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Staying up late. It’s not harmless.

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Same. I will potter around until 5 or 6 am and then hate myself as I have a meeting in the morning that I will either need to drag myself out of bed for or sleep until lunchtime and lose half the productive day.

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I used to do that. Now, I loooove getting in my bed and cutting out the light and it’s “night night”!

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If it was harmless, why would I care to break it?

If you strive to break a habit, it likely is because it has done harm, no?

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https://lemmy.ca/comment/5299611

Doesnt harm/kill OP, but OP wants to quit anyway.

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They have identified that the habit is harmful. Not all harm is associated with pain or injury. You can cause a person practical/emotional/financial harm, and those are still forms of harm.

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It says seemingly harmless

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… ok? But if it seemed to be harmless then why would you try to break it?

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Because it may actually not be? And maybe you already know that it isnt harmless but it could still seem to be.

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Breathing.

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You’re struggling to break that habit?

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Yes.

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I can’t stop buying Chia pets. They can’t stop making new designs. Send help.

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Reading.

Hear me out! I have always been an avid reader, get very sucked into plots. I got diagnosed with ADHD in June. Since I’ve been medicated I’ve read $15,000 worth of library books. A little of that amount was before June, but most has been since then.

I will walk around the house making food while reading. If I am doing something that requires my hands then it’s a podcast or audiobook. This all being said a lot has been manga or graphic novels but there have been days when I read 10+ books.

Probably doesn’t sound like the worst problem but it’s something that has started to impact my life in ways I did not expect.

Thanks for reading!

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How do people like you find the time to work?

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I’m on disability and cannot. But thanks.

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Ah okay, I figured it had to be a situation like that. Although I was hoping you were just rich, lol.

Sorry to hear that. I hope I didn’t offend you.

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I haven’t done the math on “value” read, but I do 15-20 hours of audiobook (because 2x speed) on work days. It definitely can make finding new reads a challenge.

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some libraries include that fun little stat on your slips.

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That is exactly how I know ! Glad my library system isn’t the only one that does that.

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That’s kind of cool. I’d need to combine a lot of different sources to get a number, though. I use all of Libby and Hoopla from my library, a scribd subscription (sorry, everand, I guess now), Audible, and Apple Books to handle my audiobook needs (and more for ebooks, though I have less time for that).

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You could try set a countdown on your phone to snap you out of it after an hour or so.

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I have tried several different ways, and I will try the alarm again since you’ve suggested it - thank you by the way - but I often get laser focused in such a way that I don’t hear my partner speaking when he’s beside me on the couch.

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That’s fair. You could try one of those classic bell-based alarm clocks, that shit will jolt even the most concentrated of people

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I’ve been sucked into a depression fueled reading hole where I just read and lay in bed for several days. What’s weird though is after a couple of days I start to narrate my dreams and if long enough it begins to make its way into my waking life?

Ever experienced anything like this?

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Whoa I have not but that sounds intense. You should try blowing stuff up with your mind.

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