It gets easier to remember when you get dependent on it and your hands hurt if you don't put lotion on them. That might just be because I live in a desert, though.
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Same, desert folk checking in. My hands THIRST for lotion.
A valid point, but this study tested forearms. Most of us wash our hands multiple times a day, wiping off natural oils and dehydrating our skin. We don't do that with forearms. If we agree the benefits of handwashing outweigh the dehydration, it's probably better to offset the dehydration with moisturizers.
Moisturizers are often used in the prevention and treatment of irritant contact dermatitis. The present study was to determine whether long-term daily use of a moisturizer on normal skin would affect skin barrier function, hydration state, or susceptibility to sodium lauryl sulphate. Healthy volunteers used a moisturizer on one forearm 3 times daily for 4 weeks. The other forearm served as a control. Afterwards both forearms were challenged with a patch-test of sodium lauryl sulphate. Skin barrier function was evaluated by measuring trans-epidermal water loss and skin hydration by measuring electrical capacitance. Electrical capacitance was significantly increased on the treated arm during the treatment period. After challenge with sodium lauryl sulphate, transepidermal water loss was significantly higher on the arm treated with moisturizer than on the control arm. The results suggest that long-term treatment with moisturizers on normal skin may increase skin susceptibility to irritants.
How do we prevent sodium lauryl sulphate
Or somewhere cold. Or if you wash your hands frequently.
Repetition and consistency
Do it every time you remember and don't torture yourself if you forget. Force yourself at first and set up reminders, post-it notes, alarms, whatever.
At first you'll be annoyed, you may even feel dumb but after a month or two it will become habit and you'll forget less and less .... after a few more months it will become automatic.... after a few years you'll become so attached to whatever it is you'll feel strange not doing it.
It's how I maintained daily journal writing for so many years. Don't get me wrong, years ago I was sporadic and did an entry once a week, sometimes once a month or skipped an entire summer but now I do it every day. Some days my entries are long, some days I only write a sentence or two but I always get myself to record something every time.
Now I feel strange when I don't fill in my daily writeup.
This only works for normies. No matter how hard I try to set a habit, ADHD-induced executive disfunction comes knocking on the door and reminds me why I can't have nice things.
I can force myself to do something for months, but if I miss even a single day all is fucking gone
Habits? What are habits??? Cause my brain doesn't fucking understand them apparently.
Makes me angry cry
I get headaches that last hours. I will forget a dozen times to take medicine. It's so stupid
Setting up immich and seeing the memories of what I did on this day x years ago made me want to take pictures every day of whatever like food or something I did at work just so next year I can see what I did, I wonder if there is a journal app that has a feature like that
I'm not that technically minded to do such things but I do also have the habit of just snapping pictures of whatever I am doing during the day, especially when I leave the house or go somewhere else. If I forget to mention things in my journal, at least an image will remind of what I did that day. It comes in handy with finances or important events that happen. Sometimes when things happen, they don't seem important at the time but then you have to figure out something a year later and you can't remember what you did that day which is where journals and daily (or semi-daily) photos come in handy.
My hydration secret is I have someone give it to me in a basket everyday and if I don't put the lotion on my skin I get the hose again.
So that takes care of showering too! Awesome life-hack!
And I bet the rent is cheap.
I was so bad at self-care for this exact reason until I started using the Finch app. Now, I have to keep up with it to make my birb grow and thrive. I even got three friends to use it, and now we are all addicted to self-care. Amazing how we are more interested in taking care of a cartoon bird more than ourselves.
Just take care of a real finch and cut out the middleman
ADHD is a helluva drug
Also meanwhile, the post the other day about, "okay, desk is clear, I can focus.. huh- check these out.. hands? Eh? Wow. Fascinating... "
Sounds like it wasn’t all that important then