This is kind of personal but wait for the conclusion.

I'm having bad migraines. I used to have them like 10 years ago and recently they came back. The only way to stop an attack is to lie down in a dark room for a few hours and then it's back the next day. CT scan shows nothing. My neurologist shrugged and prescribed some meds. They sometimes take the pain from 8 to 6 on a 0-10 scale, sometimes they do nothing. I stopped working on the weekends and it got better, no more migraines on Saturday morning. So I took few weeks of time off and not a single migraine until the last day.

My shrink said I'm allergic to work.

In all seriousness, though, remember to take breaks from work and don't stress too much. Psychosomatic symptoms are not a joke. What my shrink also said was "you won't be any younger, you can't wear yourself out like you did in your 20s, you either change your work or I'll be treating you for a burn-out syndrome".

My wife has migraines. She got an ear ring put inside the ear lobe that is supposed to be an acupressure point. She says it has helped quite a bit.

Do you clench your jaw all day like I do when I'm stressed? That will give you a headache and toothaches.

Had less than ten headaches in my life. But I do often have a high beep in my head. But git used to that

@retoor I got tinnitus started in Jan 2023. Just in right ear.

i had two migraine attacks in my life.

the first was terrible. i wanted to die for 10 hours straight.

the second began the same way, but was over after five minutes, when i rolled one up. literally smoked away.

your mileage might vary, but THC (or if you don't partake, CBD) might be worth a shot.

Might not be wrong.

Psychosomatic disorders are real.

@Demolishun no, it's not that. Mine is not from ears. Really in center of head. High, almost electronic

@retoor its a pressure point. There are pressure points in your feet that affect your guts. Pressure points are not always local to the problem.

seems to be the case. I have a hard time waking up to go to work during weekdays. I have my alarm set for 06:00 AM during these days to prepare myself. It is a drag to wake up. Come saturday and I am fresh up at 6 with no issues.

Work sucks, i don't care what anyone says, even as the head of my whole division, I just want to do my own things, not slave away at some company.

Money.

@cuddlyogre I don't think I do... My struggle doesn't really show on the outside in any way. I just stress out internally. About not knowing things or not feeling adequate. I'm kind of stuck in a job where we use old tech stack and can't get out of it easily because market needs changed. I'm really good at PHP5 with our in-house framework. I know our in-house solutions inside-out but we're slowly shutting them down in favour of, well, worst solutions that belong to our used-to-be competitor we merged with (because politics). On top of that I inherited maintenance over that super modern totally not-over-engineered mailing system that's using JSON fields in MySQL and lately became unusable due to some seemingly unresolvable indexing issue on generated columns... I'm behind with everything. People think I'm almost done with that mailing thing and I don't correct them but the truth is I didn't even start. So yeah, there's that.

@cprn That situation would give a jellyfish a headache.

listen to meditation, it helped me