#not that I drank any tea

[whumpshaped]

maybe this is a tip you already know but if not i think this might be worth a try! i used to struggle with falling asleep a lot (nowadays less thankfully) and one method that has helped me very often is kind of meditative i guess? idk if it has a name but i’ll just describe it

i basically start with my toes and work my way up to my head in small steps, (mentally) telling each body part that it’s getting heavy and tired. i try to keep a slow pace and to emphasise the sleepy adjectives and it helps me calm down and to keep my thoughts in order and not think about 1000 things at once. some days it works better than others but even if i’m still awake by the time i reach my head (which i usually don’t) i just repeat the whole thing again.

plus just laying down with your eyes closed helps your body rest too, even if you are not sleeping. that thought helps me not get too frustrated if i have a bad day/ night and can’t seem to fall asleep.

yeah i know this one well :) damn i forget what its called too. smth body. body centred meditation? or just body meditation? body awareness? idk i did it a lot for a bunch of stuff. idk. yknow what tho? i think it mightve been the amount of tea i drank. thats likely it.

but on the flip side my to do list is coming along nicely! i cleaned the whole apartment and did laundry and ironed clothes and changed bedsheets and towels! i passed the exam so thats cool. worked out. im gonna like, take a shower and do that drawing thing thats been in my head, then im gonna pack for the trip, make lunchies... then when thats all done i'll come back to the sleeping thing maybe but honestly its like noon maybe i should just go along w it for today and go to sleep at a normal time

#its easily my most productive 34 hours in the past 3 months #oh i gotta proofread a bunch of stuff too #ok u wanna know a special body meditation tip? recently bc ive been so into hypnosis and ocs who use it #i just go full whumpee and imagine my fav whumper doing it🥰🥰 #ONE NIGHT IT WAS LIKE ACTUALLY WILD #so if u know me u know i get the sleepy voices and the super vivid hallucination adjacent stuff #and it was soooo real that night #w a friend's oc #hi friend if u read this lol #but yeah it was awesome and i was out like a light within 2 mins #listening to my fav blorbo man say comforting things to me :) ANYWAY so yea i usually dont have any issues w it or anything #it mustve been the tea i drank a lot of it. like 5-6 cups within the last two days. mightve shocked the body a little #asks

[perigelion]

😭😭 feeling so fucking awful for the second day in a row now WHEN will this end...

#ive been nauseous and my head is spinning and i cant keep any food in my stomach #drank a cup of tea today and havent thrown up yet so thats... something #and i am in this reality for now... woke up being like who & when & where am i for a solid hour #trying to beat all the really bad thoughts away from my head but urgh #im also like... cold #even tho im wearing a sweater and it should Not be cold here ive been just feeling like that p consistently #i do Not want to google wtf is wrong with me bc that will freak me out even further but also... the fuck is wrong with me #is mixing alcohol w antidepressants really that fucking bad. #been fine on different meds before #this is just fucking awful im never drinking again #shouldve stayed home at least i could cry there lmao

[peapod20001]

I’m the type that can and will cry if think too hard <3

#random post #me tag ∠( ᐛ 」 ) |/ #I’m not an overly emotional person in the stereotypical way. but I do get in my feels when thinking about life and the experience of living #I’m like. constantly explaining things to myself cus there’s never really a time or place to talk about it #also my method of explaining things is very not coherent sometimes. so it takes me a bit to really get my point across in a comprehensible #way. I’m a big thinker. I have many thoughts and ideas a views. a daily thing of mine is noticing problems #and then fixing them in my head with thought out explanations and motives and outcomes #it’s like I’m talking to someone else. much like how I format my text posts. that’s how my inner monologue is #me talking to myself is actually me talking to someone else. someone that isn’t real #anyways it’s a daily occurrence. every day of my life is spent with thoughts similar to those breaking down a movie #lots of thoughts from adhd. compulsive thoughts from ocd. overwhelming thoughts from autism. distressing thoughts from bpd #ya. this isn’t a vent I just need to like. see the thoughts in writing so I can do smth else. like eat this muffin ive been staring at for #over an hour now <3 mmmbfbg yea muffins are hard to eat now cus I had some with mold and food mold especially is a big nono for me #spend like. five minutes examining the damn thing before I even consider taking a bite. I’m very hungry an thirsty </3 #when your mouth is so dry you can taste your own mouth 👍 I’m experiencing #nothing in particular. just experiencing. I wouldn’t have it any other way. I like having an experience and living #drank my tea and I had like. hallucinations of like an alcohol prep pad. I’ve been using those in my ear cus. tmi. had a pimple that’s #causing problems so mom suggested that. it burned! which means it worked so word. I’ve noticed lately that both me AND my family have been #using ‘word’ a lot. dad says we’ve been saying it but no we haven’t. if we had I’d have BEEN saying it. maybe we’ve used it before for a bit #but now it’s back. idk. I’ve said it in class on more than one occasion lmao I don’t look like the type to say smth like that but whatever #it’s like when I used to say bro after every sentence like 10 years ago lol. we’re a family of parrots we repeat eachother a lot #I started saying I love you out of no where and they started doing it too. we whistle at eachother from across the house. sing ear worms #together. quote funny things at every opportunity and drive the joke into the ground. everyone in this house is a different kind of mentally #I’ll and it’s the most beautiful clash of personalities because we’re all so annoying and we love eachother so much and also our #communication is shit because some ppl have hearing loss and another is a short fused child and some are quick to interrupt and some dont #get a word in and some just can’t explain and some can’t understand. we get there eventually at some point. we don’t get the full grasp of #how much we love eachother yet. but we’re gettin there. anyways this went into several different directions but they’re all good ones #I think. if you read all this good on you! this is my brain 24/7/365 haha ok love you

