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🩺 Health & work status mini update 🗞️
7 months ago
Hi everyone!
Some good news: Mentioned in the last update i was struggling with a few health problems related to stress and overwork as well as RSI conditions slowing me down. One of the main issues has been chronic insomnia, which i've been dealing with since December of last year. For weeks on end i was getting max 4-5 hours of pretty troubled sleep per night, but as of this week it's finally begun to subside and i'm finally starting to get regular sleep again. It's been 7-9 hours every night for a few days in a row now. Not always consecutive, but I'll take it. i am feeling a lot less zombified. the bags under my eyes are still there but they no longer have that dry iguana skin texture.. starting to recover.
This change is the result of a battery of supplements i started taking for stress management and CNS recovery, and which i was only able to purchase all at once due to a generous donation made after my last status update. So thank you again. The supplements i think have made the most difference are L-theanine and Lemon Balm, which noticeably reduced the amount of tension i was under pretty much immediately. If you're curious about the rest of the stack, I am also taking Lecithin, Magnesium Glycinate, Phosphatidyl Serine and B12. The difference has been night and day.
However, once i started getting proper sleep a new wave of exhaustion kind of caught up to me, and i've only been able to put in 3-4 hours of work per day over the last few days. There's this mental and physical fatigue i seriously need to recover from and one of the causes of my hyperproductivity during my months of restlessness was that it was the only way to get my mind off of the anxiety. But now that that's no longer a motivating factor my body is basically just going into rest mode for a bit and if i try to maintain focus for too long i get exhausted immediately (hence no streams over the past week or so). I was hoping to get more done from the backlog this month, but i genuinely need the rest after the fairly brutal work schedule I've been maintaining since mid December. I'm sleeping but I need some like, actual rest.. That said some of the most overdue pics that I was completely stuck on have been completed in the last few days, so i am making progress. April is going to be hectic to say the least though, so I can't push myself too much right now.
As always i am truly grateful for your continued patience, understanding and support while i sort out the situation with overdue work.
Last things last, switching the patreon to a paywalled model. Unique works produced for the patreon will remain paywalled for the time being. I initially experimented with promoting non-paywalled patreon content, but it did not lead to increased membership, so i am going to see if paywalling will do better. i genuinely don't like paywalls as a model, as the value comes from taking something away rather than adding something, and also they're impossible to maintain due to leakers.. but if it's the only way to get people to sign up i guess it's a necessary evil. i may be doing a push for more patreon exclusives per month going forward if people find this model more enticing.
Anyway that's it for me,
love u guys <33
-smokes but sometimes sven
Some good news: Mentioned in the last update i was struggling with a few health problems related to stress and overwork as well as RSI conditions slowing me down. One of the main issues has been chronic insomnia, which i've been dealing with since December of last year. For weeks on end i was getting max 4-5 hours of pretty troubled sleep per night, but as of this week it's finally begun to subside and i'm finally starting to get regular sleep again. It's been 7-9 hours every night for a few days in a row now. Not always consecutive, but I'll take it. i am feeling a lot less zombified. the bags under my eyes are still there but they no longer have that dry iguana skin texture.. starting to recover.
This change is the result of a battery of supplements i started taking for stress management and CNS recovery, and which i was only able to purchase all at once due to a generous donation made after my last status update. So thank you again. The supplements i think have made the most difference are L-theanine and Lemon Balm, which noticeably reduced the amount of tension i was under pretty much immediately. If you're curious about the rest of the stack, I am also taking Lecithin, Magnesium Glycinate, Phosphatidyl Serine and B12. The difference has been night and day.
However, once i started getting proper sleep a new wave of exhaustion kind of caught up to me, and i've only been able to put in 3-4 hours of work per day over the last few days. There's this mental and physical fatigue i seriously need to recover from and one of the causes of my hyperproductivity during my months of restlessness was that it was the only way to get my mind off of the anxiety. But now that that's no longer a motivating factor my body is basically just going into rest mode for a bit and if i try to maintain focus for too long i get exhausted immediately (hence no streams over the past week or so). I was hoping to get more done from the backlog this month, but i genuinely need the rest after the fairly brutal work schedule I've been maintaining since mid December. I'm sleeping but I need some like, actual rest.. That said some of the most overdue pics that I was completely stuck on have been completed in the last few days, so i am making progress. April is going to be hectic to say the least though, so I can't push myself too much right now.
As always i am truly grateful for your continued patience, understanding and support while i sort out the situation with overdue work.
Last things last, switching the patreon to a paywalled model. Unique works produced for the patreon will remain paywalled for the time being. I initially experimented with promoting non-paywalled patreon content, but it did not lead to increased membership, so i am going to see if paywalling will do better. i genuinely don't like paywalls as a model, as the value comes from taking something away rather than adding something, and also they're impossible to maintain due to leakers.. but if it's the only way to get people to sign up i guess it's a necessary evil. i may be doing a push for more patreon exclusives per month going forward if people find this model more enticing.
Anyway that's it for me,
love u guys <33
-smokes but sometimes sven
