Thread 33255968

Why do my cognitive abilities fluctuate throughout the day? Most of the time I feel like shit, it’s as if I got smashed in the head with a brick. Then there’s about 30 minutes randomly in the day that I’m highly functional, thoughts and intuitions come to me effortlessly. I have no health problems, eat decent, exercise and sleep well. My two ideas are autism/adhd or dpdr dissocation. Having access to this state 24/7 would make my life extraordinarily easier. Am I just fucked?

>>33255968 (OP)
> sugar
> smartphone notification bullshit
If you get a notification about some whore you knew in high school, it might randomly effect you the next day, even if you are not consciously aware of it
humans weren't born for this smartphone bullshit

>>33255968 (OP)
Shit like meditation/mindfulness, working out, sleeping well, having a balanced diet actually work. You should try it some time

>>33255968 (OP)
Off the top of my head (I'm no doctor): It could be either physiological or a stuck mental state. For physiology, I would use a (cheap) blood glucose meter before and after meals and plot where your levels are relative to the normal range. For stuck mental state I would practice mental flexibility, beginning with noticing when someone different is "at the steering wheel."

As I have noted previously, I found the brain model outlined in "Whole Brain Living" to be useful, in informing me of what is going on when my mental state is noticeably different from other times. (picrel). Mental models are not perfect, of course, they're provisional, only as useful as their predictive power.