• 0 Posts
  • 8 Comments
Joined 3 years ago
cake
Cake day: June 16th, 2023

help-circle

  • nomad@infosec.pubtomemes@lemmy.worldVulnerable
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    14 hours ago

    I would bet this is an oh overly active survival instinct. I feel like people describe this if I’m awoken by an unknown noise in the house. Often i don’t even know what awoke me, but I usually feel a mixture of vivid paranoia coming on mixed with the calm feeling the game of archival is on. I call it the silent killer mode and i imagine that’s how cats feel on a hunt. Usually goes away after listening for a few minutes and trying to chill. Sometimes I have to check the house to make it go away.

    There is a variation since i have kids that feels like its too silent in the house and something is terribly wrong with one of the kids. I have to check all three are breathing normally before it goes away.





  • Male here, so might not be applicable: I felt like you described about a year ago. That was shortly before the big crash. I don’t like the word burnout, but two naps per day, three to five cups of coffee and loads of sugar just to function is a good indicator your tanks are empty and you are running on fumes and stress alone. Its been a year and slowly reducing sugar and getting off caffeine for a month let me feel the deep tiredness again. I’m slowly gaining back the ability to even sleep through the night. If you can, reduce stress, keep sleeping as much as you can and cut off caffeine slowly. I stopped cold Turkey and it gave me a migrante so hard I nearly called an ambulance. What you describe is not normal and please take care of you.

    Also way back in reddit times, there was a poster that had somediseases they only found because he started to nap constantly. I don’t remember the details but I thought I might have that. 9 months of reduced work and stress and lots of sleep, I’m slowly coming back to my senses.