Just wish someone could see the pain and burden I carry and realize I need a break or be told I’m seen without me having to say it but that’s unrealistic right lol
Yes nigga. This gotta be hella embarrassing. I wouldn’t even take lil bro to a barber anymore. Shave that nigga bald at home!!! Nigga you either rockin the fro like Kobe or going bald like Kobe💯💯
This has a clinical name. Revenge bedtime procrastination. And the ADHD version runs on a completely different mechanism than the neurotypical one.
A neurotypical person stays up late because they want more leisure time. The ADHD brain stays up because it spent every drop of dopamine it had on executive function during the day. Sitting in meetings, managing transitions, filtering impulses, remembering the thing you were supposed to remember. That burns through dopamine the way sprinting burns through glycogen. By 10pm the tank is empty.
But here's where it gets counterintuitive. The exhaustion is physical. The dopamine deficit is neurological. Those are two separate systems. Your muscles want sleep. Your prefrontal cortex is starving for the stimulation it was denied all day because it spent 14 hours on task-switching and impulse control instead of anything that actually felt rewarding.
The phone at midnight is the brain trying to collect what it's owed. Low-effort, high-stimulation content. Scrolling, short videos, rabbit holes. The exact profile of activity that delivers dopamine without requiring the executive function you already depleted.
The sleep researchers call this a "self-regulation failure." It's closer to a debt collection. You borrowed against your own reward system to function all day. The bill comes due at midnight. And the brain will not let you sleep until it gets paid.
@thrluv You know art sculptures like this from the Greek and all that were the epitome of beauty. The sculptures don’t show bone woman. They are all curvy woman. That was the definition of beauty back then and I believe it’s still the epitome of it.
Torn between wanting love and just never going for it again. Just want love to be soft and kind and understanding. I want love the way the Lord intends for us to give and receive it. Man I want it so badly
This post got 136k+ Likes in under 24 hours. Younger Americans say they have no future
“They tell us to stop eating out and rents $2,000 a month. Oh, save for retirement, and yet you can barely save for next week. Go buy a house, every house is half a million dollars”
“I'm not asking for a handout, man. We're asking for a freaking fair shot at life. Our parents did not work harder than we work right now. They were simply just given a better chance. Their wages covered their lives, their bills, their hobbies, their passions. Our wages barely cover our freaking bills for the month, dude.
No amount of budgeting can ever fix a system designed to keep us down. We're doing the best that we can. And yet it feels like the outcome has already been decided.”
@ElonMuskAOC Please me it’s such a long shot. But I’ll take any car I can get. My car isn’t drivable. I don’t have the money to fix it and I’m not sure how imma get to work.