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Queue people blogging about their monthly “sleep fast” for optimized mood and focus.
plenty of people force themselves to stay up all night once in a blue moon for mental health reasons, all without blogging about it.
Once I go past 24hr I get really loopy and giggly.
Having suffered from severe depression for over forty years, this reminds me of when I was 17, 18, etc. and suddenly discovered that if I stayed up for two days, the problem went away. So I knew this a very long time ago; but it always seemed to me that, besides smoking, this was just about one of the worst habits you could develop. By my mid-twenties, I had stopped.
I recently was forced off of SSRIs after nearly ten years because I lost my psychiatrist and couldn't get a new one because the waitlists were ridiculous. After 10 years on them, the next 6 months were absolute hell (i legit thought at one point I might go full Joaquin Phoenix in Joker) but I made it through, no small part thanks to my wonderful amazing wife. Rebound depression have been an issue - though in general…
This is especially true if you are at risk for withdrawal, they will want to prevent that.
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Why don't you try it and see? Some of my best sleeps were after a sleepless night and for only like 1-3 hours, caffeine or other stimulants in the blood be damned Edit: also make sure you have bright blue light during wakeup/morning/day and mellow non-overhead orangey/amber/yellow light (nothing east of yellow) at evening/night. Red 2 hours before bedtime for bonus "points"
> Why don't you try it and see? I feel great after a few beers, but keeping that state is a very bad idea. "try it and see" is not a great idea when it comes to your brain.
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Why don't you try it and see? Some of my best sleeps were after a sleepless night and for only like 1-3 hours, caffeine or other stimulants in the blood be damned Edit: also make sure you have bright blue light during wakeup/morning/day and mellow non-overhead orangey/amber/yellow light (nothing east of yellow) at evening/night. Red 2 hours before bedtime for bonus "points"
My experience does not match up with yours here. Given work deadlines I have a lot of experience with full all-nighters and 1-3 hour nights.
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plenty of people force themselves to stay up all night once in a blue moon for mental health reasons, all without blogging about it.
Really, this is a thing? I’ve never heard about it. I used to stay up late sometimes when I was younger, but that was because the world went to sleep and I felt at peace doing my own thing. It wasn’t because I was trying to feel better the next day, in fact it tended to screw the next day up.
it is more about the third day.
not surprising to not hear about it. it isn’t permanent, so catching a “practitioner” in the right moment to bring up the topic, while being in the right moment, is unlikely.
plus, bodies are weird, and laws are scary. should everyone do this? probably not, and probably for differing reasons.
Having suffered from severe depression for over forty years, this reminds me of when I was 17, 18, etc. and suddenly discovered that if I stayed up for two days, the problem went away. So I knew this a very long time ago; but it always seemed to me that, besides smoking, this was just about one of the worst habits you could develop. By my mid-twenties, I had stopped.
I recently was forced off of SSRIs after nearly ten years because I lost my psychiatrist and couldn't get a new one because the waitlists were ridiculous. After 10 years on them, the next 6 months were absolute hell (i legit thought at one point I might go full Joaquin Phoenix in Joker) but I made it through, no small part thanks to my wonderful amazing wife. Rebound depression have been an issue - though in general…
I can't prove it, but even dumb teenage me felt instinctively that extreme sleep deprivation was likely to take a long and possibly permanent toll. I don't think anything that extreme can really be practiced in moderation, because it's more like taking heroin than eating too many cakes, etc., i.e., it's not a 'granular' indulgence.
I would hesitate to call this a hot take on my part, since I am guessing that in that period of my life, I probably stayed up for two days on several hundred occasions, if not more.
For anyone else suffering from severe depression, this is an easy answer, maybe; but there are better easy answers than this. Cannabis (I am not a partaker since I was an student) would be better than this.
Really, do anything but this. It's not 'free'; nothing that works is free.
This must be why new parents always seem so bubbly and happy! But seriously, that’s very interesting and explains what I’ve experienced. I’ve been in a depression since quitting my phd a couple months ago and not having a direction in life, but whenever I have trouble sleeping I end up feeling better the next day. Maybe I’ll trying utilizing it to get my portfolio looking better.
I went several years more or less depressed and observed this phenomenon and utilized it. Night of Kerbal Space Program and next day the world is much better. For a while. Also, a lot fuzzier. And I couldn't code very well (just good enough to do my job so everyone was happy but I could feel slipping). Therapy and SSRI:s worked much better in the end. But, for sure in a pinch it does alleviate unbearable darkness. Th…
How did you find that therapy helped you? I've started therapy a few months back and so far I can't find all that much value in it. They can't fix any of the stuff that is making me depressed, so it mostly feels like I'm mainly getting self help style advice.
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Really, this is a thing? I’ve never heard about it. I used to stay up late sometimes when I was younger, but that was because the world went to sleep and I felt at peace doing my own thing. It wasn’t because I was trying to feel better the next day, in fact it tended to screw the next day up.
There's something to it. Also with dissociatives. Something about these substances or practices can help "reset" you like pulling the plug on an electrical device and forcing it to reboot with refreshed state
it usually feels a little precarious. maybe not for others. but there’s definitely an aspect of futzing with your mortality, with your primary systems.
but if it works…