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2012-09-05 10:07 5030460 Anonymous Advice / Tired Questoins (1339859268611.png 405x344 15kB)
I'm awfully tired. I got around three hours of sleep, but I think I stayed within a REM cycle, so that's good I guess. On top of this, I accidentally consumed two doses of my ADHD pills, I think it's ritalin, however I'm not 100% positive. The only negative side effect I felt throughout the day was nausea (curiously, I didn't suffer any light headedness like I thought I would. The first day I took the medicine I felt very floaty). I also took my AP English III test today, which counts as 20% of my first Semester grade. I'm wondering if I should take a 1.5-4.5 hour nap. As I said before, I am feeling very sleepy. I have homework to do and process the information I gain from it. Should I finish my work first, THEN sleep? Or nap then do my assignments? A consequence of the latter choice would be that I would probably sleep late-ish (around 11:00-12:00) at best, and late (1AM+) at worst. I certainly don't want to be tired tomorrow, so what do I do? I also want to do my homework effectively. If I napped, then went to bed at around 12 to wake up at around 6, would my brain be as well rested as me getting 9 hours of sleep? Furthermore, every time I attended my classes without an adequate amount of sleep, the entire day I felt as if I was on edge and very nervous for some reason. Is it because I took some 5 hour energy that day? Was it because I stayed up to work on a major assignment that I put off to the last minute? Was it because I had a significant test that day? I don't know. I can't really remember a school day where I got a minuscule amount of sleep and didn't feel "on edge". But I guess I wouldn't really remember that day of all considering my lack of sleep. Can someone help me out/answer my questions/try to examine my sleep deprived rambling?

0 min later 5030461 Anonymous
Another story, when Halo Reach came out, me and around 15 friends had a huge LAN Party and I ended up staying awake for 36+ hours. I vividly remember 6AM-11AMish(the next day). After 9AM I have a loose remembrance of what happened. The best way I can describe it is a blur. I remember playing Halo with my best friend (everyone left at around 10AM) and saying really dumb stuff. I remember saying something about Kangaroo Jack, and me saying a lot of words that don't make an effective sentence. But I vividly remember saying goodbye to my friend when he decided to leave, and him taunting me of my retarded speech (I remember as much about what I did then as I do now). I specifically remember shutting of the console, going to my room and collapsing into my bed. What happened and why? Why didn't I feel nervous or on edge, or stressed? And at what point (and why) did some part of my brain (the part that stores memory) get lazy and started rearranging, blurring, and deleting my memories, but decided to work once I said goodbye to my friend?

1 min later 5030465 Anonymous
drugs are bad

5 min later 5030475 Anonymous
Aren't you a little young to be on 4chan?

11 min later 5030489 Anonymous
>>5030475 Reach was released around a year or two ago if that's what you're using to asses my age.

12 min later 5030490 Anonymous (george.jpg 250x250 12kB)
>taking amphetamines/psychostimulants and call it medication >any year shiggy diggy do yourself a favour and google ritalin adderall cerebral atrophy

17 min later 5030500 Anonymous
>>5030490 I started around a week or two ago and I noticed its effects on the first day. I talked to my doctor about dependency and she said there are no "withdrawal" effects if I happen to stop taking it. She also said I won't become dependent on it. The way I see it is that this medication is simply a tool to help me achieve my potential. I can eventually take a tree down with my bare hands sure, but I can use an axe to make the task easier and end up being better.

28 min later 5030523 Anonymous
Bump with a question: Why _THIS_ school year I'm finding nearly all of my textbooks to be amazingly interesting? I dreaded reading before, is this my meds helping me out or is it because my brain is continuing to mature?

30 min later 5030527 Anonymous
>>5030523 > _THIS_ Why did you use capitalise "this" and put those lines on each side?

30 min later 5030528 Anonymous
>>5030500 http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ritalin+dependence http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ritalin+withdrawal+symptoms

34 min later 5030536 Anonymous
>>5030527 To give the word attention since this site lacks an ability to underline, bold, and italicize.

36 min later 5030542 Anonymous
>>5030528 Don't think it's ritalin than, my pill is gray.

57 min later 5030566 Anonymous
Look at the amount of effort you spent on typing that. You're in a fucking amphetamine hole. You're hyperfocusing. Do something relaxing and get some fucking sleep when you can. Stop abusing stimulants.

1 hours later 5030570 Anonymous
>>5030536 Are you implying we can't \mathit{emphasize} words at all?

1 hours later 5030575 Anonymous
>>5030536 >>5030570 Would you like some \mathbf{boldface} text?

1 hours later 5030587 Anonymous
>>5030575 >>5030570 Is this a /sci/ exclusive feature? Are you a wizard? Is this a new feature? >>5030566 I guess. I was acting a similar way on my first day of taking the medication. I didn't mean to take more than my intended dose. Anyway I guess I'll just do my work now and sleep early.

2 hours later 5030680 Anonymous
In his book titled ; Damn Good Advice; George Lois explicitly states that he lives by having only three hours of sleep daily.

5 hours later 5031199 Anonymous
>>5030680 That's wrong, impossible, and retarded. If he's right, we'd all be doing that, imagine the things we could do if our body and mind only needed three hours to recover.

6 hours later 5031269 Anonymous
>Enough sleep >Good grades >Social life Pick 2. I think the choice is obvious. It's arranged by order of importance if you were feeling confused.

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