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.
this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2024
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I can't imagine how insanely nice it must be to have a brain that just... makes the shit you need.
Technically all the dopamine you need is there, it's just that there aren't enough receptors to receive it. Hardly more than a semantic difference though, besides being even more frustrating knowing it's literally all up there but there aren't enough doors for it to squeeze in to the party bus fast enough.
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.
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:
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.
You’re making the assumption that they can derive pleasure from actions. That may not be the case here.
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.
Yep that’s me. I’ve already done everything I ever wanted and just being is insufficient.
Complete?
Please explain.
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 ;-)
That's the problem indeed
Where dopamine?
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.