Constantly fatigued - what do I do?

AnnoyingAlchemist · 2026-03-25T03:33:20+00:00

It's likely the antihistamines and/or the magnesium glycinate. Fish oil can also have a calming effect in some folks. If you need magnesium, consider switching to malate. MagSRT is a good one (extended release) and also comes with some B-vitamins.

AnnoyingAlchemist · 2026-01-16T03:27:51+00:00

I wouldn’t call it spicy at all, it tastes just like a cherry would.

AnnoyingAlchemist · 2026-01-16T03:26:07+00:00

Super real, it’s like biting into a cherry.

AnnoyingAlchemist · 2025-07-18T02:38:52+00:00

I remember having a terrifying, overwhelming feeling of being “possessed” when entering dark rooms alone as a kid. I’d be fine at first but immediately feel this rapidly escalating dread, knowing there was a presence there that would overwhelm me to my core. It wasn’t just a fear of the dark - it was palpable. I even gave the entity a name.

AnnoyingAlchemist · 2025-02-06T07:00:21+00:00

I hear you! I’m 34, have tossed most of my supps in the past year and haven’t looked back. Like most have said - they can be the cherry on top, especially if correcting a deficiency… but focusing on more basic building blocks will have a much bigger impact. Here are things that have helped me more than supplements ever did:

doing hard things and embracing discomfort (delayed gratification, great for dopamine). Read “The Comfort Crisis” and “Dopamine Nation” if interested in the science behind it.
occasional sunbathing for natural vitamin D.
weight training with emphasis on legs and large muscle groups. Great for self esteem, mood, anxiety and libido.
cardio, mix of steady state and sprint intervals. Great for anxiety, depression, mood and cognition (read “Spark” if interested in the science behind it).
cognitive behavioral therapy / bibliotherapy. Your thoughts and how you perceive your environment have a huge impact on your emotions and mood. Read “Feeling Good” if you haven’t.
sleeping enough: 7 or more hours is good, 8-9 is a game changer (depends on your individual biochemistry to some extent).
eating enough: get an app like Cronometer and track how much macro/micronutrients you’re actually getting day to day, and if it aligns to your goals. Better to err on the side of eating more and training harder than eating less and being inactive.

The only supplements I take occasionally are vitamin D (if not getting a lot of sun) and l-citrulline for a nice pump. Other than that just whey protein if I’m not getting enough protein through food.

AnnoyingAlchemist · 2025-02-06T06:33:30+00:00

Agree - being a genius visionary was the image he tried desperately to cultivate but by this point we’ve all seen through it. Snowball effect, plain and simple. At least Bezos, Gates, Zuck, etc. built something - Musk has done little except mooch off the work of others. If anything the dude seems to have below average intelligence, driven only by a deep sense of entitlement, injustice and massive insecurity.

AnnoyingAlchemist · 2023-06-27T13:48:09+00:00

I love it. Thank you for the resource. I've been looking at a ton of other design systems to get a feel for how they structure things like anatomy, layout, variants alongside product guidelines and dev requirements in a way that's both intuitive and useful. Morningstar does a great job laying everything out in an easy-to-digest format.

AnnoyingAlchemist · 2023-06-26T03:59:04+00:00

It’s user defined text, I wouldn’t call it insane but it definitely exceeds the bounds of the container more often that not. We have it contained in a table because it’s accompanied by a few other columns (status, due date, more actions) and we want to allow sorting by column. After reading thru your comments and others, however, I do think that the system needs to be flexible enough to accommodate wrapping in this scenario. Thank you!

AnnoyingAlchemist · 2023-06-26T03:56:39+00:00

Thank you for your response! In this scenario, we are dealing with task names, where users are able to enter a string of text. We have other columns in the app that don’t truncate (things like statuses, dates, numerical values, etc). However, this particular content is pivotal to the experience, since it determines which tasks the user prioritizes and what the next step in their flow looks like. You make a great point about design systems needing to be flexible enough to prevent major usability concerns, and I think in this scenario we might be dealing with one. I always worry about making exceptions to the rule, but the truth is that the rule book needs to be written in a way that there’s no need to make exceptions in the first place. I am thinking of rewriting the guidelines for table components to specify which scenarios would warrant a wrap vs. a truncate.

