How long are you doing this? Long enough to believe the improvements are permanent? (As opposed to: every new stuff seems great at the beginning, and then things return to average.) Maybe you could share the specific advice that worked, in an article.
To be honest, I started doing this two or three days ago. I’m aware of the possibility of developing tolerance to it, but I couldn’t possibly have consumed enough of it so far to start noticing that already. I’ll report back in a month or so, but hopefully in the meantime I should be creating habits out of the productive stuff I (finally) feel like doing and transfer some of the impetus to the habituation—I’m not sure I can quite cure my motivation problem by way of these supplements, although it would be nice not to have to take them every day for the rest of my life!
I don’t think it’s just placebo, since I am able to feel when the effect wears off… quite conspicuously. I’d be back to feeling like lying in bed all day long, and if anything had been upsetting me shortly beforehand, all the physical sensations of sadness would resurface as if they had been there all along and were just waiting to manifest.
How long are you doing this? Long enough to believe the improvements are permanent? (As opposed to: every new stuff seems great at the beginning, and then things return to average.) Maybe you could share the specific advice that worked, in an article.
To be honest, I started doing this two or three days ago. I’m aware of the possibility of developing tolerance to it, but I couldn’t possibly have consumed enough of it so far to start noticing that already. I’ll report back in a month or so, but hopefully in the meantime I should be creating habits out of the productive stuff I (finally) feel like doing and transfer some of the impetus to the habituation—I’m not sure I can quite cure my motivation problem by way of these supplements, although it would be nice not to have to take them every day for the rest of my life!
I don’t think it’s just placebo, since I am able to feel when the effect wears off… quite conspicuously. I’d be back to feeling like lying in bed all day long, and if anything had been upsetting me shortly beforehand, all the physical sensations of sadness would resurface as if they had been there all along and were just waiting to manifest.
If it is so recent you should consider the possibility that the effect is placebo-like—esp. as you claim your behavior didn’t change.
I’d be interested to see you report back on this habit in next month’s diary entry, since that will give you a better sense a sustained effects.