Sanity driving me insane!

[Marf]

So I am obviously doing something wrong, or am I?
I wander into an area at full health and sanity then my backpack goes nuts and my sanity plummets, as does my max health of course, no clue that it's going to happen except for a split second of backpack bleeping then BAM! health reduced to a fraction, great, take another sanity filling tab, health restoring item and off we go again, til the next time BAM sanity reduced, health reduced again wtf I am level 48 in a low thirties zone, how come my character is sooo scared of everything that she goes insane at the drop of a hat?
Do I really have to farm the beer barrel potion things on an industrial scale so I can get the half hour anti sanity loss buff just to play this game??
I really like the game but this sanity loss thing is pissing me right off, how do you guys cope with it?

[Hefutoxin]

Ignore it. If need be, use food that boosts my health.

Sanity loss will stop at a point. You won't even lose half your health to it. Just take a sanity gummy when you know you won't be in a polluted area.

[LifeisPaytoWin]

ur walking in contaminated area if ur backpack bips. easily lockated via said backpack or even the map itself.solution to sanity loss are : yellow gel deviant(from first boss heals and rstore sanity ) or sanity gummy(plant beets for sugar and ur done).....or take a bath

[Deinsensai]

Produce Beer from Corn or Wheat, easy to grow, easy to make in a Barell, you get 30min Buff that prevents you from losing Sanity, i´ve got more than i would ever need, and in the last Phases never used Gummy again^^

[schicic]

Use the slime deviant to heal. Its a good friend to have.

[Vile]

It's tied to how you build your character. Example, some builds give DMG bonuses for being above a certain HP level. It's essentially just a survival mechanic. I expect we will see something similar in the new PVE scenario in October. I usually just ignore it too and pop a sanity pill when out of pollution zone/rest at base to remove effect. When fighting Manibus if you see a pink mist get out of it ASAP as it WILL drain your sanity and health and kill you. Or you could just buy the ale potion things from somebody's vending machine if you don't want to make it yourself.

[Zhero]

I bring the slime deviant and gum food item to remove the sanity. When I start to climb level 30 above The slime deviant is my best partner now, just use the deviant to recover your health and remove the sanity and then put it back

[Marf]

Thanks all for the constructive comments, I know about the barrel drink 30 minute no sanity loss buff, been using those quite a bit, the slime deviant I didn't know about so will deffo give that a look, I always (often, sometimes ;-) forget to use deviants in combat anyway but that might be quite useful ;p

[Jabbamonkey]

I was having some issues with this. I hadn't unlocked brewing, so I couldn't get access to the really good food items. I tried the slime deviant (which runs out fast), and the tea (which just drops the sanity briefly) ... and while those worked in some areas, they did NOT work in other stronger contaminated areas. So, I tried upgrading my gear. I was using tier II items ... but the moment I upgraded them to tier IV (and did some calibrating), I had no trouble in those areas. So...

1. Food items
2. Slime Deviant
3. Upgrade Gear