Hear me out! I have always been an avid reader, get very sucked into plots. I got diagnosed with ADHD in June. Since I’ve been medicated I’ve read $15,000 worth of library books. A little of that amount was before June, but most has been since then.
I will walk around the house making food while reading. If I am doing something that requires my hands then it’s a podcast or audiobook. This all being said a lot has been manga or graphic novels but there have been days when I read 10+ books.
Probably doesn’t sound like the worst problem but it’s something that has started to impact my life in ways I did not expect.
I haven’t done the math on “value” read, but I do 15-20 hours of audiobook (because 2x speed) on work days. It definitely can make finding new reads a challenge.
you’ve ‘spent’ as much on books in five months as i have in, like, twenty years. but i don’t always actually check books out. i often just go there (it’s only a block away), grab a book, find a sofa to sit on, and read it… cover-to-cover, then put it back where i found it.
That’s kind of cool. I’d need to combine a lot of different sources to get a number, though. I use all of Libby and Hoopla from my library, a scribd subscription (sorry, everand, I guess now), Audible, and Apple Books to handle my audiobook needs (and more for ebooks, though I have less time for that).
I have tried several different ways, and I will try the alarm again since you’ve suggested it - thank you by the way - but I often get laser focused in such a way that I don’t hear my partner speaking when he’s beside me on the couch.
Yeah there’s something about phone speakers that just never does the job for me. I dunno, the alarm sounds just lack…presence. I use a bell-based alarm clock to wake me up and when that thing goes off, you’re getting the fuck up no matter how deep a sleep you’re in. Phone alarms? I’ve slept through too many to count.
Obviously your use case is different, I’m just thinking if it can snap out a deep sleeper like me, it might help break your hyperfocus too.
I’ve been sucked into a depression fueled reading hole where I just read and lay in bed for several days. What’s weird though is after a couple of days I start to narrate my dreams and if long enough it begins to make its way into my waking life?
Reading.
Hear me out! I have always been an avid reader, get very sucked into plots. I got diagnosed with ADHD in June. Since I’ve been medicated I’ve read $15,000 worth of library books. A little of that amount was before June, but most has been since then.
I will walk around the house making food while reading. If I am doing something that requires my hands then it’s a podcast or audiobook. This all being said a lot has been manga or graphic novels but there have been days when I read 10+ books.
Probably doesn’t sound like the worst problem but it’s something that has started to impact my life in ways I did not expect.
Thanks for reading!
I haven’t done the math on “value” read, but I do 15-20 hours of audiobook (because 2x speed) on work days. It definitely can make finding new reads a challenge.
some libraries include that fun little stat on your slips.
That is exactly how I know ! Glad my library system isn’t the only one that does that.
you’ve ‘spent’ as much on books in five months as i have in, like, twenty years. but i don’t always actually check books out. i often just go there (it’s only a block away), grab a book, find a sofa to sit on, and read it… cover-to-cover, then put it back where i found it.
Mmmh that sounds lovely but I unfortunately do not have that luxury as I do not live in the same town as my library.
That’s kind of cool. I’d need to combine a lot of different sources to get a number, though. I use all of Libby and Hoopla from my library, a scribd subscription (sorry, everand, I guess now), Audible, and Apple Books to handle my audiobook needs (and more for ebooks, though I have less time for that).
You could try set a countdown on your phone to snap you out of it after an hour or so.
I have tried several different ways, and I will try the alarm again since you’ve suggested it - thank you by the way - but I often get laser focused in such a way that I don’t hear my partner speaking when he’s beside me on the couch.
That’s fair. You could try one of those classic bell-based alarm clocks, that shit will jolt even the most concentrated of people
I tried an air raid siren one and it helped a bit.
But maybe like an actual alarm clock not just an alarm on my phone… Hmmm thanks !
Yeah there’s something about phone speakers that just never does the job for me. I dunno, the alarm sounds just lack…presence. I use a bell-based alarm clock to wake me up and when that thing goes off, you’re getting the fuck up no matter how deep a sleep you’re in. Phone alarms? I’ve slept through too many to count.
Obviously your use case is different, I’m just thinking if it can snap out a deep sleeper like me, it might help break your hyperfocus too.
I’ve been sucked into a depression fueled reading hole where I just read and lay in bed for several days. What’s weird though is after a couple of days I start to narrate my dreams and if long enough it begins to make its way into my waking life?
Ever experienced anything like this?
Whoa I have not but that sounds intense. You should try blowing stuff up with your mind.
How do people like you find the time to work?
I’m on disability and cannot. But thanks.
Ah okay, I figured it had to be a situation like that. Although I was hoping you were just rich, lol.
Sorry to hear that. I hope I didn’t offend you.
You didn’t, sorry if it came off that way, it’s my innate passive aggressive Canadianness, comes out sooo hard in text form.
I’m also sometimes a dick so that doesn’t help either heh !
I think if I were rich I’d just buy books and then I wouldn’t be rich anymore.
Haha that would be an incredible consumption of books in that case 😅