quarrk [he/him]

More than once (if that) per night is not normal. You should see a doctor if you have the means.

I relate hard to this. While I still do it on occasion, it burned me enough times that I’m basically too traumatized to do it anymore. Too many rough days where I fuck up everything due to exhaustion.

One strategy has been rewarding myself for waking up early with a nice pastry or preferred caffeinated beverage on the way to work. Or just the small contentment of reading casually before I go in, instead of rushing until I run out the door.

Basically, if my mornings suck, then I’m going to stay up to “procrastinate” the morning, illogical as that is. So the strategy is to make the mornings (more) pleasant.

Another thing is no eating within 3 hours before bedtime. I find that digestion keeps me up longer and disrupts my sleep if I do doze off. The empty stomach in the morning also wakes me up consistently, like a built-in timer. If I’m up past midnight, I will be starving and night-eat which compounds the whole problem.

Thesis: Nuking your reddit account is good for your mental health

Antithesis: If everyone nuked their reddit accounts, a lot of invaluable information (especially in niche communities) would be lost, and this would primarily hurt average people and not reddit as a corporation

Synthesis: Nuking all reddit accounts is good for society’s health. Reddit is a trash website. In the short-term it will hurt, but long-term we are better off moving these communities to decentralized platforms. There are ways to archive the important information from reddit. Reddit thrives off the free contributions of countless users who are paid nothing, and reddit claims ownership and monetizes all content freely published to it. If you don’t like reddit, simply stop posting to it, no matter how juicy the bait