Also, for a friendly critical comment to your anti-depressants philosophy -- when I read your first post when you started on them, and felt a "constant underlying sense of energy", I thought "great that it works for Ben now, but what long-term?". Because my personal experience from a couple of people I knew using them, they weren't that happy overall, and spent a lot of their energy figuring out the exact cocktail. And then I didn't read your blog for 2 years, and when I opened it again, the first post I read was you writing about dealing with antidepressant withdrawal effects.
Another personal story -- my former roommate was married to a guy with depression, and he was going through different antidepressants, was stuck in a dead-end job. They divorced, and somehow 2 weeks later he got a new girlfriend, 2 months later new job, and his depression seems to have disappeared. She told me that just before they divorced, he switched to a new antidepressant, and she wished she knew it would work so well before divorcing him.
I looked him up and saw that his new wife was much better looking than her!
For instance I recently been noticed a strong correlation between my number of steps walked and productivity using exist.io to aggregate https://ibb.co/K7q1VcC
Regarding your chemical experiments, have you considered tracking objective measures of performance? Or is it not a goal for you? For instance, I use Rescue time, and then see time in various areas correlates to other changes
Also, for a friendly critical comment to your anti-depressants philosophy -- when I read your first post when you started on them, and felt a "constant underlying sense of energy", I thought "great that it works for Ben now, but what long-term?". Because my personal experience from a couple of people I knew using them, they weren't that happy overall, and spent a lot of their energy figuring out the exact cocktail. And then I didn't read your blog for 2 years, and when I opened it again, the first post I read was you writing about dealing with antidepressant withdrawal effects.
Another personal story -- my former roommate was married to a guy with depression, and he was going through different antidepressants, was stuck in a dead-end job. They divorced, and somehow 2 weeks later he got a new girlfriend, 2 months later new job, and his depression seems to have disappeared. She told me that just before they divorced, he switched to a new antidepressant, and she wished she knew it would work so well before divorcing him.
I looked him up and saw that his new wife was much better looking than her!
(PS, your wife is really good looking)
For instance I recently been noticed a strong correlation between my number of steps walked and productivity using exist.io to aggregate https://ibb.co/K7q1VcC
Regarding your chemical experiments, have you considered tracking objective measures of performance? Or is it not a goal for you? For instance, I use Rescue time, and then see time in various areas correlates to other changes