I sleep 10 hours a night but still need to nap constantly during the day. Even 400 mg of caffeine doesn't buzz me, it just makes me feel 70% close to my normal, high energy 20s self. My daytime fatigue is so severe I've been mistaken for being drunk (even though I don't drink), and I experience a dream like brain fog around friends unless I use caffeine pills to seem present.
I know this is part of normal aging for a woman in her 30s, but it's frustrating to constantly need naps when I haven't even done anything. Sometimes you just have to biohack. Still, I feel a bit jealous of how men age differently and seem to keep loads of energy.
Are you by any chance neurodivergent? Brain fog is a symptom of adhd or autistic burnout. Drinking a metric fuckton of coffee to function is a common way of self medication for undiagnosed adhd people.
https://www.oxfordcbt.co.uk/adhd-and-fatigue/
https://m.youtube.com/c/HowtoADHD/videos?ra=m
No. This started when I entered my thirties, which is how I know it's age related.
Early thirties is not old.
It is if you're a woman. https://www.healthline.com/health/pregnancy/geriatric-pregnancy 35 or over is clinically classed as "geriatric".
Geriatric pregnancy does not mean women over 35 are geriatric
If your DNA is so beaten up from ageing that having a pregnancy after 35 is risky, then perhaps it makes sense to call 35 old. A woman who is geriatric (or advanced age) having a pregnancy.
Nah
Stop. What are you doing? This is for pregnancy.
At 35 or over a woman's DNA is so beaten up from ageing that the chance of deformities etc goes up *by orders of magnitude. *
You just gave the game away. You're absolutely trolling.
I'm not trolling, though. I'm just stating facts that are freely available in the medical literature. Why else do you think the odds of birth defects increase massively with pregnancies at or after that age, then?
I'm not debating you on pregnancy and women aging. That's not even what the post is about.
What are you doing here?
It's a vent-meme. Sometimes it's just a good way to get frustrations off your chest.
My wife’s ADHD got diagnosed in her late thirties because she hadn’t shown clear symptoms before. She had very good coping mechanisms, but to small children rendered those useless, because she had no energy left to compensate. Living with undiagnosed ADHD can build up a burden in the first quarter of your life, that you suddenly start to feel in your thirties. You wouldn’t be the first one. ADHD in women oftentimes doesn’t look like the cliché. (That’s why women are underdiagnosed) If you should try Adderall and it makes you feel awake, present and focused, but not pumped up and buzzing with energy, that would be another hint.