vs 43 answers
- Regular massage42% → 52%613 vs 1,226 answers
- Ketogenic diet56% → 50%1,279 vs 156 answers
- Psychodynamic therapy / psychoanalysis58% → 55%248 vs 53 answers
- Talk therapy50% → 47%759 vs 174 answers
Who answered them
The gaps above lean on very different rooms: the forum surveys are overwhelmingly men, the health survey mostly women.
- NHIS 2012 (US health survey)2,619 men · 5,280 women
- SSC 2019 (SSRIs and therapy)3,252 men · 713 women
- SSC 2020 (diets and NoFap)3,071 men · 261 women
- SSC 2019 (meditation)2,338 men · 320 women
- ACX 2022 (supplements)476 men · 65 women
- On this site757 men · 532 women
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