I made it a week then events with Trump trying to cut medicaid sent me into a doom spiral and I relapsed. So I’m looking to try and beat a week this time. I really need to figure out how to manage my emotions when I hit a bump in the road, like the medicare thing, without quickly regressing backwards.

So far the worst thing about quitting vaping is the really vivid dreams as my brain adjusts. According to google these can last for almost two months and that makes me depressed. Sleep is one of the few joys I have in my life and I like to do it, so having it get interrupted because my brain is adjusting to being chemical free sucks.

  • TheVelvetGentleman [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I was thinking about the need to moderate my reactions to events, not in a denialist way, but in a way that allows me to not be a cortisol doll for bourgeois actors.

    I like to imagine these things to be akin to a hurricane. I can’t do anything to stop them (yet) so there’s no sense in getting myself worked up. It doesn’t help me. But that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t prepare for the worst.