OFFICIAL 2026 New Year, New Me! Health and Wellness Accountability Thread

[EvoFire]

Originally Posted by Gerbs

My #1 2026 goal is to fix my chronic fatigue.

My energy levels for 5 years is near 0, never felt awake, sleep 8.5 hours and still dead, can't stay asleep, keep waking up.

Just picking up on the sleep thing.

How old is your mattress? How old is your pillow? Last year (or was it two years ago now) I was looking for a new mattress because I realized my existing mattress had aged out.

I am an all over the place sleeper, so basically depending on the day and physical state I could sleep on my side or front or back. My mattress no longer let me sleep on my front without a ton of pain, which sometimes I just need if I have a very busy brain, something about sleeping on my front calms me.

Anyways. I spent a ton of time doing research and trying out mattresses. I wouldn't say I sleep like a baby right now, but it's definitely improved.

Pillow wise I am using a bamboo pillow from Costco a few years ago. It's probably time to get a new pillow but I haven't come across anything that's good.

I sleep with a heavy old school blanket from China. IIRC my blanket is an 8lb double. Wife uses a 10lb double. Might be worthwhile to look into a weighted blanket or just something old school.

[supafamous]

Originally Posted by EvoFire

I would becareful with company provided mental health support. No judgement sure, but they will know that you accessed help and it may be detrimental to your chances to move up in the future. That was second hand info.

Technically it's not company provided, its provider provided mental health support.

While I'm sure that there are companies out there that find ways to get access to the records or even look at them I've never in 20 years in management heard of this happening in any of the companies I've worked at. Nor has use of benefits ever been a consideration in any promotion or performance evaluation I've been a part of - this is covering hundreds of employees (probably well over a thousand).

OTOH, the "anonymous" employee satisfaction/engagement survey is not truly anonymous. There's enough demographic data that we can narrow stuff down pretty good if we wanted to - I know of one person that was fired for their comments in the survey.

[spoon.ek9]

I get dry needling from my physio, really helps loosen things up. Also getting RMT once per week which is nice. Back when I went to chiro, that would also make me sleep quite well.

I don't tend to have trouble sleeping on a normal basis, but these things all make me wanna nap lol.