• ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    18 days ago

    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.

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      18 days ago

      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.

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      18 days ago

      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

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          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

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    18 days ago

    Comfort Eating.

    I don’t drink. I don’t smoke. I tried weed and found it uninteresting and never did anything harder. I exercise regularly.

    But I’ll still never be the platonic ideal of a “healthy person”, because whenever I’m sad, I need processed sugar to feel like a person again. And brother, does life give me reasons to be sad.

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      18 days ago

      Samesies. I remember back in college powering through a writing assignment with a 2L bottle of Coke and a 1lb. bag of M&Ms. Totally not healthy, but I learned later that it has to do with the relationship between insulin and neurotransmitters, like dopamine.

      I think I need to read up on that link more.

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      18 days ago

      That and having to constantly check myself for just being human and not being the beacon of perfection I was supposed to be.

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    18 days ago

    6 pack of beer almost every night for the past 3 months. Doctor refuses to help me unless I go to rehab, but it’s not feasible to spend that much time away from home.

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      18 days ago

      Husband was drinking 3-4 a night and I was freaking out about it, he got it down to 1-2 by not buying it in packs except on weekend. Like he will stop at the corner store and get one beer for after work.

      If you buy only one on your way home, instead of a six pack, do you think you would go out and get more, or might it work for you as it did for him?

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        18 days ago

        I managed to quit for a week by buying one at a time plus a six pack of non alcoholic beer. Trying it out again today.

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          18 days ago

          Good luck to you! A beer, a healthy supper, a walk in the night before bed. You can build healthy habits not just unhealthy ones. Do things to replace that beer. Yin yoga is really relaxing too, good bedtime practice.

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            18 days ago

            Usually I’d be three in by now. Instead I mopped my floors and walked the dog. Eating a big salad now. Trying my hardest rn.

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              18 days ago

              Awesome, that is great progress no matter what. Practice is what matters. Take care of yourself. Not kidding about the yin yoga - slow and cold, with pillows, it sort of tricks your nervous system into feeling safe.

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          17 days ago

          Naltrexone (either the oral version or the monthly injection) can be started while someone is still drinking. Might be worth asking again or talking to an addiction medicine specialist.

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    18 days ago

    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.

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    18 days ago

    Vaping, doomscrolling, not eating healthy, binge drinking sometimes. The usual

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    18 days ago

    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.

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      17 days ago

      Caffeine increased my muscle tension. Muscle relaxants counteracted it. Now off both, taking lots of magnesium.

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        17 days ago

        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?

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          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.

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    18 days ago

    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!