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Things that may or may not help:

- exercise

- no sugar/low carb/paleo diet

- meditation

- ambient music / white noise

- small goals

- adderall

- modafinal

- cannabis

- seinfeld's "don't break the chain" method

- dont fight it, monetize it

good luck bro

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Cannabis certainly didn't help for me (though of course it's hard to isolate its effects amongst everything else). It made me more interested in doing things at first, but my mind would race much more, and I'd find it harder to actually do those things.

I quit a while back and have surprisingly had little urge to do it any more. While I greatly value the difference in perspective it can offer, I was just using it way too often for too long, without even really enjoying it a lot of the time.

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