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] 9 points 1 month ago

People have had similar experiences for least a couple thousand years.

Ecclesiastes 1:8-9

All things are full of labor; Man cannot express it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, Nor the ear filled with hearing. The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

Or, as one translation put:

Everything is futile.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] stoly 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You’re making the assumption that they can derive pleasure from actions. That may not be the case here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I mean maybe? But based on the very minimal information available, what it sounds like they've done is derive pleasure from activities that are only self serving (again, no negative sentiment intended. Life is short, do what you want) so maybe helping others is the new frontier?

Or they could be deeply depressed. Either or both is possible.

[–] stoly 1 points 1 month ago

Yep that’s me. I’ve already done everything I ever wanted and just being is insufficient.