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I really like this. It’s so hard to recognize when energy / restlessness is something I need to channel “productively”, or when I just need to knock myself out.

Thanks. This was fun piece of writing to read with a nice premise. And something to hopefully remember when a busy week leaves me wired rather than tired.

I don't think this has ever happened to me. More work = more tired.

This is a great take. I regularly get this feeling, but have always described it as "Friday Brain".

The mentions of bipolar, I can't speak for the poster but I am undiagnosed due.to no classic symptoms.

Love it but note that Dan Ariely is a fraud: https://datacolada.org/98

For those who might be confused, Dan doesn't appear to be the author of the OP, Dan is Quoted by the author

I don't get the point of this comment. So, there's a quote in the article by 'Dan Ariely'. The quote is 'Humans are predictably irrational'

So what if Dan Ariely is a fraud, a crazy or a madman. If something someone says seems valuable to you, take it. Why does their history matter?

As a note to the author/OP, nothing more

The post you link uncovers apparent frauds in research from 2012 and 2020. Ariely's reply says that he received the data in good faith, and that it was provided by private insurance companies. He also thanks the post authors for their work.

This doesn't paint him as a fraud, but as a victim of fraud.

There's been enough follow-up on this case to come to the conclusion that he fabricated the data. The Hartford insurance company's statement contradicts his claim. The PNAS study was retracted after the Data Colada article and there are anomalies in his other work.

[0]: https://openmkt.org/blog/2023/everyone-involved-in-dan-ariel...

[1]: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/08/19/a-scandal-...

[2]: https://www.npr.org/2023/07/27/1190568472/dan-ariely-frances...

> It is clear the data was manipulated inappropriately and supplemented by synthesized or fabricated data.

Oh dear, far more damning. Thanks for the links.

Haha my wife and I already call this "Golden retriever mode" when I get the zoomies after too much work or when I first wake up mind racing and full of wrestling energy.

If it's later in the day I like to put a heavy weight in a pack and walk around the neighborhood. In the morning, I will often just go for a regular walk or start working early.

Gotta be honest, it sounds like this guy has bipolar disorder

Idk, this resonates with me and in ten years with a great therapist, the idea that I have bipolar has never come up. A friend of mine acts this way too. She is an artist, and has late night art sessions from time to time, which ultimately wipe her out. I appreciate the discussion in this article about it.

That was exactly my thought. A relatively mild case, but still.

Not sure about diagnosing someone over the Internet, but yeah, can’t relate. The rare days I wake up feeling half as alert and driven as described, it’s great, I get a ton of important shit done, feel wonderful and alive the whole time, go “oh, this is why some people are wildly more accomplished than me—they must feel like this quite a bit more often than I do, I’d be fucking emperor of Earth if I felt this way even one day a week”.

Then I’m back to normal for the next six months or so :-)

This reminds me of some of the stuff I would write in my early 20’s, well after midnight. The difference being that I read it the next morning and hit delete.

Not sure if you're talking about the above comment or my post, but IF it's the latter I take it as a compliment, so thank you. If you meant the former, ignore the rest of this comment.

The reason I take it as a compliment is that I created this secondary blog to work on my perfectionism (I write mostly on sonnet.io), so the content here will be rough and generate this sort of feedback. People still seem to find it useful, so I'm ok with mistakes.

> hit delete.

I hope you kept a copy somewhere! Whether you feel embarrassed about it or not--it's a part of you and there's something to learn from. Speaking as someone much older than early 20s here.

What he's describing sounds similar to experiences of some people diagnosed with ADHD.

Yeah, I relate and got an ADHD (inattentive) diagnosis some years ago, though wasn't able to take meds. This kind of really wired manic phase descends on me sometimes and it's usually quite brief (two weeks) but I have come to resent it rather than enjoy it as the burnout after is always terrible.

Why weren't you able to take meds?

I also have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and the anxiety increasing side-effects on stimulants made me into a gibbering wreck. My extreme reaction was part of what got me the OCD diagnosis as I was forced to come clean about some of the thought patterns I had been unwilling to discuss. I still believe I have ADHD as with appropriate therapy the OCD symptoms are largely gone, but the ADHD ones are not. I also have a number of other family members on my maternal side who have ADHD diagnosis or would have if they werern't from an older generation (most notably my mother, from whom I have learnt all the coping mechanisms that allow me to get by without meds). Complicating things further, my mother's side of the family has an abnormally high number of people with bipolar disorder, which is also understood to have a relationship to OCD. I am not bipolar however, and neither is my mother.

There is a strange psychology rabbit hole to go down with the inter-relation between the conditions. Each population is more likely to be diagnosed witht he other condition than the general populace -- yet our biochemical theories for how each works should make having both impossible. One is believed to be caused by too much dopamine, the other too little.

Related to this, after a first attempt at stimulants, I was given an anti-smoking medication that has off-label use as an ADHD treatment. It works by increasing dopamine levels. This was even worse than stimulants, but I wouldn't have called the effect as increasing the obsessive-compulsive symptoms, more I just felt very very stressed and about a hair-width from a breakdown for a week.

Thanks for the diagnose, but I have neither Bipolar Disorder nor ADHD. There's some similarity between how my brain works and people with ADHD, but for different reasons and at a much smaller scale.

I recommend reading a bit more about those conditions, especially BD. You'll realise that the similarities are only superficial.

Why the hell each time someone is telling about some sort of hyper active brain state people starts to point out to bipolar or ADHD disorder??

If you can't relate with that it doesn't mean it must be immediately labeled as mental disorder.

Not even close to a clinic diagnosis for bipolar.

Bipolar changes don't just randomly happen on a Friday and return to normal Saturday morning. They tend to be long last swings from manic to depressed.

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