Mine is coffee. As of today, my coffee drinking days are over. I’ve had been drinking coffee for what feels like 14 some odd years. I used to have, on average, 2 ~ 4 mugs and on some days where I just pushed myself, 6 mugs. I would always have my coffee coupled with powdered creamer because I can never drink coffee straight.
However and for the past 4 years now, I’ve been noticing some health issues with it both mentally and physically. Mentally, I’ve noticed my anxiety is driven up the wall after having had coffee. Physically, I could not stop going to the bathroom to piss, for coffee accelerates your need to go to the bathroom since it is also a laxative.
And also in turn, kept interrupting my naps and times where I had a nice string of hours to sleep to. A few weeks back, I had thought that it was maybe the usual caffeine-based coffee grounds that was causing it. So I discarded them. I went to Decaf because I felt I wasn’t just ready to discard coffee entirely. But since the same stuff is happening again with even Decaf, even when trying to be more moderate about my intake, I’ve officially tapped out.
I’m going to miss it, all the times where when I was in a place of solitude and a nice warm mug of joe added to the feeling, helped make things feel right. And all the times when coffee actually did help me, but I guess I just over-indulged and spoiled badly what was.
I gave up coffee recently too, stopped about halfway through March and I don’t really miss it at all. It was playing havoc with my digestion and energy levels.
I replaced the ritual with making cups of tea which has really helped, granted it did take me a little while to fully engage with it like I did coffee but it’s taken away missing the “ceremony” for me.
My skins cleared up, my bowels are regular again for the first time in what feels like forever and I’m sleeping so much better too. I hope it goes much the same for you pal!
Weed. Had to quit for an extended family holiday. I’ve had t-breaks like that a dozen times or so over the past 20 years, but was otherwise smoking daily. When I got home last September, I smoked a couple of bowls I had left behind and then just… stopped.
I don’t really have much to say about it. I don’t feel significantly clearer-headed or motivated. No profound physiological impact. Same as when I took breaks from it, had super weird and vivid dreams for a short while after stopping.
I’ll partake when I’m offered a doobie at a party, but I probably won’t go back to my old habits.
I think the reason I stopped is because I started taking (non-stimulant) ADHD meds a couple years back and the increase in dopamine made me just not feel like it anymore.
Masking; I dropped my facade in October and have been working on finding my true self.
EDIT: Multiple people asked me to clarify that OC may be speaking to neurodivergent/autistic masking rather than COVID masking.
Wearing a respirator (not a cloth/surgical mask) in public is my true self. The self who takes airborne diseases, my health, and more importantly the health of others seriously. The self who knows that COVID-19 & long COVID aren’t over and that measles is back thanks to anti-vaxxers and prohibitively expensive healthcare. The one who still follows Violet Blue’s weekly updates.
I’m pretty sure they weren’t talking about masks in the medical sense, so this is honestly a really inappropriate response.
Most likely OC is talking about surgical/medical masks, which are inadequate for COVID-19, though better than nothing.
- https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/commentary-wear-respirator-not-cloth-or-surgical-mask-protect-against-respiratory-viruses
- https://peoplescdc.org/2023/11/01/peoples-cdc-public-comment-on-hicpac/
- https://peoplescdc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Layers-of-Protection.pdf
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8552225/
Dude, get the hell out of here. Stop turning everything political.
Everything is political. Public health and neurodiversity certainly are.
Everything’s is political but not everything people say is intended to stir up a political debate, and honestly the internet is one of the worst places to actually have a political debate.
Me when gravity is political
LAW of gravity? If it’s not a law in the Constitution, I don’t respect it.
Floats away
No, they most likely aren’t. Since they’re explicitly talking about “dropping their facade” and “finding their true self”, they’re most likely talking about autistic masking - you know, the kind of masking where you put on a facade and not behave like your true self.
At best your comments are unrelated rants, at worst you’re coming off like a real jerk right now.
Oh, maybe, but you’d be surprised how many people I’ve heard speak in exactly the same terms w/r/t COVID masking.
Sure, but OC didn’t give any indication that’s the case. They shared something very personal and made themselves vulnerable. You chose to interpret it as a political message (and if I may say, you interpreted it deliberately in a really unlikely way - especially this long after the pandemic, and consequently wearing masks, have been out of the publics mind) and responded in a very passive-aggressive way, instead of just asking. That’s a really shitty thing to do.
If it had occurred to me that that’s what they might be talking about, I would have asked or said nothing. I don’t know why you’re assuming bath faith.
Drinking soda. I drank it pretty much to the exclusion of all else for decades, it helped ruin my teeth and probably contributed to my developing diabetes at age 50. How it happened was kinda weird, one day I just felt like drinking something else, got some sweet tea at a restaurant or something, and it tasted great without being syrupy or too sweet and just perfectly hit the spot. That day I bought a tea maker and by the end of the week I poured out what was left of my soda stash and never looked back. Once in a great while I’ll have a craving for Barq’s root beer or something, but it’s all soooo gassy and syrupy.
Also quit smoking 2 years ago.
When I was young and worked in a supermarket, I’d buy a 1.5l coke at the beginning of my shift, I’d finish it before I went home.
4 days a week, for years.
Stopped around 20 year ago, I still have it occasionally, but it is like a glass or two a month.
Yeah same, I’ll buy like a 6-pack of small bottles of Barq’s like once every few months maybe, and drink it over the course of a week or so, or I’ll have a coke with a meal at a restaurant or something.
Nowadays, I make a gallon of tea every couple days, I have a 40oz water bottle that I drink ~1.5-2.5 of a day.
