That’s depression, dear.
works + job = still poor
Microdosing essentials for living = crappy living
Whodathunk?
I could actually relate to sleep+tired = still tired.
Snacking and still feeling hungry is a question of bad habits. Stop snacking so much, focus on nutritious meals.
For me, being around a few good friends is more fulfilling than being around a crowd - even if those few good friends are in the crowd.
The person who drew this comic might be living their life backwards
Snacking is perfectly fine. The problem is that many people snack on foods that are literally engineered to not satiate hunger.
So for those of you with diagnosed / actual issues that can’t be fixed with a couple habit changes, this won’t really work. But for everyone else, I’ve found these things to actually be super helpful when managing sleep and food.
To fix the nap issue, you gotta combine it with caffeine. (Quickly) drink some form of energy drink, and then take your nap. The caffeine will wake you up and you’ll feel a lot more energic about it afterwards.
To reset a sleep schedule (ie, you’ve been going to bed at 2am for the past couple days and now you struggle to get to bed on time for work) skip dinner and go to bed early. The lack of food and going to bed early is like a little soft reset to your sleep schedule. It’ll be a lot easier to get to sleep on time the next day after this.
Snacking throughout the day is the easiest way to gain weight. Lots of little food means you continually feel hungry and that your caloric intake is a lot higher than if you just had two or three proper meals. This is great if you’re trying to gain weight, but terrible for maintaining you current weight or trying to lose weight. If you’re trying to lose weight, you’ll likely be feeling hungry a lot and this isn’t really fixable, however, maintaining your current weight shouldn’t leave you feeling hungry all the time. I’m not a food person, at all, but picking better food options that don’t leave you feeling hungry before your next meal time is the better choice compared to adding a small snack to try to fix hunger.
I’m also not a normal person with regards to people / extroverted stuff, but I’ve found that big gatherings of people, like a bar or house party, are incredibly shitty ways to manage the need to socialise. A small group of actual friends is a much better way of helping with loneliness. I’ve been way happier with a small DND group meetup every week or so, as opposed to a meetup group every couple months. You gotta put in the work to find a regular group of friends, but it’s worth the effort to do that, compared to just finding a big party every couple of months and feeling sad about it.
I do #1 with my Adderall. Set an alarm for 30 minutes before I need to get out of bed, take my Adderall, then sleep for 30 more minutes.
Snacking throughout the day
Sometimes I snack not because I’m hungry but because my mouth is bored.
That’s why I started making stovetop popcorn. Easy to make a lot of, and way better than chips.
Oh! One more. If you’re struggling to sleep, and waffle house at midnight isn’t in the cards, put your body in timeout for a bit. Move out from the bed to a cold floor (like the kitchen) and lay on that for a while. Then, once your body knows that it could always be worse, head back to bed.
This assumes that the usual tricks, like good sleep hygeine such as avoiding screens before bed, aren’t available. You’re better off going with what science knows to work when you can, such as morning excersize, over a last minute tip like this.
If big gatherings of people are bad ways to socialise, than how to find a small group of friends? Small groups are small for a reason, and not a lot of people can get into it, and unlike places of big gatherings, small groups are not advertised anywhere, nor they have a website or webpage to find them.
Hobbies and meetups. It doesn’t need to be DND, but little hobby groups always start around the hobby, which then grow into little friend groups around that hobby.
My last DND group was started by me literally texting people I saw on the lfg sheet at the local game store. It takes work to find a group, or start your own, but it’s worth the effort to find a group of people to hang out with regularly.
Also, big gatherings are not a bad way to socialise. They’re just not a good way to socialise for me. Personal experience varies.
I searched local hobby groups in my city in the internet, but i only found kids cicles and telegram chats, most of which are nt even limited to my city. I want to try to go to the gym or team sport to meet and date with people, but i dont know if its effective. Also my city does not have any gaming specific stores, its either a kids toy shops, or ps5 physical discs are sold in tech stores.
I appreciate your response, and I 100% agree on the D&D group point, but I just wanted to say that the food and the sleep advice wouldn’t really work for me just because of the way my body is. I only say this so that people reading your comment will understand that it’s different for every person and what might work for one won’t work for others.
For me I actually find snacking to be healthier (as long as it’s not junk food) because I don’t overeat since I don’t feel pressure to eat a full plate of food. And I personally don’t drink caffeine but I just limit my naps to 20 minutes to make sure I can get up easily. Skipping dinner or skipping eating at night also really messes up my routines and so it would be messing up my eating routine to fix my sleep routine which wouldn’t work for me in the long run.
I wish I could take naps :/
