How can I break an ingrained habit that is hurting my health?
Question:
I will skip eating to stay on the Internet and awake. Mostly I want to stay up and the computer is probablly what allows me to stay awake(once in awhile it falls off my lap onto the floor or on my head!)
I haven't eaten anything most of the day except junk food. Now I cannot get off this computer to eat and go to bed. Last night I was up to four AM and had to get up at 9 AM.
I can now get up fairly easily, but some days after only 4 or 5 hours sleep and I am groggy all day.
I am an old guy living alone so this is kind of a guilty pleasure, I guess. If I have to lose sleep though, as I often do, it is not healthy
Answers:
Oh that is hard. So hard.
But you can do it, if you want to! If you don't, you will always make excuses as to why you fail to go to bed by a certain time.
You have to face it, you are not a tough guy, you have no backbone, and a plastic box, with some metal in it, controls your life.
Good going, give up your life, health and energy for a box, that would simply sit there and stare at you if you were having a heart attack and dying.
Go for a walk to get some fresh air and refresh you, it helps make you feel tired enough to go to bed. Or it should, if your plastic box, full of metal addiction would let you.
Drink some calming teas, chamomile and lavander teas are good for that.
Look at the power button and tell yourself that, a 'little button should never control my life that much'. Then turn the plastic box, full of metal off.
No one can come through the screen and make you turn the plastic box, full of metal off, only you can.
The first few nights of turning off the plastic box, full of metal will be hard, and going to sleep will be harder. But you can do it!
Keep on diminishing the importance of the computer to yourself, like calling it the plastic box, full of metal, and it's importance in your life will lessen.
In fact, if you can get a plastic container, fill it with bits of metal, like nails and bolts and nuts. The set a timer for when you need to get off the plastic box, full of metal, and look at the container and tell yourself that the computer is no more that that container.
Then reward youreslf for the first full week you go to bed at a time needed for you to et eight hours of sleep. Buy a Tshirt you have been wanting.
After a month, then buy a special pillow, just to have a more comforrtable sleep. After six months, of turning off the plastic box, full of metal at the correct time, get yourself massage, a good massage that helps untense muscles and will help you sleep that night.
I wish you the best in your endeavour to accomplish overcoming your addiction to the plastic box, full of metal.
I do want to mention the effects of caffiene, that may be one reason turnign off the plastic box, full of metal is so hard. Limit caffeine intake, cut it off about 9 a.m. It may get hard if you are used to drinking it in any form during the day. You may hate it, but replace it with water. After a while, other drinks could be added, but keep the caffiene to a very small amount.
Now you asked for help, I am only trying to help. You can ignore every word I posted. You can use half of it.
But rest assured, you can overcome the addiction to the plastic box, full of metal!
And one more thing I must say, the spell check isn't working tonight, so please forgive my spelling errors.
A computer addiction is not odd. Many have some form. If have no great responsibilities to exercise, do what you will---but isolatioon is a real danger. Can't you puddle your resources and take to one specific site to learn a craft or other practical matter. In case of fail as your mind says, I should leave/this question is ridiculous or unnecessary. Pretend you are s justomeone else. Log-on to a cite that's rephrehensible and/or strange and think how it bores/stuns you. It's lovely you learn and indulge curiosity and healthful to stimulate--it really opens new channels that keep one alive, but a TIME COMES TO 'LAY TO REST' EACH DAY and look forward to something a little different, and it's just not respectable to attain a certain age and not have any self-control, buddy.
It's an addiction. If it's affecting your daily life and you feel helpless about your condition, you should seek professional help. It may be your only option.
Potential solutions:
* Why not try simply turning off your computer and not using it say between midnight and 6am?
* Perhaps you could move the computer to another, less comfortable room and say you can ONLY use it there.
* If you are using a laptop, allow the battery to charge over night - the next day - you are only allowed to use the laptop for as long as the battery lasts.
Good luck.
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