Notices by Manu (manu@freiburg.social)

@BeAware
Ok, don't know if that helps you but maybe there's something in it for you :)
I used to suffer from this immensely for years, now it's become less frequent for unknown reasons (may be related to meds as well).
One thing that helped me very early on was acknowledging the end of my sleep and getting up, turning on lights and doing something nice. Apparently sleep is a bit like a countryside bus that passes every 90 minutes or so and when I miss it, I might as well enjoy the view.

@BeAware
These days, I have someone I trust sleeping next to me, which makes it much easier to stay in bed and remaining calm (don't want to wake them up). Only when my brain starts a real party (like your crabs), I get up. Usually there is some hyperfocus going on then.
But I was told that lying down with your eyes closed has a very similar effect to sleeping, knowing which alleviated the pressure to sleep for me a bit.

@BeAware
Aaaand: While counting sheep sucks for me, imagining tiles that count in binary does wonders for me. Getting past 127 is very uncomfortable but that's often when I doze off anyway.
Sometimes realizing that brings me right back but then I can count again :) Also, counting backwards from 100 or 1000 (in decimal) calms me down.

When all this fails it's still lights on and Steam Deck on the countryside time, though.

It's also very justified to call in a sick day when brain won't sleep.

@BeAware
Oh and the one rule to rule them all: No rules.
Someone somewhere once wrote an angry post about ADHD and described something they called scorched earth effect (or similar) in regard to self-organizing methods. Once one currently functional method fails and everything crumbles, it just can't be reinstated.
I feel the same about sleep-tricks. When they lose their effect, I drop them and trust I'll find something else.

@BeAware
Argh that is terrible :(
Let me know if you want my infodump on how I deal with it. Don't want to bother you with unsolicited advice :blobpeek:

@BeAware
I've learned that Vyvanse/Elvanse has this effect on more than one person. Always after taking it for the first day in a row. I know it well. Subsequent days are better.

@Taco_lad @aral
Here you go.
Had to put the alt text text in another image for you to copy. Otherwise the text is too long for a toot.
The image here is actually empty.

@pluralistic
And it's all the Phreakers' fault! Damn freeloaders 😡

@thisven @cryptpad @freiheit
Ich bin auch ein riesen Fan von, und genau deshalb der Hinweis darauf zu achten welche Browser man mit welchen Suchsettings dafür nutzt. Wenn es blöd läuft kann nämlich die URL leaken wenn sie an eine Suchmaschine weitergegeben wird, wie das bei Edge mit Bing der Fall war: https://bgr.com/tech/microsoft-edge-is-leaking-every-url-that-you-visit-to-bing/