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Hey all :) So, for years, I've had trouble waking up early on my own. These days, I wake up at 11am or 12pm on average --- way too late, I know. This is despite me setting multiple alarms on my phone and putting the phone in a place that's hard to reach. I believe this bad habit has formed for multiple reasons: difficulty falling asleep without something (ex: an audiobook or calming music) playing in the background to distract me from my own thoughts --- I have both ADHD and anxiety, and trouble falling asleep has been strongly correlated with both conditions. mental laziness in the form of me turning the alarm off, thinking to myself, "Just 5 more minutes..." and the next thing you know, hours have passed before I decide to get out of bed. vivid dreams from Zoloft (sertraline) --- I started taking this medication about a year ago to treat my anxiety. It works pretty well, but the main drawback is that it sometimes causes me to have dreams that are barely distinguishable from reality, to the point where it takes me hours to wake up and realize that I had in fact been asleep the whole time. side effects from Keppra (an anti-epileptic drug) --- I have been taking it for almost a decade to treat my seizures, but drowsiness is one of the most commonly experienced side effects. lack of structure in my life due to me no longer having to physically travel to school/work. When I wake up early, it's almost always because I'm forced to, whether it's school, work, or some other event I have to attend. But since that need for punctuality has largely been removed, I've found myself slipping back into my bad habit of going to bed late and waking up late. I think another reason for this is that, ever since I've moved back in with my family due to the COVID-19 crisis, my general level of discipline has gone down. I no longer need to cook, clean, and buy groceries on my own; as a result, I feel lazier than before. To combat my tendency to wake up late and turn off my phone alarms, I've tried putting my phone outside my room or in a place inside my room that's hard for me to reach. The thing is, when I put my phone outside my room, I don't always hear the alarm. Meanwhile, the rest of my family does hear it, and they've complained to me multiple times about being woken up by my alarms. Who else is experiencing something similar? How do you resist the temptation to postpone your alarms?

Hey there! I need your help with Media. I catch my self way too often checking apps I just looked at, downloading games to spend time, watching the suggested videos on youtube or just turning on the tv or even my xbox. While this behavior is not bad, on some days I do it too much instead of doing something productive, even productive activities that I do enjoy. So how do I attack this habit ? I thought about two ways. 1. Slow. Reduce the time spent on these devices more and more over the time until the point where I do it sometimes but not to kill time or procastinate but to have fun. 2. Fast: Delete said apps and games, unplug my tv and xbox, hide my controller and remote. Once I am confortable with eliminating everything, I can use them to have fun. Both have it's pro and cons, but I don't know which is the better way. No 1 is the "softer" way without so much "feelings of loss", but it it takes more time since I first have to track how long I use it, think about a good number to reduce it, track consistently etc. My thoughts will be often with the stuff + high risk of falling back because of the easy access. No 2 is the hard version, it will create a loss. But because of its "brutality" there is no more work than staying away. Low risk of falling back, reinstalling apps takes a lot of action and thougts. Is there a no3, an even better way? Thanks for reading through all this mess of my thougts, it would be awesome to hear your opinions. Are my thoughts about the ways wrong? If I find a way that works, I will add it in here ~Ikarus

So, I've been trying to quit smoking for the past.... ooh, I dunno, roughly 7 months or so. I always end up going back to cigarettes for a myriad of "reasons". I finally admitted that I wasn't having any success trying on my own and enrolled myself in the Army's ASAP smoking cessation program. They even give you Zyban to help (hopefully!) TODAY is the official Quit Day for my group. I'm not overly confident - I've failed so many times now - BUT I am hopeful. I want this. I've wanted this for a very long time. So I'm crossing my fingers, closing my eyes, and taking the plunge again. Hurray.