Is there an OMD Habitica party? I recently joined and would love to get in on the quest side of things.
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@Oro @LadyDuck and I have one that kind of died but I really should get back to eating vegetables and moving my body so would be up for getting it going again. PM me your username and I’ll invite you. @Greyweld too if you want to.
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I’m very good at starting habitica. I’m also excellent at forgetting habitica …
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Challenge thread for habitica check ins 
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Has anyone here gone cold turkey on coffee/caffeine?
In a week I’m going to give it up. I just have 1-1.5 cups of coffee first thing in the morning, and have done so for… 15 years? Tea and soda don’t agree with my system so I wouldn’t substitute them.
Internet says expect to feel bad for up to 9 days, does that sound right?
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I have, although I moved to a cup of half caff for a couple weeks before stopping. I actually didn’t feel that bad? But caffeine doesn’t seem to have a big effect on my sleep or anything so idk if it would be different for someone else.
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I generally get a huge headache - for less than 9 days though. After 2 weeks or so I have more energy and more level.
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I have several times. I don’t recall feeling that bad at all! Maybe one or two headaches? However, in general my addiction is not physical, it’s more habit and psychology oriented. Like, I quit alcohol and cigarettes cold turkey as well and didn’t feel a lot of physical effect (other than not sleeping for like…weeks, lol, thought I’d never seep again sober, lol).
I think with coffee it was more like, a craving, like when you want salty snack but u have no chips 
but that went away after a few days. I do recommend having some kind of nice drink in the mornings as a substitute. I like rosehips. Or mint tea. But decaf works too!
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I’m not in an OMD one – it’s me and my partner and someone from MMM – but I’d be happy to add you if you want a party! We quest pretty frequently.
eta: I see there is also another offer higher up. All offers are good, do what pleases thee. 
Oh yeah, I am definitely physically addicted - whenever I can’t have coffee first thing, I feel awful until I get it. Tragically every other hot bev makes me barf, but I’m going to get the dog out of the house right away, and hopefully the sun helps.
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Can you tolerate Excedrin? It has some caffeine in it. And it’s my goto for dealing with caffeine withdrawal headaches.
I’ve gone cold turkey several times. It sucks! For about a week. I get big withdrawal headaches and brain sluggishness. Definitely easier if you can do something to take the edge off - for me, a cup of black tea was enough to stop the withdrawal headaches, so if you have the chance to start weaning yourself off, a half-cup or quarter-cup of coffee might be a good place to start.
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I get headaches and really bad brain fog when I cut out caffeine (which I do for six months every year and then get sucked back haha) and have spent way too much time reading about the particular hormone Cascades affected by caffeine. One thing that can help if you have bad brain fog/headaches is spending the first week just waiting 4+ hours then having a little coffee. It helps your brain figure out to start making the normal chemicals that are disrupted by caffeine, which will help the overall withdrawal period suck a little less.
Hopefully you’re like most people who aren’t too terribly affected 
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I went cold Turkey because of ulcer after multiple decades of multiple cups a day. Causes migraines, jitters, diarrhea , and rage. Not fun, but it only lasted maybe three days, not nine.
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3/4 are my normal (not saying which three!) so here’s hoping I can handle all four for three days.
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Does anyone have any good resources (books, online stuff, videos - pretty open) on communicating well across language barriers (i.e. speaking my first language with someone for whom it’s their 2nd). I’ve noticed a tendency in myself to get frustrated with difficulty in getting information across and therefore avoiding talking so much to people at work where this applies and I would really like to learn some better habits to nip my reaction in the bud, and ideally also make the information exchange itself smoother.
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Whenever I feel myself getting frustrated, I apologize about how I am not doing a good job communicating in a positive, sort of self deprecating way. That helps put the other person in a position more at ease because instead of being concerned that I’m going to take it out on them, they are more likely to try harder to help me since I’m the one who needs help.
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Wish I had some links handy. At my old job I was on a team that was a majority ESL. We ended up with a “business English” that felt really unnatural to me - basically I had to learn to strip out idioms and sarcasm. Idioms were especially hard because I reach for them whenever I’m trying to speak more “softly”, and there are so many things that feel like normal speech to me that are actually not literal.
Also my work paid for Grammarly for anyone who wanted it, which actually helped a lot.
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Thank you, that’s a good reminder - it’s certainly what I try to do but I could probably be better about putting it into practise!
Ooh, that’s super interesting. I suspect my work would not be ok with grammerly (they’re super privacy focused), but maybe there are other tools that could help with written things (there’s almost certainly some in house stuff somewhere)
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