sudden day of clarity what can it be?

Postby mute » Sat Feb 19, 2022 5:33 am

normally my day to day routine is me being frustrated with always feeling burned out because after trying and failing so many times at so many things i always feel like my battery is dead
i have no willpower left to force myself to do any kind of diet or excersise or sometimes even do basic chores until i have to
just constantly feel mentally exhausted.

then this happpens few times a year and it lasts about a day or sometimes few days or maybe a week at most and fades away
and i end up trying to figure out what caused it and why i even have it

so what happens is i would snap into being a comlpetely normal fully functioning human being
i feel normal
i think normal
i interact with people like i have great people skills
i can plan
i can eat properly and have no cravings for crappy food
i go to gym and work out and not drag myself there

pretty much i switch to being a perfectly normal fully functioning person and then it fades away and im left with bunch of memories of what i could be and no answers to why or how it happens
it happens consistently and randomly throughout the year
it happened about a week ago

i woke up and had to chose between going back to sleep or getting up and being productive.
normally that choice alone would drive me crazy and i would end up spending another hour fighting myself frozen by indecision and get frustrated
but i had no problem making the better choice and didnt feel any resistance to making it like usual
and the rest of the day was one of those good days
next day i was back to normal

so i literally described the movie limitless when he woke up next day off nzt it happens to me in real life..
i dont use drugs btw or drink or smoke
i drink coffee that is by my own choice the one bad habit i use to replace few others that were more damaging
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Postby Candid » Sun Feb 20, 2022 8:17 am

Maybe that's the trouble. I'm sure we've discussed caffeine toxicity before now, but here it is again: https://www.goodtherapy.com.au/flex/can ... alth/565/1

I have the same problem and I do sympathise.
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Postby mute » Mon Feb 28, 2022 9:04 am

no
Coffee actually has no effect on this
i stop craving coffee on those days
But otherwise coffee is my anchor to help me stay balanced
Its my uninterrupted time i can forget about everyday crap


What i did find last week is i am a slow adapter
I hold on to things too long
beliefs people relationships stuff etc
I think my inability to adapt is possibly the cause of all my problems
Maybe childhood trauma i donno
But how the hell can i even remember what could have possibly caused this to begin with.
Those short times im a literally different person
I have none of those problems for a day
And then i have all of them back
Its like " heres a sample of what you could be"
Now lets go back to the cheaper version of you...
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