Sometimes, when I've researched something and compiled a ton of useful information about a topic... wish there was a lemmy for that. Kind of the opposite of asklemmy.
Baba Brinkman does rap music about science, evolution.
If you speak from experience, fellow human: is it possible to cook dried beans if all you have is a small, bowl sized pot?
Out of sight, out of mind. If I need to clean frequently, I have to keep cleaning supplies out, easy to access. Enter a room, see cleaning supplies, oh, I should clean. Without the visual reminder, won't remember.
Keep at least 2 to 3 notebooks on hand. Always writing stuff down. I'll research, be thinking about something, but brain starts to lose focus. Write it down. Will completely forget after that. But when thought enters brain later, oh wait, I made notes...
Notepad app on phone. Anything important, will forget, so need to record.
Dbt, cbt has helped. Brain tends to be scattered, all over the place, so daily mindfulness, grounding exercises to connect to moment.
Only able to process data rapidly, large scale, all data at once. So, books with large pages, lots of data broken down, grouped for rapid assimilation.
Routines are essential. Phone always in left pocket, keys in right pocket, etc. If I put keys somewhere else, I'll freak, panic. So routine, if I start to panic, look in usual spot, wait, they're where they're supposed to be.
If out in public, at a counter, take wallet out, lay on counter.... stare at wallet entire time, not breaking eye contact, or else I'll forget it's there.
Wallet attached via chain. Small compact umbrella so I can keep in pocket, otherwise will lose it. Carbiner attached to things so it's easier to hold, not lose.
OK, that was super nerdy. I'm a nerd geek, so I will definitely check that out
KFC in Brooklyn. Empty restaurant, staff noisy, raucous in back. Ordered chicken, looked kinda pink, tasted weird, but ignored instincts, kept eating, cuz hungry.
Next week I spent in apt puking guts up, sweats, feverish, feeling like death, huddled in a ball, head pressed against wall.
A week's nothing. Think my top score was 3 months with absolutely no sleep. Lifelong insomnia ftw.
Edit. Meant to say 1 month with no sleep. Don't think 3 months no sleep is physically possible. I can last maybe 3 to 4 months of just 1 to 2 hours sleep a night, before complete collapse.
Depression is circumstantial, been trapped in overcrowded slums below poverty level. What I need is a safe, clean, stable place to live, and help finding a job. Instead I'm surrounded by drug addicts, screaming, violence, overcrowding, filth; social services meager, bureaucratic and strained. It wears one down.
I need society to be better
Namaste. Anyone I've met who uses that word has always turned out to be a preachy, holier than thou, self involved tool.
Def Leppard, pour some sugar on me
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Yeah. Thought posting this to no stupid questions would be OK. No luck.