sur5ortype - All-nighters, etc.

Posted by BekkaH on January 12, 2003, at 22:31:02

In reply to Re: Strattera - Day 500-sur5ortype, posted by Sur5orType on January 11, 2003, at 11:00:22

> There are of course, as I eluded to, adults who will prefer stimulants. One in a post above spoke about the beneficial effect of being able to pull an all nighter. It worries me that it would skew the findings. It is, in my humble opinion, definately a question of dependency.> An adult might prefer the energy of the stimulant. That has a chance of skewing this debate, but time will tell, no?
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Hi Sur5ortype: Hmm. . .Well, as far as all-nighters are concerned, I have to say that most, but not all, of the all-nighters I've pulled have been due to just plain poor planning on my part. Yes, sometimes scheduling problems can force one to pull an all-nighter, as can other things going on in one's life, but FOR ME, it has usually been my own inability to gauge how much time I really need to get a project done. There's something else that I've discovered about staying up all night: The QUALITY of the time late at night FEELS very different from the same QUANTITY of time during the day. I came across a poem by T.S. Eliot, "Dry Salvages" from FOUR QUARTETS, that describes the middle-of-the-night perfectly. Eliot speaks of the hours "between midnight and dawn . . . when time stops and time is never ending." When I work at night, I TEND TO THINK I HAVE MORE TIME THAN I ACTUALLY DO because it FEELS as if "time stops and time is never ending." Even without any medications, I do have a circadian phase shift, but no matter how I rationalize my need to pull all-nighters, when I'm really honest with myself, I think I produce much better work during the day -- if I've had a good night's sleep the night before!
And, yes, I agree with you -- it's good to know that there is a non-stimulant alternative. I hope pharmacologists continue to work in that direction.

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