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As a Person with ADHD: - first thing i do is drinking big glass of water - doing Sun Salutation yoga sequence, either 1 time or N times -as long as i am willing to do that day- - spend first 15 minutes of working hour with coffee and writing a short todo for that day into paper. I cannot emphasise enough how doing mindful exercises -even 1 minute!- regularly in the morning helps with my ADHD. But here is my ADHD trap…
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Skipping the world news might be good for your mental these days
Doesn't work for me. I feel much safer tracking the disintegration of civilization in real-time, making predictions based on that information, and adapt the timing of my escape plans accordingly. So I must newspapers from all around the world every morning, even if it's painful. I have to admit though: Yesterday I cheated. On new years morning I skipped all world news to beat 2025 to it, delaying the inevitable by a…
No offense but unless you have at least $1b or are incredibly lucky you're screwed no matter how prepared you are.
Menial and positive stories aren't as engaging resulting in the "news" being nothing but a list of all the awful shit that happened recently.
Enjoy life while you still have it. As another commenter already said, important stories will find you anyways.
I make a blended tea with YerbaMate and then some Oolong added. It is like a tea ceremony with brewing the Mate in Knudsons Bottles part full and then brewing Oolong and pouring that strained tea ontop. Oolong is dry fermented and has similar anti-oxident profile as green tea with different active anti-oxidents. They are both higher in l-Theanine than most teas, which mellows the caffeine some. Mate is high in minera…
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Doesn't work for me. I feel much safer tracking the disintegration of civilization in real-time, making predictions based on that information, and adapt the timing of my escape plans accordingly. So I must newspapers from all around the world every morning, even if it's painful. I have to admit though: Yesterday I cheated. On new years morning I skipped all world news to beat 2025 to it, delaying the inevitable by a…
> adapt the timing of my escape plans accordingly No offense but unless you have at least $1b or are incredibly lucky you're screwed no matter how prepared you are. Menial and positive stories aren't as engaging resulting in the "news" being nothing but a list of all the awful shit that happened recently. Enjoy life while you still have it. As another commenter already said, important stories will find you anyways.
Also: Different people, different coping strategies. I don't want to wait until the "Active Shooter!" cell broadcast message finds its way to my phone. :)
For some people, potentially especially those on the spectrum, having as much information as possible to work with might bring mental security and stability.
People are different, brains are diverse.
- Wake up - Grab a coffee and two cigarettes - Go take the big pile of pills "against" depression and autism - Read some world news - Get some more pills - Take a shower, thinking about killing myself, but telling myself "pills will start working in 20 minutes" - Get another coffee and another two cigarettes until second batch of pills kick in - Start coding
Just be clear: This is my DAILY morning routine for ages. So outside of that 20 minutes "Weltschmerz [1] shower" time window I am not suicidal. :) [1] "Weltschmerz" - the ONLY German word you'll ever need to learn.
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I've gone cold turkey over the holiday break and I literally felt the anxiety melting away.
Yeah, I personally take the view that any really important news will find me anyways
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> adapt the timing of my escape plans accordingly No offense but unless you have at least $1b or are incredibly lucky you're screwed no matter how prepared you are. Menial and positive stories aren't as engaging resulting in the "news" being nothing but a list of all the awful shit that happened recently. Enjoy life while you still have it. As another commenter already said, important stories will find you anyways.
Very off-topic here, but no, money is not the key when trying to find a spot on this planet that nobody does have on their radar when it comes to fucking up the planet on short notice :) Also: Different people, different coping strategies. I don't want to wait until the "Active Shooter!" cell broadcast message finds its way to my phone. :) For some people, potentially especially those on the spectrum, having as much…
I know it's stuff I can't control, and that's sort of the point. I want to know what I can't control so that I can know what I can control, if that makes sense.
0: Otherwise known as "touching grass."