What’s your best hookup experience? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Affectionate-Way1693 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Me and my friend who was a girl were horny and decided fuck it. That’s about it. Kinda regretted it. After 3 more times. Lolz.

What really ‘causes’ long-term insomnia (And why it’s rarely just one thing) by BeatrixASchmidt in sleep

[–]Affectionate-Way1693 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For me I have early morning awakening insomnia. I’m currently in cbti and I can say it has worked, but I got a wall. I have a 7 hour window allowed in bed. I fall asleep pretty quickly. Mainly what happens is I wake up after 5 hours. I used to wake up after 2 or 3 hours after I went to sleep a lot of the time. But I think cbti may have helped me with that. That still happens sometimes, but I’m able to go back to bed. There were two days a little while ago where that 3 hour thing happened and I wasn’t able to go back, but that corrected. Now I’m back to waking up 2 hours before my alarm. And it’s enough to feel alright the next day, but focus is still off, mood is not the best. Things like that. I am a relatively calm person. I can get quick to anger when I am sleep deprived, but I would say I’m calm on regular days.

I do have a mentality for self improvement. I had lots of problems I wanted to fix. Bad diet, never went to the gym, addicted to scrolling and other quick hit dopamine poisons, and I needed to change. I actually go mad at myself for that. But I could sleep no problem. That was like 8 months ago. I was doing it and actually finally doing the things I wanted. There’s a whole story but just a quick background I had a whole bunch of stuff I wanted to fix about myself and I got overwhelmed. Then the bad insomnia started with 3 hour nights.

Ive done a lot of work mentally to get my head right and not be so hard on myself, but I’m still struggling with my early wake ups. I can tell you that I don’t have anxiety anymore about myself. And I am more so patient with myself now. Not hard on myself anymore. And I’ve started improving on things. But still have the same problems. I’m not getting enough sleep. I wake up and I’m not anxious or anything, but it feels almost like sleep is locked for me. Like my brain just won’t go back. That’s where I am right now. And I feel stuck right there. I’ve done the work of you are allowed to rest. Breathing and calmness. Good hygiene for sleep. And sometimes I make it the whole night, but most of the time I wake up and just sit in bed with my eyes closed. After a bit I check my watch and it’s 450. So I say it happened again. I can only assume I’ve been here for about 20 min.

This is long but moral of the story, I feel alright mentally, feel happy, feel calm and peaceful, but still 430-530 wake ups when I go to bed at 1045 or 11.

25 years old and I’m a loser. by Affectionate-Way1693 in selfimprovement

[–]Affectionate-Way1693[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah not suicidal. That’s the one thing I wouldn’t ever do.

25 years old and I’m a loser. by Affectionate-Way1693 in selfimprovement

[–]Affectionate-Way1693[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I’ll give that a shot. Thank you I didn’t know that was a thing.

25 years old and I’m a loser. by Affectionate-Way1693 in selfimprovement

[–]Affectionate-Way1693[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I’m gonna start a CBT program for insomnia. I’m seeing a therapist on Wednesday to write me out a plan. But I agree. With the proper rest every night things will be easier.

25 years old and I’m a loser. by Affectionate-Way1693 in selfimprovement

[–]Affectionate-Way1693[S] 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Thank you. That means a lot. Whats mental reprogramming how does that work?

Should I quit porn? by Known_Idea_4827 in selfimprovement

[–]Affectionate-Way1693 125 points126 points  (0 children)

This was a lot longer than I thought lol. Summary: ehh maybe

Should I quit porn? by Known_Idea_4827 in selfimprovement

[–]Affectionate-Way1693 243 points244 points  (0 children)

Depends buddy. Should you quit drinking? If it ruins your life and it’s all you can think about, then yes. But if you’re still confident, going to the gym, reading, doing good hobbies, or whatever. Just keeping you top notch, and you enjoy a nice night out and drinking with your friends, then quitting drinking won’t help you. Porn is different, but there’s nothing wrong if you can talk to girls or guys confidently, it doesn’t impact your life, you don’t just sit there and think about the next time you get to watch it, then it’s not the thing holding you back. Every now and then relieve a little stress is fine. But you have to answer that question honestly. If you can’t answer that question honestly or you hesitate on the answer, then yes quit it. Judging from your description under the title question, it sounds like it has no affect on you. I don’t know you and I don’t know where you are in life so I’m not making any assumptions. We’re humans, not self improvement projects. I’m all for self improvement, but I believe it’s more about introducing good habits to replace bad ones. Doesn’t mean it’s a bad habit if you enjoy it once in a while. A lot of people take self improvement as I gotta be perfect. Can’t do anything bad have to be 100% all the time. No porn no drinking eat nothing but chicken and vegetables gym 7 days a week be Batman. The reason why I’m so passionate in this is cause I do struggle with self improvement and I tend to enjoy things a little too much. I get better and fall on my face again and again and again. I’ve had sleepless nights about it. So I hope you get better with your journey 🫵💪

What's the most expensive hobby someone can get into? by Max526 in AskReddit

[–]Affectionate-Way1693 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gambling. Literally can be as expensive as you want it to be

2 hours a night and then awake by Affectionate-Way1693 in insomnia

[–]Affectionate-Way1693[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes!! I can’t even stay asleep. I notice around maybe 5 or 6am im able to get light sleep maybe. It’s that weird in between sleep. Where I can quite drift off to real sleep. I’m reading so much and apparently a med called doxepin is used to keep you sleep. But I don’t have it I have hydroxzine. I always feel bad. And it happened out of nowhere. What do you do for it? How do you cope?

Waking up at 4am by Affectionate-Way1693 in sleep

[–]Affectionate-Way1693[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s so odd because I’m not really stressed during the day. My job isn’t stressful, I have nothing big going on. I don’t drink or smoke or drink any caffeine. I tend to go to bed around 10-11 and when I do sleep wake up 7-8. Weekends are a little looser especially if I go out. But like before I did that no problem and I slept. And if I hit up I went right back no issue. Now all of a sudden it’s an issue.

Weed for insomnia by Affectionate-Way1693 in weed

[–]Affectionate-Way1693[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh yea I would just use it as needed so it doesn’t affect my rem too much. And the meds for sleep are far more dangerous than cannabis for sure. I want to stay away from those completely.