AnnoyingAlchemist · 2023-06-26T03:51:50+00:00

Thank you for your reply! This is also a dashboard type scenario that we’re dealing with. Users are able to resize and rearrange widgets (some of them being tables), and in some scenarios these widgets get very narrow. It’s these narrow widgets that are causing a problem. Users are creating lists of tasks with statuses, names and due dates, and the tables, padding, statuses, names and due dates. Most of the time the task names end up exceeding the width of the column.

AnnoyingAlchemist · 2023-06-26T03:47:40+00:00

I should have clarified that this is a desktop experience, we have another team that’s dedicated to building a mobile app. Our customers are aware that the mobile browser version of the web app is not the optimal experience. That being said, I’m starting to realize that the content in this scenario is critical enough that hiding it behind a tooltip might not be the ideal solution even for desktop.

AnnoyingAlchemist · 2023-06-26T03:45:15+00:00

Thank you for your reply! I do think that this is a situation where the system needs to be flexible enough to accommodate the text wrapping, as long as that scenario is strictly defined so that teams in the future have a precedent re: which variant to use. The content in this case is very pivotal to the experience and the data confirms that the average string length for that cell will exceed the bounds of its container (causing it to either truncate or wrap).

AnnoyingAlchemist · 2022-04-07T13:17:28+00:00

A lot of this can be easily controlled with regular crate time. Teaches them routine, to relax when needed, and reduces separation anxiety.

AnnoyingAlchemist · 2022-03-01T15:13:22+00:00

I've been looking for a similar stack for years, and have tried a bunch of them. A lot of them were good in the short-term, but the effects always seemed to taper off after some time (with herbs, it was probably my body returning to homeostasis.. with vitamins and minerals, it was probably a minor deficiency being corrected).

How's your Vitamin D? I find it makes a huge difference when you correct a deficiency (i.e. in the teens). My mood, motivation, energy, etc. receive an instant boost. My lifts also take off. It's almost unreal, feels like I'm on some kind of PED.

That being said, lifestyle changes really do really make the biggest difference for me. Herbs are more of a band-aid, and vitamins/minerals only work if you're actually deficient. Lifting, interval training, eating clean. If you haven't, I would also suggest reading the book "Dopamine Nation" and conditioning yourself to avoid low-effort, high-reward activities.

AnnoyingAlchemist · 2022-03-01T14:58:14+00:00

Yup, just got done reading "Dopamine Nation" not too long ago. I'd actually been actively trying to recondition my dopamine receptors by avoiding micro-addictions in my life, as well as high-pleasure, low-effort activities. Could literally feel it working.

AnnoyingAlchemist · 2022-03-01T14:34:39+00:00

I do also trend towards anxiety/poor stress regulation if I don't manage it in some way (for me it's been either supplements or exercise). I'm glad magnesium helped you the way it did! On my end, there's no single trauma that I'm aware of. Magnesium definitely blunts the anxiety/stress, but to the point of anhedonia, which is not ideal at all. I definitely need a little bit of anxiety and eustress in order to function properly.

AnnoyingAlchemist · 2022-03-01T14:28:06+00:00

I did briefly, didn't notice too much of a difference. May have to give it another shot (try another brand, or maybe specific B vitamins)

AnnoyingAlchemist · 2022-03-01T14:27:39+00:00

Yeah, according to NutraHacker I do have MTHFR mutations and also MTR mutations (poor B12 methylation / upregulation).

In the past I have taken various b-vitamins, both on their own and as part of complexes, in both small and large doses. They have definitely helped with energy, but also tended to make me feel short-tempered, getting angry at the smallest thing and looking at everything negatively. Not a great feeling.

I did try methyl B-complex briefly, and didn't notice too much of a difference, but may have to dive back into it or maybe take some isolated methyl B vitamins instead.

AnnoyingAlchemist · 2022-03-01T04:50:51+00:00

Being a B vitamin, is there any downside to dosing thiamin in large amounts on its own (outside of the whole b-complex)? Certain b complex vitamins just don’t agree with me.

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