[celeste-tyrrell]

ADHD stimulants include: Adderall, Vyvanse, Ritalin, Concerta, and Jornay PM

ADHD non-stimulants include: Strattera, Qelbree, and Intuniv

"other meds" include: non-ADHD stimulants that are meant to treat other conditions, depressants, antidepressants, and any self-medicated drugs like meth, cocaine, and alcohol

other clarification:

please note that "affects me more" just means that the side effects are more intense when medicated than when not medicated. this could mean that you become more energetic/stressed/frantic than you usually get when drinking caffeine, but it could also mean that you get more tired/fatigued/lathargic than you usually get when drinking caffeine.

in the same vein, "affects me less" just means that the side effects are less intense when medicated than when not medicated. so if you become super stressed after drinking caffeine when off your meds, consuming caffeine while on your meds might make you get just a little anxious (and likewise with fatigue).

#self diagnosis and self medication are absolutely valid and welcome here #ADHD #actuallyadhd #actually adhd #poll #polls #other clarification was put under a readmore for the sake of not putting an overwhelming amount of text in the main body of the post #celeste talks #I realized today that my reaction to caffeine might be significantly different on days when I take adderall vs days when I don't #usually it makes me incredibly stressed and frantic regardless of sleep. actual workload. exercise. etc #and it usually only takes a few sips of caffeinated black tea (has less than half the amount of caffeine in a cup of coffee) to go from hal #asleep to wide awake #and it only takes a couple minutes to take effect #whereas today I drank a whole cup of caffeinated black tea and it took a good 30 minutes for anything to happen #which could be a coincidence. but also it's a large enough difference that it's suspicious #on top of me not having experimented with this much at all yet #so I'm really curious if anyone else with adhd who's also medicated has any similar experiences #neurodivergent #audhd #nd #caffeine #coffee

[a-silent-observer]

I am being prescribed psychiatric medicine so potent the viruses just slide off of me

#For real got something maybe flu maybe covid at a friendly gathering several days ago #Usually any virus is hell on earth with all the symptoms but this time I only have sore throat and fatigue and that's it #No actually I had muscle pain for a day but now it's gone #Literally drank a cup of tea and I'm fine #I am beginning to suspect that all the hell involved previously was just a severe allergic reaction. Which my medicine hinders #According to some research ocd is an allergy in the brain #Which I my case might be true bc all of my closest relatives each have a couple of allergy disorders

[dazoru]

Ironically I should not be drinking the amount of tea I've drank today, the caffeine cannot be good for me in this state lmfao

#believe it or not I was a tea addict years before he even came out lol #I finish a cup and immediately make another #I drink like three cups an hour and it needs to be very hot if it cools down too much I need to make another #I... I don't actually know how much I've drank today #but I do know I'm nervous af lol #He has his tea with two sugars which is a CRIME imo I don't have any sugars but I can forgive him ❤️

[stinkrascal]

everything i do i do it for her

#run dont walk to the store and get this. its so fucking good #i just made some and my taste buds are doing a dance #usually i put so much sugar in my tea because i love sweet stuff but this doesnt even need sugar its so good by itself #i forgot this has caffeine in it and its almost 10pm so this will be a fun night #its not a lot of caffeine so its ok. my body can handle so much caffeine #i drank two panera bread lemonade's in under an hour so i can pretty much handle any drug now

[longroadstonowhere]

been thinking about the small but incredibly important difference between ‘there’s no one i’d rather be than myself’ and ‘i like who i am’

#like honestly.... i dunno if ruby actually /likes/ herself any more than she did when she drank the tea #but she was given the choice to be anyone and she chose herself

[ricesoupremacy]

ruined the second picture by using a source of light because it was getting dark and i started drinking tea when it was not so dark and that means i took some time to finish it because hahahahha i did not like it as much as i thought i would but it wasn't as bad as i thought it would be and so i don't dislike it which means tea is neutral territory now instead of hostile territory please don't hate me

after careful consideration i have decided to not hate you. you're too great for that.

#why didn't you like it :(( #i bbet if i made you tea #you'd love it #but hey at least tell me you dramatically stared out of the window while you drank it #that or you pretended you were one of those uncles present at any roadside tea stall in india #is it weird i do that #also why is the tags format so weird now eugh #ok i kinda like it tho

[posts-from-employee-427]

STanley, do you like tea, maybe coffee, if so what kind?

