Fucking up my sleep schedule.
Also kinda abusing sleep medication when I get really depressed, I just take a bunch of sleeping pills so I can essentially skip time. Like a free trial of death.
This minus the pills. I have a smart watch that clearly shows that I don’t recover well if I go to bed late, but I always go to bed an hour later than I should ideally go, and always end up sleep deprived. I desperately need to cut this shit out.
Love the death analogy. Don’t we all have periods of just wanting to sleep to escape reality, but we fear non existence through death
I don’t fear non-existing. I fear the process of dying and the unknown that follows.
Depending on how you die the process can be horrible. I guess dying instantly from some kind of trauma is the easiest way to go. I have to believe the “unknown” is irrelevant because our consciousness no longer exists. Whatever atoms made us a human are simply reabsorbed into the universe. Neil deGrasse Tyson the astrophysicist has some great insights into this. If you check him out on youtube you find his speculation about god and human death
I go without changing bedsheets for a bit longer than i should
Yea, I was pretty bad at that. Like I think it was almost 9 months between changes and I was living in Australia
That’s once a year💀. Buddy, even my lazy ass couldn’t take it that far. I’m talking usually 2-3 months. I would only change it if i was having… company… Iykwim
Same, but my company required an international flight so she didn’t get to visit that often.
Bro…
Hey, me too!
Add me to the unwashed bedsheets club lmao
It’s just so much of an ordeal imo
is it that you couldn’t remember to? or you knew but didn’t bother anyway?
Nah I’m just lazy. I’m sitting on two months for my current one
do they really need changing that often though
i don’t go to bed covered in mud so all my sheets get is a bit of occasional sweat at night, i don’t get why we should change them so often. they don’t even smell!
My desk job
Chronic Stress
Whats the biggest source?
Life
This
Doom scrolling
I eat too much.
It would be too little sleep, but that is society’s fault for putting early risers on a pedestal and not being accommodating of night owls.
This is the 80th comment and no one has said “drugs” (unless you count alcohol). Maybe drug addicts have better things to do with their time than browse lemmy!
maybe drug addicts just have More ubhealthy habits
I think we should count alcohol, tobacco and vapes as drugs. They’re controlled substances, after all.
Comfort eating. Before I got adhd meds I had zero impulse control, so I’d eat nothing or eat everything. I would be 75% through a giant bag of snacks, and I’d be actively not enjoying them and wanting to stop, but I just couldn’t. I’d stop and put them away and ten seconds later I’d be back eating, even though I was feeling sick and gross.
On meds, that’s stopped and I’ve realised that my craving for snacks is all about comfort, stimulus, and self regulation, and nothing to do with hunger. But even knowing that, I struggle to bother with other harder but healthier ways of stimulating and relaxing, when I could just eat crackers with thick slabs of salty butter, or alternate between dark chocolate and salty peanuts. It’s not the worst, but I’m very conscious of that it’s not really about the food and so it feels like a lot of empty calories just to chill me out a little.
Vaping, doomscrolling, not eating healthy, binge drinking sometimes. The usual
Not sleeping like… Right now
I clench my jaw day and night, like constantly. Not intentionally, and I wear a mouthguard to protect my teeth at night, but I’m not really in control of the clenching and it causes downstream effects. Some mornings I can’t open my jaw all the way. I had the feeling of water trapped in my ear (I thought it was from using the pool at the gym), but the ENT told me it was from TMJ. At least a couple times a week I end up with a headache that starts in my jaw and teeth, radiates up my sinuses, and on really bad days, results in light sensitivity and blurred vision.
Caffeine increased my muscle tension. Muscle relaxants counteracted it. Now off both, taking lots of magnesium.
Sorry if this is too personal, but I’ve heard magnesium can cause diarrhea. Does that happen to you? Also, what kind of magnesium do you take, and is your bruxism related to anxiety?
I’ve heard magnesium oxide is the most diarrheic and least effective otherwise, so I avoid that. I take magnesium citrate, carbonate, hydroxide, acetate, malate, bisglycinate, taurate, gluconate, or whatever combination of them happens to be cheap. Never tried threonate because it’s so expensive.
There was even more anxiety with caffeine, so yeah, related.
Eating at 01:00.
Vaping or drinking.
That i don’t go for enough walks being terminally online.
Politics
Over the years having supported one party or the other I can tell you that it’s all about people wanting power over others and then ensuring that they keep it. Their reality is totally different than the reality we, the 99%, live in that they can no longer even relate to us. There is no chance that they would actually understand the issues that affect regular people and then offer solutions that would actually solve those issues. Best advice is to simply try to enjoy life. Have you ever been a big fan of a sports team? They lose and you get depressed? Politics is no different. The players of the team that you admire couldn’t care less about you and neither do politicians of either party. They only tell you what they think that you want to hear so you will vote for them and keep them in power
the connection between politics and sports tells me youre a well-off white male.
I understand that you have no threat of material loss when the wrong ‘sports team’ is in power, many people will actually face the consequences of the elites actions though.
I understand if you want to ignore this fact, but it is a fact.
Actually a Black Male who has never received one dime as a government hand out. Parents taught me not to be jealous of others and just get educated. I did. Since my college degrees were in fields that employers valued I didn’t find it hard to get a job. I was hired for my skills not the tint of my skin. I’ve found that people who like to be victims believe what politicians actually can turn them from losers into winners. People can cry all they want about how awful life is but each individual can achieve a productive successful life if realize all they have to do is tune out all the bullshit and apply themselves. I realize that most people don’t want to hear stuff like this because getting educated is hard work. Being a victim is easy. And interestingly no change of government at either the federal or state level has ever had a significant plus or minus effect on my life. But those who are victims always seem sure that a change in political control is going to be a horror show.
a black male should understand greater than anyone that systematic and economic oppression (made by governments and corporations) are the the things keeping people from ‘getting educated and a good job’
edit - realised i am trying to have a reasonable discussion that posts about fucking their gfs mum
It must be a burden to have all the right answers for everyone. What insight it must take to be able to tell a Black Male what they should think. I feel honored that you would take the time to correct me. As a Black Male how I could I possibly know how non black people have determined how I should think and “feel”.
Systematic and economic oppression are the forever excuses for those that embrace being victims. There is a big world out there of non White people who are successful because their parents told them not to believe the bullshit of forever racism.
