To be fair, Daytime Me is no saint, either

[anticorp@lemmy.world]

At least nighttime you just wants to play video games. When I was a young man, nighttime me wanted to go out dancing, get shit faced, get into fistfights, and paint the town red. That's a lot harder to recover from at work the next day than a late night video game session.

[victorz@lemmy.world]

No sympathy from me lol, sounds like something awful to do to yourself (and others).

[anticorp@lemmy.world]

Well, nighttime me was an asshole of the highest rank. Daytime me just wanted to build a better life for myself.

[victorz@lemmy.world]

I'm guessing alcohol was the catalyst for nighttime you to appear, eh? Anyway, I hope you managed to make a better life, regardless of the cause.

[halykthered@lemmy.ml]

This is no joke, I'm a better person overall when my work day starts at 4pm and goes to midnight. Sure I miss out on stuff, but I exercise, eat better, get better sleep, focus on hobbies. It's much nicer, when I can do it.

[elucubra@sopuli.xyz]

When in my 20s-30s I considered that if I didn't see dawn, it was a lost day. In my 50's I owned a restaurant-bar. A few times I did an all nighter. It literally took me a week to recover. It's called aging.

[aquatofana@lemmy.world]

My husband and I just rediscovered Civ after not playing any of them for a decade.

Even now, a decade later, we have been sitting there for the past 2 weeks being like "Just one more turn" @ 2 am.

[ochi_chernye@startrek.website]

Trust you to bring such a granularly appropriate reaction gif. 'Preciate ya, ummthatguy.

[toynbee@lemmy.world]

Fair warning, TV Tropes link.

There's a name for that:
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JustOneMoreLevel

[agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works]

I used to do an all nighter at least once a month in my 20s with no ill effects unless I tried to do more than one a week. Tried it in my 30s, the recovery was rough.

[jackbydev@programming.dev]

This is going to sound weird. I had this epiphany about self love recently. I pictured myself as two different people and imagined what I would do for the other to show them I love them. It's sort of changed my perspective on things, at least a little.

[slackassassin@sh.itjust.works]

Nice platitude, but I know for sure laziness exists because I do it sometimes.

[dicjacobus@lemmy.world]

every single time I got myself in that slump the only way to get out of it was to literally stay up for like 20 hours straight. I couldnt do it now, I'd pass out and nap

[timecircleline@sh.itjust.works]

It's not weird at all. My therapist had me imagine that part of me is an abandoned kitten, as a self-compassion exercise. It was extremely effective- compassion directed outwards is a lot easier for me, as it sounds like it is for you.

[clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world]

Remember you are one

Respect the balance

[whome@discuss.tchncs.de]

Since I have schoolchildren this has become a real problem. But it's so deeply ingrained in me that I have the feeling I can't change it without some behavioral therapy.