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I've always called it "Better living through chemical dependency!"

I thought you'd be referring to this:

A fantastic song as well!

Had a disc blow out last month, and I still have XR morphine from my friend dying of cancer, and whoa but this dude is right

But after a few days you really want a more potent opiate. Which, don't worry, you will still take with the morphine cause you're dependent now.

Thankfully they did emergency surgery or I'd be on the way to becoming a statistic.

I know that weed reduces REM cycles, but sleep specialists keep prescribing me antidepressants as sleep aids, and they also reduce your REM sleep. I've never understood why it's bad to use weed to kill my nightmares, but good to use pharmaceuticals to do the same thing.

Regardless, I've not had dreams since I started antidepressants as a teenager. I didn't start smoking weed until I was in my 30s, and that was for nerve pain after a car accident. I'm peeved that I needed to rely on my own street pharm knowledge that opiates don't work on nerve pain, because if I'd relied on the doctors, I'd be hooked on oxy right now.

Yeah but poor quality sleep is still better than no sleep at all.

I know someone who needs it to sleep due to PTSD. I think limiting REM sleep is actually the point for them. Their dreams are horrendous, wake them up, and sometimes trigger panic attacks which makes getting back to sleep quite difficult.

My watch says I get a bit more than 2 hours of REM a night which the Internet says is plenty! The biggest changes to my sleep are not eating late and hitting fiber goals.

I have opinions about that: I think you should not go to bed high but after the main effects are gone. This improves a lot of the grogginess you might have in the morning.

This also means getting high earlier in the day, Carpe Diem!

My biological mom died from an overdose of a “speedball,” e.g. mixing heroin and cocaine at the same time.

And that was years after she went into the hospital for pancreatitis, and they just blanket prescribed her opioids. From there the doctors kept bumping her prescription up, and then from there she sought pills on the street, and then finally she moved to heroin. I guess if she was alive today fentanyl would have been the next jump.

She was a byproduct of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_epidemic

And I blame the pharmaceutical companies like Purdue who profited off it more than anyone else.

This was exacerbated by the aggressive and misleading marketing of drug makers, e.g. Purdue Pharma. Purdue trained its sales representatives to convey to doctors that the risk of addiction from OxyContin was "less than one percent."

You might have ADHD.

https://effectiveeffortconsulting.com/why-do-stimulants-make-me-sleepy-adhd/

Therapist: So it sounds like you're tired all the time.

Me: yes.

Therapist: Are you sleeping well?

Me: No. But when I manage to sleep well for a few nights in a row, I feel amazing.

Therapist: Well it sounds like sleeping better would help a lot. Why don't you tell me about your sleep routine?

Me: Well, I usually go to bed late, and then spend several hours staring at my phone until my eyes are itchy and I feel like I'm about to pass out.

Therapist: Oh. You shouldn't do that.

Me: I know.

Therapist: You should skip the part where you stare at your phone for hours.

Me: I know.

Therapist: Okay, well our time is up. That'll be $5000.

Now a days, you can do sessions all online.

I wish. Germany usually has a combination of "bad internet", "tech illiteracy" and "no appointments in the next 2-4 years" .

Very good advice. Actual, trained and licensed therapists can help everyone at some point. Unfortunately, the majority are severely overworked and underpaid, so finding a good therapist that has experience or familiarity with your particular circumstances may take time.

you missed the actual main one we use sleep habits to screen for: bipolar disorder!

Yeah, my bedtimes aren't exactly the same, I work meetings at night that end whenever they feel like it sometimes, but a routine in bed is important. Brush teeth, read til eyes are heavy, go to sleep. I'm addicted to reading in bed now. I'm 92% of the way through The Passenger and I have no book lined up for after and I actually get anxiety because I think my sleep will be affected if I don't have something.

I slept poorly for a long time, and that's improved a bunch. And with it, better at work, better at parenting, better at exercising.

It's where all my creativity happens🤡

Oh man, that's why I got off meds. When I got the 4th script in the congo line of meds to treat the previous meds' side effects, I was done.