Habits to make sure you don't go insane
*Know and Be known*: Be in regular proximity with people who know you and care about you and you care about them. Reciprocal care and community.
*Prepare and eat real food*: Not just basic nutrition, but the act of cooking. This ritual is grounding and hands on and removing this entirely separates something so fundamental to life.
*Hydrate*: Cognitive function rapidly degrades with something that can be so simply addressed.
*Sleep rhythm* Constant circadian disruption can often induce symptoms that look like psychiatric disorders.
*Physical exertion*: Your body needs to be physically tired regularly or your nervous system will start misfiring. Anxiety, restlessness, racing thoughts is a lot of just an under-used body.
*Sunlight* Light exposure regulates so much downstream biology that being indoors for days starts warping your sense of time and mood in subtle ways.
*Use your hands* Build something, fix something, cook, play an instrument, do something tangible so you aren't fixated on knowledge work.
*Silence and stillness* Walk, sit, pray, meditate, - make this unstructured processing time without constant signal and input.