I'm curious if said amount of blue light in an otherwise dark room might increase its collective efficacy, though. 🧏🏼‍♂️

The blue light thing was likely invented or overblown by social media firms so people would keep using their phones in bed.

Reality is there's not enough blue light in a screen to wake up your brain, it's the content on the screen that's keeping you awake, not the light.

The cognitive stimulation effect and dopamine cycle is what'll mess with your sleep

A mix of a few brown noise channels is like hypnosis, NGL.

Want to add: keep your bedroom cool, you’ll sleep much better.

Also, many people sleep better with some kind of noise on (white, brown, pink, whatever).

Snakes

Do not disturb the gnome of the pond

It's the accessories

Ah, one of the Foggy Swamp tribe!

Russian uncle iroh

this comment is the best understanding of the concepts thus far

Living his best frog life

Leeches slowly removing unwanted humors...

And that means you don't think he is beautiful. Wow. Glad you felt the need to share that.

Best not make jokes in a mental health community that will likely be interpreted as fat shaming (love Monty Python though!)

After you're done, try My Time at Portia 😉

That man is one wafer thin mint away from exploding.

Beautiful man.

Yeah maybe I did get kissed by a princess turning me back into a Prince, but I'm not giving up my frog lifestyle. Fuck your politics, I'll take my pond.

Absolutely thanks for getting the ball rolling, I thought I was adhd for a long time but couldn’t get diagnosed, Pavlovian makes the most sense. I had it as a kid cause that’s all we had to drink kinda. Definitly helps me fall asleep though. Strange.

Most likely, but I usually have a herbal tea too to avoid the caffeine in black tea. But I suppose all tea could be considered a stimulant. I had one psychiatrist believe adhd isn’t overly present but ocpd is.

And waitaminit arnt all brains wired that way? Lol

So one of the things that's super relevant to the self-soothe skill is pavlovian / classical conditioning. Basically your body gets used to drinking tea when you're calm, so if you occasionally drink it when you're not calm your body will be like "wait we're doing the thing we do when we're calm though? I'm probably supposed to be calm then."

It could also have an ingredient that's mildly sedating or if you have ADHD it's caffeinated sometimes it can help you focus, which can reduce agitation. Some people will even say caffeine helps them sleep and while it can help you focus on falling asleep it will still reduce overall sleep quality (there's other, better ADHD meds that can be used around bedtime for that reason).

So there are other reasons it might be helping you, but classical pavlovian conditioning is a common mechanism and a lot of behavioral therapies include teaching on how to exploit for your own benefit. I'm super excited to talk about this because spreading info on these specific sort of topics is exactly why I made this community!

Is your brain wired in such a way that it appreciates stimulants?

Why does tea have a calming effect. I have rediscovered it in my 30s as a tradesman and it’s great, I have cold brewed tea in summer and tea at night and I like it a lot. Don’t ask me why.

Oh and here's my weeks' mood log:

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Those last couple worknights suuucked and I'm really trying to double down on my PLEASE and self-soothe this week (good timing!)