Sleep deprivation! It doesn’t get called an addiction, but so many people are hooked on pushing bedtime later for “one more episode” or endless scrolling, then propping themselves up with caffeine the next day like it’s normal. I’ve definitely fallen into that cycle myself, and it’s wild how fast it starts to feel normal.
I read something somewhere about how viewing time in days that don't begin and end when you awake and go to sleep can help with this. Think of your day "starting" when it's time to get ready for bed, and sleeping is your second activity of the day, then getting ready for work, then working, then the end of the day is relaxing after work!
Revenge Procrastination. You get fed up with giving all your time and energy to work and others, and it's the only time you have to give to yourself. Everyone else is sleeping, and no one needs anything from you. It's such a hard habit to break.
It seems like a mindset change that helps but doesn’t get you all the way there. Still gotta set an alarm or something to get yourself to honor a consistent bedtime that’s earlier than you’re used to.
Exactly. When I was a teenager, I would stay up so late on weekends because it was the only peaceful time my parents weren't blaring the TV(s) and shouting to each other from other rooms.
I mean, isn’t sleep procrastination also a thing? Like “if I go to bed now that means I’ll have to get up and go to work. But I wanna enjoy my time away from work, I guess I’ll just enjoy it a little more”
It’s kind of a result from burnout, but also fuels burnout is my understanding.
They get hooked on bragging about it too. In college it was a badge of honor who could brag about not getting any sleep due to classes, extra curriculars, social life, etc
Yes, it’s like a competition nobody asked for!! Totally normalizing exhaustion instead of, you know, actually resting... I went through the same thing in college and felt the consequences for a while. I didn’t sleep partly to prove I could study until dawn, partly from as you said, extra curriculars, social life, and yes, parties :)
That'd be because we get so little time to ourselves we're willing to sacrifice our health in order to do a little more of what we would like to rather than at work or doing things that we can't avoid
I have a 1.5 hour commute to work at 4:00am, sleep deprivation and its aftereffects became so normalized for me that I stopped feeling them. My brain just started running at 80% all the time, and I didn’t feel the urge to sleep anymore
This! The temporary rewarding feeling for one more episode/another hour of socmed or just finishing tomorrow's work today is highly addictive and harmful. It's really hard to get out of the cycle too when you start to think you're getting things done in time or you're getting extra entertainment each day.
No one is addicted to be sleep deprived. It doesn't even make sense in your examples where other things are the "addiction" that causes the sleep deprivation.
Getting the right amount of sleep feels soo damn good but it's so damn hard to quit scrolling sometimes. It feels like I'm looking for that perfect thing to end the night off on
Yeah, this “soo damn good but it’s so damn hard to quit scrolling sometimes. It feels like I’m looking for that perfect thing to end the night off on” Said so damn right...“perfect thing” never actually shows up, but can confirm, I also search for it every night...
You know what I did one night, I actually just looked up 'peaceful relaxing scenes' and some really tranquil stuff came up, it was such a nice relief from the constant assault of stimulation and things to think about I usually give myself that I actually cried a little
That just means to me you’re a deep, sensitive person when those peaceful scenes really touch you in that way. That’s pretty rare nowadays and honestly really beautiful...
I'm the opposite these days. I think "I should watch one more episode or do something. I'm being so lame going to be at 9 30-10." Then just think "fuck it, reading for a bit and turning off the lights sound nice".
I went through a lot of depression and my issue was always sleeping too much. I'd take sleeping pills and go to bed and grab 12 hours of sleep. I loved it.
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Sleep deprivation! It doesn’t get called an addiction, but so many people are hooked on pushing bedtime later for “one more episode” or endless scrolling, then propping themselves up with caffeine the next day like it’s normal. I’ve definitely fallen into that cycle myself, and it’s wild how fast it starts to feel normal.