“Better living through chemistry!”, I call it.
I’ve always called it “Better living through chemical dependency!”
Reminds me of this quote from the opening scene of Wolf of Wall Street:
On a daily basis I consume enough drugs to sedate Manhattan, Long Island, and Queens for a month. I take Quaaludes 10-15 times a day for my “back pain”, Adderall to stay focused, Xanax to take the edge off, pot to mellow me out, cocaine to wake me back up again, and morphine… Well, because it’s awesome
Had a disc blow out last month, and I still have XR morphine from my friend dying of cancer, and whoa but this dude is right
But after a few days you really want a more potent opiate. Which, don’t worry, you will still take with the morphine cause you’re dependent now.
Thankfully they did emergency surgery or I’d be on the way to becoming a statistic.
There’s a period of time in the middle of the day when the caffeine and the alcohol overlap.
It’s where all my creativity happens🤡
Some “make-me-awake”-drugs make me sleep. Take that, science!
You might have ADHD.
https://effectiveeffortconsulting.com/why-do-stimulants-make-me-sleepy-adhd/
I know that I do, was kind of the joke. But thanks for suggesting.
As someone who was once told by a neurologist that I was the poster child for ADHD, I find it a lot less clean cut than “stimulants are basically downers for you.” I took addy for school but I also partied fuckin’ HARD on it. There’s like a middle dose that mellowed me out, but ROI, dosage, and what was in my system had a lot to do with it. I don’t take amphets anymore, medicinally or otherwise. Last time I tried I thought i was gonna have a heart attack.
If you read the link, you’ll see stimulants are downers for ADHD is not what anyone is saying. The perceived relative calm of a focused mind when properly dosed is perceived as being a downer, when in fact, it is just proper function.
I pass out so hard after Vyvanse. I’ve literally taken it to sleep before. Not the best sleep but its sleep!
As a pothead for decades recently cut down to just special occasions now. I can assure you that smoking a zoot before bed is not giving you a good sleep.
Can’t comment on the coffee as I don’t drink it.
Routine is the key. Same bed time and wake time every day. Never was a morning person now i wake up fresh before my alarm even goes off.
Oh boy when I do smoke a zoot now I suffer the next day.
Did you try getting high early and going to bed almost sober?
I have not tried that but I do have some anecdotal data from this week.
Been running and doing mainly easy runs to increase duration.
Not smoked all week and been great. Had about 1g of bud last night and OMG I could not wake up this morning. I normally wake up 07:45 when working from home and log on at 08:00, but I can start anytime I want really. So today I ended snoozing alarm until 08:55. Frankly it’s a 3 hour day on Fridays.
Then I was super groggy all morning and just fatigued, even after 8 hours sleep which the garmin said was not ideal and interrupted. Did not want to go for a run today but sucked it up and man it ruined me. HR kept spiking and had to keep walking to keep it low in zone 2/3. Whereas last run on Wednesday was just easy and no walking for 35 mins.
Maybe next time I’ll try smoking earlier and letting it leave my system before bed cause I can’t go through that again and it’s crazy that I went decades with this brain fog.
Do you have a time limit to stop before bed? Sorry for wall of text this is very interesting for me and now I’m unloading on you.
You sound like me, work situation and all. So how long before bed: I start as early as possible when works done and so on and consume maybe half g in my volcano over the evening (this is more effective than smoking 0.5g).
Theres no real time limit but really feeling high l, cannot drive now, not following the plot in the movie is too high in general and too high for bed.
If you lie in bed and see more flashes than usual, is too high also.
What I want is the afterglow of being high and then going to bed. That’s 2-3h past the peak. You could literally stay up longer and wait and then go to bed and get better sleep.
When I cannot get out of bed in the morning I do breathing exercises for 15min and my mood changes so I am able to get up and drink coffee. Google ujjayi pranayama
Thanks dude. I’ll definitely take this into account especially the breathing exercises as on my two office days I have to get up at 06:00 and some days I just can’t even face it and end up working from home. Thankfully my boss is a real one and we get so much freedom, but still I feel bad if I don’t do what I agree and that’s 2 days in the office and 2.5 days at home.
I’ll google that person too. Thanks man. Have a great day, wherever you are.
Edit: So I realise now it’s not a dude it’s a breathing technique. 😂
Yeah, my bedtimes aren’t exactly the same, I work meetings at night that end whenever they feel like it sometimes, but a routine in bed is important. Brush teeth, read til eyes are heavy, go to sleep. I’m addicted to reading in bed now. I’m 92% of the way through The Passenger and I have no book lined up for after and I actually get anxiety because I think my sleep will be affected if I don’t have something.
I slept poorly for a long time, and that’s improved a bunch. And with it, better at work, better at parenting, better at exercising.
Turning to drugs to help you sleep will only lead to sleep. And sleeping is a gateway drug to being awake again.
Usually in the first session, a therapist will look at your sleeping habits. It is a major indicator of issues.
Whether it is stress, anxiety, PTSD, addiction, OCD, or any other mental disorders, If this meme applies to you, I suggest you talk to a therapist. Now a days, you can do sessions all online.
Therapist: So it sounds like you’re tired all the time.
Me: yes.
Therapist: Are you sleeping well?
Me: No. But when I manage to sleep well for a few nights in a row, I feel amazing.
Therapist: Well it sounds like sleeping better would help a lot. Why don’t you tell me about your sleep routine?
Me: Well, I usually go to bed late, and then spend several hours staring at my phone until my eyes are itchy and I feel like I’m about to pass out.
Therapist: Oh. You shouldn’t do that.
Me: I know.
Therapist: You should skip the part where you stare at your phone for hours.
Me: I know.
Therapist: Okay, well our time is up. That’ll be $5000.
I wake up at three am and sit with my eyes closed until my alarm at 5:15. What do doc?
Very good advice. Actual, trained and licensed therapists can help everyone at some point. Unfortunately, the majority are severely overworked and underpaid, so finding a good therapist that has experience or familiarity with your particular circumstances may take time.
That is very true. Especially since more and more people are putting their mental health as a priority. This is a good thing but this also means a lot less time for new patients.
you missed the actual main one we use sleep habits to screen for: bipolar disorder!
You are right.
I even though I know people close to me diagnosed with bipolar, I don’t really know much about it.
I am going to guess sleep also indicates whether medication isn’t working anymore.
ITT: undiagnosed and unmedicated people
