thasero
9mo ago
The deal with microdosing is that drug users use a lot of drugs, actually. A safe, therapeutic dosage can be "micro" in comparison to the addicts and wasters who do so much more. Calling it "microdosing" just makes it more hip and trendy.
So: There might indeed by a psychoactive substance you can take a small amount of that would solve your problem, but I wouldn't suggest starting there.
Try different supplements or sleep aids, the kind that are mild enough that you would suspect a placebo if an Instagram ad recommended it to you as a sleep fix. Simply doing some stretches and drinking a mug of hot cocoa might help. L-Theanine is a common sleep supplement; it's a compound in green tea that tends to help people relax. Put in headphones and listen to a relaxing white noise application for a while. Take a melatonin pill. Etc. etc.
I suggest that for two reasons: First, if you don't even drink, then experimenting with anything stronger - even if it is both safe in general and extremely safe at the dose you would actually be taking - bears the risk that you'll feel so anxious about the psychoactive effects that you'll get even more stressed and fail to get to sleep. THC in particular can put you in a loop of having a weird feeling somewhere in your body, which makes you worried, so you focus more on the feeling, which makes it feel weirder, which makes you more worried... and so on. The loop is easy to break, but still too distracting to sleep through.
Second, the gummies and seltzers are expensive. You should try the cheap stuff first. Taking a hot bath with some Epsom salt is very nearly free.
With that said, if you try some options and they still don't work - and if you have, by experimenting, become comfortable enough with performing weird sleep rituals to summon the Sandman that throwing some honest-to-God drugs into the middle of the pentagram no longer feels like a big, scary step - then CBD and THC gummies drinks are legal in some states; in my locale, the THC seltzers are sold at the convenience store one freezer shelf over from the White Claws. You can Google around for a brand and see if they sell or deliver in your state. Note that Amazon does not list these products and will funnel you towards "hemp" products that are literally placebos.
Try something that only has CBD before you try anything that has THC, and if you try one with THC, pick the lowest dose they sell, typically 5 mg. It takes 1-2 hours to kick in, so don't assume it didn't affect you until 3 hours have passed. You are not going to have a medical event or chemical dependency if you follow this advice; at worst, you will feel briefly nauseous. If that happens, drink some water and wait.
I'm about to go to aforementioned local convenience store to stock up. I've found a brand that's not too expensive, with 10mg CBD and 5mg THC, that improves my sleep. It doesn't necessarily give me great sleep, but it prevents tossing-and-turning bad sleep. Before, the occasional night of awful sleep put me in a vicious cycle where I'd need a strong coffee in the morning to function for work, but I was drinking enough caffeine to end up distracted and fatigued anyway, frequently making me stressed all over again, causing another bad night of sleep. Now, when I feel like I'm not set up for restful sleep for whatever reason, the seltzer at night takes the place of the Starbucks in the morning.
It's negative political polarization applied to the culture war. Your most important sign of loyalty to the (Republican / Democratic) party is your steadfast hatred of the (Democratic / Republican) party; you're in good standing with the left because you hate Trump, or Trump is in good standing with you because he's doing something the left hates.
Translated to the culture war: What makes you a good feminist is to find something men like, and then do the opposite. So if men like good titty in their videogames, but want their actual girlfriend to have never been a prostitute, the feminist ideal is to be in favor of sex work but opposed to sexy space marines. Porn is acceptable because the actress's boyfriend(s) would prefer that she just be a hot barista instead. Attractive women in videogames are bad because not only do men enjoy it, the company profiting is probably made up of men, too.
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