🌸Lotus Notes🌸

Jacqueline || 24 || INFJ || 5th year medical student || philosophy || light academia || Netherlands

[uglygirlstatus]

i am extremely well-adjusted and mentally healthy as long as nothing goes wrong ever at all even a little bit

[dagwolf]

Laziness Does Not Exist

Psychological research is clear: when people procrastinate, there's usually a good reason

good read for teachers.

[quoms]

[…] When a person fails to begin a project that they care about, it’s typically due to either a) anxiety about their attempts not being “good enough” or b) confusion about what the first steps of the task are. Not laziness. In fact, procrastination is more likely when the task is meaningful and the individual cares about doing it well.

[ahziz-imsorry]

I’ve been yelling this for years

[demonprincex]

Hi yall, author of the piece here. Medium instituted a pay wall so here is a link to access it for free:

Laziness Does Not Exist

But unseen barriers do

[earth-to-lilah]

many times, there's no need to seek answers in things like tarot, the approval/disapproval of someone, following trends, a nod telling you you're "doing it right". go with your gut, go where your nervous system feels safe. be honest with yourself. trust.

[imanes]

“some things aren’t meant to last” ok but consider this: I love permanence and consistency

[filmnoirsbian]

I do think the majority of us should strangle the shame that lives inside of us like wringing water from the rag until we are soft and dry and weightless

[protestantcrona]

I can see why someone would worship a tree. Not every tree but some of them tempt me to idolatry. Like... Anyone else get this

[blorb0]

ombú trees......... for your consideration

[mamoru]

Your Body Position Impacts How Quickly Pills Kick In, New Study Shows

Laying on your left-hand side may make for slower pill absorption.

oh wow! hey if you take pills check this out. new medicine taking meta just dropped.

according to these models, out of the 4 tested postures, the best position to digest pills is laying on your right side. standing upright has a similar time to laying in your back at twice as much as laying on the right side, and laying on the left side is the slowest by far.

laying on right side: pill dissolves in around 10 minutes.

standing: pill dissolves in 23 minutes. laying on the back has a similar time.

laying on left side: pill dissolves in up to 100 minutes.

https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0096877

definitely worth a lot more research.

if you want your medicine to kick in fast, try laying on your right side! if you want your medicine to kick in slower, try laying on your left side.

[sweaterkittensahoy]

This makes sense! I learned from a doc that if you have gas pain or nausea, you turn on your left side to make it easier for your stomach to send stuff through. The goal in turning left is to NOT absorb, but to release.

Turning on your right can make nausea/gas pain worse because it has to fight gravity to exit your stomach/body. So, yeah, lying on your right would make things absorb faster because it's going into the stomach lining, which is the point.

[archouai]

Righty-tighty, lefty-loosey

[effervesece]

blog goals: making someone feel a little less sad

[frachella]

maison_hefner

[catp0rn]

[funnytwittertweets]

[pidoop]

me when I have a medium day: let’s spice it up with a little treat

[sensiblereblogifposts]

Reblog if you deserve a little treat

[speakandsmile-deactivated202311]

we are literally on this earth to have fun and love each other how sweet is that

[themoonluvr-deactivated20241223]

life is not success. life is not grades or achievements. life is refreshing naps, drinking your favourite drink, movie night, hugging your best friend, laying on grass, funny videos, seeing your plant bloom, the days getting longer, candles, finding a piece of clothing that’s just so you, complimenting people, personal handshakes, that one song, cleansing showers, smelling flowers, cute book or coffee shops, cute prints, finishing a notebook. this is truly what life is. the smallest things.

[everybidenjusthavegoodtime]

i romantically stand outside your window and hold up my iPhone to blast our song. a 30 second ad plays first

[raccooninapartyhat]

literally every sleep advice pamphlet and website: don’t do things before bedtime! no reading! no video games! don’t watch tv! nothing stimulating at all within two hours of going to bed! :)

me, an adhd: you fools. you buffoons. i can’t even manage one minute without stimulation. i will die before following this advice and that is a threat

[wetwareproblem]

My go-to-sleep routine involves ramping down with less stimulating input for a couple hours, but having some form of media until I literally can’t keep my eyes open.

Of course, my sleep schedule is “surprise me,” so this may not be the best advice.

[rosa-buachaille]

If you’re someone who experiences an absence of stimulation as [negative] stimulation, it makes sense that that advice wouldn’t work for you. 

(I don’t know whether it’s that way with ADHD, but it can be with autism, so I’m thinking it’s likely.)

Health advice that excludes disabled people is a constant irritation.  I saw an article once about research supposedly finding that spending much time sitting down shortens your life, and someone who needed a wheelchair full-time commented underneath “Well, that’s me fucked, then”.  Sums it up.

[ms-demeanor]

Heyyyyyyyy you want a piece of life-changing advice from your local ADHD gremlin?

Hang out in bed.

I kept hearing that you should only be in your bed for sleep and that all your other activities - like reading, internetsing, talking on the phone, playing games, etc. - should be done somewhere other than the bed so that you could associate the bed with sleep.

You know how I’ve averaged three to five hours of sleep a night for about seventeen years? (you probably didn’t know; let me tell you IT SUCKED) I’m approaching a MUCH healthier average of five to seven hours through the simple expedient of hanging out in bed around bed time.

You know why?

Because I would get sleepy out in my not-bed but I couldn’t get my executive function to cooperate with getting me into bed.

I’d sit in my chair and hang out on tumblr or have a book in my hand and around 3 am I’d be fighting to keep my eyes open but I wouldn’t get the motivation to get out of my chair and go to bed until around 4.

Now I start hanging out in my bed at about midnight and when I get tired at one or two I can just take off my glasses and go to sleep. There are still hyperfocus incidents - I’ve gotten sucked into a book until 6 once or twice since I started doing this, but that’s once or twice in four months instead of going to bed at 5am every night.

So yeah, FUCK sleep hygeine if it’s actually preventing you from getting to sleep. There is no way the blue light from my phone could be worse for sleep than the ADHD “I’ll get up and go to bed in a minute” mode was for me.

[hedwig-dordt]

this is the bedtime version of “running the dishwasher twice”

[flipocrite]

pay the ADHD tax upfront; embrace the second-best solution rather than the perfect one you’re half as likely to do or use

[funnytwittertweets]

[weirdlooksgoodonyou]

so no one is going to talk about the time dostoyevsky said “and i seem to have such strength in me now, that i think i could stand anything, any suffering, only to be able to say and to repeat to myself every moment, ‘i exist.’ in thousands of agonies- i exist. i’m tormented on the rack- but i exist! though i sit alone in a pillar- i exist! i see the sun, and if i don’t see the sun, i know it’s there. and there’s a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there.” because hOly fuckkkk