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What are your hidden gem medications/drugs/substances and what makes them ideal for your usecase (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by cheese_greater@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Naltrexone

I will start with naltrexone, which can help people who have difficulty regulating their drinking have a more natural and sustainable relationship with alcohol should they choose to not cut it out of their lives entirely.

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[–] Newtra@pawb.social 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Unfortunately I have to keep my brightness quite high. My eyes can't focus well in the dark.

[–] HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Do red laser safety glasses work for you? Laser glasses are really good at filtering everything but their color and red ones mean you won't get the melatonin destroying blue light in.

[–] Newtra@pawb.social 1 points 11 months ago

Yes. They're very effective at making me sleepy, but have 2 big drawbacks: they're uncomfortable to wear in bed with your head on a pillow, and complete monochromaticity seems to ruin any enjoyment you get from using your phone. If I get bored it's much harder to get to sleep because my brain starts fixating on stuff and making me anxious. Yay ADHD.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Why does dark come into this? Like are you referring to lack of ambient light? Having trouble parsing this...

You should use lamps (no overhead lights) and in warm bulb color like as close to incandescent/warm as you can find on the market

Phillips Hue is fantastic for this

[–] Newtra@pawb.social 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That was directly in response to:

those are helpful altho the name of the game is also brightness

Every night I lie in bed, lights off, using my phone for about 20 minutes while waiting for the melatonin to kick in and my brain to calm down. In a dark room I have to keep my phone on quite high brightness (about 1/3rd of maximum).

Lamps aren't an option at that stage as usually my husband is in the room also trying to sleep. I also find that "warm" light still has too much blue

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I think it usually recommends 1-1.5 hours prior to bedtime for it to kick in, eh? Also your phone likely has much more blue than a dimmed (10%) Philips Hue Colored bulb programmed to red or amber. Can you look into Philips Hue bulbs, I have them and you can literally ask Siri to set it to Red (very conducive and non-distuptive to sleep) and set it to as low as like 10% of the brightness capacity.