I love tea so much hold on I have to talk about it in the tags or this is going to be a block of text

#tag readers be warned #okokok so #i guess i never answered that quora question properly but one of the things i would always look at was discussions on the best tea brand #because i was always looking for new ones to try. i used to drink tea pretty much every day just because i meeded it to stay awake #and go to sleep to. i needed something to be productive as well and i hate the taste of coffee so the solutions is tea. i drank different #flavors depending on what i was trying to accomplish and idk if it was placebo or what but it worked and i was a lot more productive at #my job and thats actually how i got a nice desk behind a door and god tea was just such a comfort item is there literally anything better. #i would drink a mint chamomile bed to fight off insomnia and earl grey at work and theyre was this really good but a bit pricey #dark chearry tea that id get when i had the extra money because omg it was so good. but honestly im not picky ill take any flavor #and im of the opinion that milk or creamer in tea is completely normal and fine and honey over sugar but sugar is fine and #good god #im rambling about tea #uh anyways yeah tea is pretty on i guess. #like if i had to choose one.

[lovevalley45]

so i had an idea for a lil "taking care of the other when sick" fic for behrastra n i don't know if i'll finish it

however i threw in a line about spooner n i was like. oh no i've nailed the exact vibe i write her with: "She preferred to double down with medicinal teas from her mother Gloria and DayQuil from the pharmacy down the street then going on with her day [rather than let herself get nursed back to health.]"

#alli says shit #any time i'm like 'okay semi-witchy/magical spooner time' #i IMMEDIATELY have to balance that out by remembering she is a texan with her own property #who probably gets caffeine pills from buc-ees #however i also believe the inverse of this is true where she would take medicinal teas and nyquil to 'sleep it off' #except it's like 10 am n she just sleeps thru the day like. i am recovering #also. she is not taking them separately. she is pouring the quil into the tea #n the first time she did this astra watched with the most disgusted face as she drank it in like #one gulp #like big 'chugging green juice with alien cocoon blended into it' energy #except worse bc it's a hot beverage

[roaring-eeveen-louder]

They don’t have Tapu Cocoa here :[

#I make some when I feel bleh but they donthave any #and the tea I drank in Hisui isn’t.here. obviously. #I dont know what to do #Pokémon #unreality #-Mars

[wickedhawtwexler]

actually all the anti-stimulant-medication ppl are so right, adderall IS evil because it won't let me drink multiple iced coffees >:(

#(this is sarcastic in case that was not obvious) #i drank my morning coffee and now i'm at panera & halfway through a SMALL iced coffee and my body is like ''um babe what are you doing'' #before i was on adhd meds i literally drank 4-6 cups of coffee a day minimum y'all #and i can think of maybe three or four times where i actually drank Too Much Caffeine & got the fast heartbeat and shakiness etc. #but NOW y'all??? some days i can literally only have one coffee. i'll start my second and get shaky after like 2 sips #that first month i couldn't drink ANY coffee. i could have one caffeinated tea MAYBE if the stars aligned #it's so sad. i lowkey miss my caffeine dependence :( and decaf coffee is gross i'm sorry it tastes sooo bad #m.txt

[goblinbugthing]

PH FUCK I HAVENT EATEN SINCE THUS MORNING

#text #buggie’s rambles #I FUCKEN FORGOR 💀 #TOO BUSY BEING UPSET OVER A MINOR INCONVENIENCE #and also being literally not interested in any available foods except ice cream which i am too physically weak to get myself #and gummy bears which are on top of the fridge #where i cannot reach them. because i am 5’ even. and they were put there by my 6’3 dad. where i couldnt reach them. #and i ate all the microwaveables i like #popcorn is an option but teeth hurt. so easily. and the kernels get stuck in the Gaps and are agonising #anyway i also havent drank anything in a while #crystal lite pitcher is empty and i dont wanna make coffee or chug milk for the rest of the day until my dad gets off work #and water tastes like water (i do not like it) and there are no available cups #except my water bottle (not fully clean and has some juice still left in it that the straw doesnt reach) #and my mug (unclean and only used to hold dairy drinks/tea) #so im like. fuckin stuck

[sleevebuscemii]

#lets go girls #i drank four cups of the best fucking tea ive ever had in my goddamn life and im a lil wired as a strictly no-caffeine girlie #also im tryna sleep IN tomorrow #if i wake up any earlier than noon imma be mad #but also ive been sleeping like shit this whole week so i should probably sleep early And sleep in to really make up for it #idk #yall pick #polls #m

[meanderfall]

I've been suffering from a sore throat for DAYS, and I only just now remembered that I have ice cream and that would probably help

#do you have any idea how much tea i drank. #two mugs only actually #but i usually drink none SO #my throat would stick every time i swallowed and now with ice cream it stopped #peace and love on planet earth