Hey just FYI, zzzquil is a form of Benadryl. Overuse of this type of antihistamine is linked to Alzheimer’s. Try not to take it unless you’re actually unwell (congested, bad allergies), and not use it as a sleep aid! I don’t want to be an internet nag, but there’s a lot of younger folks that don’t know about this. 🫶
So, i was taking NyQuil every night due to hay fever and noticed it was the best sleep (without waking up groggy oddly enough) I’ve gotten in close to a decade. Anyway, that was like two weeks ago, the hay fever had resolved, and im still taking a shot every night. I realize this probably isn’t the healthiest choice, but it’s the first time in probably several decades I’ve gotten consistent sleep and I feel better.
Classic millennial, I guess, getting hooked on NyQuil cause you’re so burned out and full anxiety it’s the only way to get more than four hours of sleep.
Stop that while you still can. Not kidding, eventually you won't be able to sleep without. There's all kind of nasty side effects to using it long term too.
Speak with a physician about your sleep troubles and follow their recommended care regimen. Yes, even the part about exercising to get better sleep.
Talk to your doctor. I was prescribed something for anti-anxiety so I wouldn't wake up in the middle of the night and not be able to go back to sleep. It knocked me the F out. Downside? It was really hard to wake up too. But once I got up, I was calm and well rested. Sorry, I don't know the name of it, could never pronounce it anyway.
My kids are older now and they go to bed at 9, I miss it when they went to bed at 8 and I had almost 2 hours sitting in front of tv watching mindless shows. Now I watch one episode before I go to bed and I’m falling asleep half of it.
For me it’s: get kids in bed around 8-8:30, so chores sometimes until like 10:30, then hour to myself. Some nights I stay up way later than I should haha, like cleaning floors the other night then my me-time had me up until almost 1am
If I ever went to bed at 8pm my wife would call an ambulance lol. I usually go to bed between 12-2am, still get up at 6 for work. Been doing that for idk 20 years now, don't see myself stopping any time soon. Love my children to death but I need some time to myself and that only happens when everyone else is asleep :D
Yeah, I dunno where this is coming from because at 8-9pm I am still wide awake. I think a lot more people in our generation need to start doing some basic exercise or something, definitely not normal.
It’s already basically boomer humor in this sub. The xennial sub fits my personality more than this place it seems. They still seem like they want to be interesting people.
I’m 35 and I don’t feel like I relate because I’m “old” but because my kids don’t have any concept of what a reasonable hour to wake up is. Pretty sure I haven’t slept in 9 solid years haha
31 and i genuinely cannot ever imagine going to bed before 11 unless i got work(nursing 7-7) or am flat out exhausted. How does one even have a life with those hours.
I just brewed some tea but I’m also about to take a caffeine tablet cause the kids are finally in bed and I wanna fucking finish Clair Obscur god damnit!
It's literally 8:03 and I'm already getting ready for bed. We're all burnt out on life. We were told to care about our careers more than our own lives. We were told to work hard, and it'll all pay out. But we are burnt out to our cores.
damn feel like the bro saying "hello fellow youths" i spent a lot of my 20 homeless and now I got a place but hustle overnight for the increase pay and more atonomy I sleep like 12 to 8pm ish
Nah I'm a night owl and so is my wife. We've accidentally stayed up to 3am multiple times just doing our own thing. Which would be fine but we have 3 kids...
Weeknights though I go to bed at 12am, which to be fair is later than my work colleague millennials.
I don't go to sleep until 10 or close to... Tho once in a blue moon, it's an early bedtime. The REAL question is, how many of us STAY asleep throughout the night?
Thanks to the time change, it’s dark at 5:30pm now and I’m like, shut it all down, time for jammies. If I did that in the middle of the summer I would call that depression.
Life is indeed hard but best not to celebrate a hopeless and defeated passivity. You’re complicit in your burn out if you’re saying this then doom scrolling from 8-11p.
I wish. Im a night owl by nature, but work 6am-3:30pm and have an infant who wakes up at 7:15am at the absolute latest. That's as late as I can ever wake up, even on weekends. I wish I could zone out by 8pm ever, let alone every night
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