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.
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.
Complete?
Please explain.
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.
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.
I can’t imagine how insanely nice it must be to have a brain that just… makes the shit you need.
Dopamin isn’t released after the task, it’s released as you think you will do it.
Damn my imagination, I get all the dopamine my brain wants from just thinking about doing things, then I don’t do them!
Fooled again by … yourself!
JK, hope you do do things after all (stop doom scrolling if you do ;-)
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