• Universal Monk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    131·
    3 hours ago

    Da fuq? Is everyone in this thread on meds? As someone who has only ever taken aspirin and the occasional cold relief, these comments are wild to me.

    You all list meds as casually as a pharmacist. Lol

    • Shortstack@reddthat.com
      3·
      39 minutes ago

      You will find that there are lots of folks these days that have trouble coping with the collective stress of a bleak present and future.

      Meds just help us feel closer to normal so we can function instead of having a nervous breakdown every other week.

      I’m a little envious that you have the resiliency and coping mechanisms outside of meds to deal with it all

      • Universal Monk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        21·
        17 minutes ago

        I’m a little envious that you have the resiliency and coping mechanisms outside of meds to deal with it all

        I grew up in poverty, surrounded by poverty. Rural midwestern town. Population 2,000. Started working jobs 14.

        Became a teen dad. Then ended up being a single teen dad when I got custody.

        Couldn’t afford college, even with grants. Refused to take out loans.

        I didn’t have time to doomscroll and wonder when the world was gonna end. I had shit to take care of. I didn’t even have the time and/or money to drink! I worked two jobs for a huge part of my life.

        I didn’t give a fuck if a democrat or a republican was in office, because I had to go to work and feed my kid. I’d vote for who I thought was best on election day, then move on, regardless of who won.

        Now I’m retired at age 55. My house is paid off. I have no debt. Live in a beautiful mountain city of 500,000 people. I have chickens in my backyard, and I’m working on running a Lemmy instance on a server that runs on solar power. Just because I can and I have the time.

        I also don’t give a fuck that Trump won. I don’t care. I didn’t vote for him. Lots of people did. Ok, cool, onto the rest of my day.

        My point is that a lot of people would be well served by not worrying so fucking much about the state of politics and the world at large. So many people on Lemmy make being a democrat a main part of their personality.

        And how did that work out? The doomscrolling is not good for you. The world won’t end just because Trump is in office. I promise.

        I didn’t have time to do any of that worrying shit. I worked hard, made it out, and now I just fuck around on Lemmy all day, write and publish my fiction, and take trips with my gf.

        If I can do that, with my dull brain, then most people on Lemmy can.

        No hate on meds, but meh, I wouldn’t have been able to afford them anyway.

  • Rolder@reddthat.com
    7·
    9 hours ago

    In my experience with SSRIs, I couldn’t sleep for shit the first couple days, then my body got used to it and it was no problem after

  • razorozx@lemm.eeEnglish
    511·
    17 hours ago

    Anon was looking for a long term solution.

    Anon found a solution.

    Is taking long term.

    Questions the definition of what is an addiction.

  • metaStatic@kbin.earth
    152·
    16 hours ago

    hot shower and anti-histamine. mimics the biological signals of falling asleep.

    eventually the hot shower will be enough.

        • meowMix2525@lemm.ee
          1·
          7 minutes ago

          Yes anticholinergic means it blocks the neurotransmitter acetylcholine in the brain and peripheral nervous system. Acetylcholine is important for thinking, learning and memory. This is why medications such as Benadryl can cause side effects like feeling sleepy or confused.

      • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
        10·
        11 hours ago

        To be clear, the link is between anticholinergics, of which some first-generation antihistamines are, while others are less potent as anticholinergics.

        Best I can tell, the clinical advice is to avoid prescribing these to patients aged 65 and above.

        I’d still generally prefer sleeping completely naturally, but I think comments like these might make people avoid medicine that could help them improve their sleep over time. I was massively helped by the use of Hydroxyzine when I was younger, which helped me get on a path to better sleep and overall health.

  • don@lemm.ee
    218·
    16 hours ago

    Anon: has a problem, doesn’t bother to consider what options there may be to remedy it, just goes to his docco who does the docco thing, and anon bitches like an anon about the result. Scientists have yet to figure out how anons miss the wall as frequently as they do when passing through doors.

    • Sabre363@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      3 hours ago

      OR, much more realistically, Anon: has a problem, tries every at home/ otc option available which all fail miserably, goes to doc who does doc things, doc things work a little too well (at least until ones body aquires the tolerance of an elephant after only five doses), Anon discovers the agonizing and frustrating experience of sleep disorders.

      Source: been there, done that. So. Many. Fucking. Times.

      There is rarely an easy remedy for this shit, only things that help and things that do not. A doctors only job is to help you figure out what those things are, if they are not, replace them but don’t avoid them.

      • proton_lynx@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 hours ago

        Yep. I feel like people expect doctors to figure it out first try. That’s not how it works, everyone is different.

    • DesolateMood@lemm.ee
      16·
      8 hours ago

      >Anon has a health problem

      >Anon goes to the doctor to try to resolve their health problem

      >This is a bad thing for some reason???