• 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️English
    12•10 hours ago

    Am I lacking dopamine because of depression or because I’ve done everything I like so much, I can’t get back to the dopamine levels my brain has grown accustomed to…? 🤔

    I’ve seen every movie I want. Played every game. Read every book. Done so much shit off my bucket list. I’m just straight up bored with reality now.

    • @[email protected]English
      5•4 hours ago

      Shit man, that’s bleak.

      Were most of your pursuits for your own enjoyment? Nothing wrong with that at all. But maybe that’s the next thing- doing stuff for community/others. That seems a bottomless well of satisfaction.

  • @[email protected]English
    2•11 hours ago

    Hah! Why would I go to all that trouble when there are a million other things I could do to get the dopamine now?

    Oh, yeah. Right. Because I need to do that one thing to keep my life from degrading. But…there are a million other things I could do. Shit.

  • @[email protected]English
    50•1 day ago

    When I complete something my anxiety about completing it goes away. But no dopamine. Just a drop in adrenaline and cortisol.

    What I would give to have a dopamine response without feeding my brain my ADHD pills.

    • flickerEnglish
      21•1 day ago

      I can’t imagine how insanely nice it must be to have a brain that just… makes the shit you need.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•7 hours ago

      Damn my imagination, I get all the dopamine my brain wants from just thinking about doing things, then I don’t do them!

      • @[email protected]English
        0•6 hours ago

        Fooled again by … yourself!

        JK, hope you do do things after all (stop doom scrolling if you do ;-)