You ever get the jitters and nail biting but at the same time the caffeine has made you suuuper sleepy so you go take a nap?
This is not medical advice, but smokeless nicotine has worked far better for me.
this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2025
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I've been using snus for 2 years now, it does help but if I run out, I go straight back to other nicotine consumption methods. Currently trying to tone down my dosages. I've weened down from 12mg pouches to 6mg while maintaining the same amount of daily intake (~4 pouches/day). Beats smoking cigarettes that's for sure.
I use snuff personally. I've never felt the nicotine from a cigarette and always hated how they make your mouth taste, so I've never been tempted, even when I kept tobacco, papers and filters on hand. When I run out I often can't be arsed to get a new can for a few days or weeks.
I'm on proper ADHD meds these days, which beats any self medication. Still nice to have a lil extra.
Caffeine? Oh boy, nap time!
Coffee and Jim Beam were my go to self-medications. Not exactly a healthy lifestyle.
Monster and Weed for me.
Also not exactly a healthy life but it's "affordable" (I know sodas are expensive but I need that fizzy stim) whereas proper healthcare is not.
Ahh good ol' fashion Trailer Park Speedball. Keeps a person going through-... waves at everything
I love the implication that it takes god like focus to write an email
It really does lol. In my helpdesk queue I have some tickets from over a month ago, sometimes I need to reach god-like focus to finally break down the steps / mentally process their request and respond to them haha.
Is it possible and helpful for you to pretend you’re training a new hire and you have to show them all the steps of your job, including answering emails? I can do incredible things with the mom friend override, even if unmedicated.
I can't speak for anyone else, but all of the "trick yourself into thinking x" shit does not work for me. How are you tricking yourself if you know it's a trick? Doesn't your brain go "hold on, this isn't really a new hire, that's fucking stupid, I'm not going to do this right now"?
I just pretend I’m working on something for a new hire. I don’t believe it, but really playing it up helps. If I’m alone, I’ll straight up narrate my actions to an imaginary person.
Most of the other “trick yourself” things don’t work for me though. I also can't really reward myself after doing something to incentivize it, because I tend to get so distracted thinking about the reward that I convince myself I’ll work better after having it. Worse, even if I’ve actually gotten something done, I still don’t really ever feel a sense of accomplishment.
I also can't really reward myself after doing something to incentivize it, because I tend to get so distracted thinking about the reward that I convince myself I’ll work better after having it.
Yeah. At some point I realized that I could just skip right to the reward whenever I wanted lol
Fucking does, I'm with you.
It works better for me if there's actually someone there playing along, then it's more like... A theater performance, everyone knows it's fake but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
Of course, needing an emotional support human in a world where everyone else is busy is a very hard request to accommodate.
It can sometimes work. It's something I taught myself naturally when I was pretty young that if I verbally monologed what I was doing it would help me get it done. Unfortunately due to the daily variance of my work it can be pretty easy to get stumped on a few tickets which can snowball into a full day of doing fuck-all.
If replying to emails was easy, everyone would do it.
Look, i can pick a lock or tie a tourniquet with only vague attention. Helps, even. I can compose a poem or analyze a piece of writing, do sone light soldering or whatever with a moderate amount of focus.
But email's are hard!
The only way I'm getting that kind of focus to write an email, is if my job is on the line and I've already put off writing it until the very last minute.
Happens about once a week
This reminds me of the Ballmer Peak, but with uppers instead of downers.
The Ballmer Peak is very real with respect to gaming. Though it's very easy to end up on the other side of it, in the middle of a Rocket League game, causing all of your friends to hate you.
Also changes day to day
I have experienced this, and I chase this feeling every day
Bit of a side story, but I should've known I had ADHD when my brother was diagnosed and our (obviously undiagnosed boomer) parents were the kind of people that'd drink coffee after 6 pm and sleep just fine a few hours later. And while I enjoy caffeine I've dialed it down a lot as I really don't see the same benefits as when I was younger, and also feel like I'm just wasting money on coffee beans the price of which have risen almost 50% since covid-19 began.
For me it's all red, I drink a coffee in the morning and can't fall asleep at 10pm, I think I am a caffeine hyperresponder or some shit.
Some people are just naturally sensitive to shit like that. A friend of mine has a similar hyper sensitivity to THC, a fact that I am unbelievably jealous of rofl
B6, and B12 work well
Sooooooo, Red Bull?
Properly made beer probably
Ah, that explains it
Or even better B complex!
I've been getting moderately better results with an L-theanine supplement when I have my first coffee.
This really outlines why I swapped off coffee and started doing two cups of tea instead. Oolong is great