well if i use it much longer than that can be unpleasant.
That said if i have a 9-5 I absolutely need it every day to keep a normal sleep schedule.. I cant sleep when off of it very reliably oddly enough.
@freemo @realcaseyrollins it's funny because you don't sound like you have ADHD until you take meds lol
Hahaha, I can see that... but I do. The one thing that happens when im not on meds is i spread myself too thin doing too many things at once while following through on none of it. On the meds I get stuff done and tend to focus on one thing at a time, I just get very frustrated.
On the drugs ill follow through on something and it will be mediocer... off the drugs i wont follow through on any project but ill have 100 brilliant ideas.
Usually if i dont have a 9-5 ideally ill go through cycles on and off. When off I come up with ideas and take notes, and when on it i pick an idea and follow through, rinse repeat.
The sweet spot for me is 1-2 weeks on it. In that case I am hyper focused, no frustration, Its the sweet spot.
@skobkin all the stuff out there that does that has internal moving parts and is rather big... so I specifically dont want that, at least not until someone makes a solid state one.
Its interesting how my expiernce in almost every regard is the exact opposite.. on amphetamines I have 0 patience... even when something is going perfectly I get extremely frustrated with minor things and need to put something down just because im too annoyed with it. Off of it I can persue a thing forever.
Interesting, in many ways my expiernce is the opposite.
On them I do have a calmer inner mental dialog.. I dont talk to myself as much or get lost in thought. This is both good and bad.
I am restless in different ways on and off.. On I usually think alot more tomyself and have trouble quiting my mind. On them I get frustrated way more easily and therefore can be hard to stick with a task that is mentally challenging.
Off them I am more capable mentally to solve problems but less motivated physically to carry out the solution.
Its weird, on them I find it much harder to focus but more motivated to do the tasks, so i get more done usually.
Yea that wasnt my expiernce.. in fact off of the medication id be more likely to sit around staring at a wall than on
@BigEatie I will!
I am familiar with Diaspora, but not anything he may have done back then no.
I never got the robot feeling.. but i do get some negative side effects after a few weeks
Why do you have them blocked, and what did they do that makes you think they are an asshole?
Seems they just post dumb jokes as "facts", havent seen much out of them that seemed aholish.
@gpowerf I was going to buy the one that is about 2000 but it was just a little hard to justify, still I probably would have bought it. Then this came along for 500$ and it actually is nicer in many ways so i couldnt pass that up.
I really hope I dont get screwed over on this kickstarter... I should be getting my #Chess board next month if all goes well.. Excited about this one.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chessnut/chessnut-evo-human-ai-powered-chessboard
@certainlytwice I could live with that :)
@certainlytwice I usually dont like cologne but if its natural sents and doesnt really resemble cologne then I may like it. But im very picky with smells.. would have to be natural and something earthy like cedar smell... anything too smelly like cologne i wouldnt really like.
@admitsWrongIfProven well it starts with me twisting and stroking.. once it becomes habitual the act starts to annoy me and eventually I want to shorten or pull the hair so as to stop the playing with it. It takes several days before id start pulling it.
Ifi do anything repetitively/habitually I'd get increasingly frustrated I think.
@admitsWrongIfProven It has nothing to do with patience or self-esteem. I dont particularly care if anyone thinks different if they see me playing with my beard... I dont like it for personal reasons, like i said it feels like developing a nervous tick or something.
In short, having a long beard starts damaging my mental health... probably some mild relationship to trichotillomania or something.
I never really bothered with aftershave.. not really sure what the functional purpose is once the shaving is done?
@admitsWrongIfProven My issue is if the beard gets too long I start to play with it and it develops into a habit and feels like a nervous tick. This starts to happen around when the upper lip or lower lit is longer than maybe a mm or so.
The rest of the beard I can tolerate quite a bit longer, but that has a similar problem when it gets too long.
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