Staying up late. It’s not harmless.
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?
Doesnt harm/kill OP, but OP wants to quit anyway.
… ok? But if it seemed to be harmless then why would you try to break it?
Breathing.
I can’t stop buying Chia pets. They can’t stop making new designs. Send help.
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!
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.
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.
That is exactly how I know ! Glad my library system isn’t the only one that does that.
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).
You could try set a countdown on your phone to snap you out of it after an hour or so.
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.
That’s fair. You could try one of those classic bell-based alarm clocks, that shit will jolt even the most concentrated of people
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?