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ofkilljoysandslytherins · 5 months

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*Takes a deep sniff of my Earl Grey teabag before bedtime like it's my man*

(Bergamot is hella sexy. I'm chronically single)

#the things we do for dopamine #why is the scent of bergamot so attractive #shitposting #my feelings #tea #teablr #perfume #earl grey #girlblogger #girlblogging #lana del rey #just girly things

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brainrotisseriechicken · 10 days

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hi....scrapped wip again. im rlly not built for color. yap incoming

sorry my productivity tanked my 7 year old laptop is nearing its final breath and im just stalling buying a new one as long as possible to not violate the boycott but she (laptop) is making this shit DIFFICULT

im gnna be so honest w yall i havent had the drive to do shit all lately like. i need dopamine kicks to function but nothings working for some reason ??? i bought a jjk book and i fucking love jjk so i should be excited but im ??? not????? fucked up how that works

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simgerale · 1 month

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me after attempting to get back into sims and realizing i had a lot more to do than play the game

#hi everyone #I’m going around hugging you all #okay now that we are gathered here today #i will simply acknowledge that i have been gone for a very long time and then also acknowledge that maybe it was for the best #i relied on sims to be my only creative activity even if i tried to write a book at the same time #and also. i prioritized sims over real life responsibilities. that’s just a deadly combination lol #but I recently noticed I just replaced sims with Netflix. with YouTube. with anything that gave me quick dopamine #literally became addicted in a sense. still am but I’ve been cut cold turkey from most everything #I get off work and go. okay I’ve done the dishes and the laundry……..I could read or write or bake….#I try to write and sometimes i get a good hour #then I read for a few hours and then get tired of it #and I made cookies Tuesday so I’m waiting for those to be gone before baking again #I’m just so pitiful that I feel BORED and don’t know what to do #so I said….. okay what if I do sims for an hour.#I downloaded some new cc Tuesday and tried to play yesterday #y’all ……………….. I can’t find the energy anymore to set up elaborate scenes and pose my sims and plan posts #I said wow… this is boring without my intervention and fake story #I said wow…….. all this for what? for tumblr? yes I created cool things and provided joy. but is that inherintly important compared to my #own joy? my own everyday activities I should be doing?#y’all I do not leave the house unless we got out to eat or shop or travel to our parents #.. I have little desire to. I’m trying to find that desire #but my husband is busy with grad school and work and I don’t want to do anything by myself #I’ve found myself in one heck of a slump #I didn’t want to be human for awhile. just had no desires no interests no ambitions #I was slacking off SO HARD at work. I just had no drive to do well #I’m still working on it. I’m still trying to get caught up. I’m still trying to force myself to move every day.#but I am struggling y’all. and I can tell you that sims… sims isn’t helping rn but I want it to so bad. I want to get back into it #I didn’t mean to disappear on everyone. I got married and then life got busy and then I fell into this hole of nothing #I didn’t even WANT to crawl my way out. but my husband has helped a lot. I feel like such a child!!!!#I reached max tags. 🙃 bye love you all. till next time

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cultofmothman · 3 months

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hey yk what?? as someone who isnt on booktok/tube but will occasionally brush past some stuff and likes hearing the drama. booktok/tube needs to get into LIBRARIES. u do not need to be buying every book u wanna read. u also do not need to be buying books if u dont even know if ull like them. u also do not need to buy books just bc other people like them.

not only is it yk. financially not viable for a lot of ppl but also libraries are fucking great and theyre dying out and i think it would b rlly cool if all the attention and community could start utilizing libraries

#ofc i understand wanting ur own copy of a book thats special to u or whatever yk #but we do NOT need to go to a barnes and noble instead of a library #also u get a fun little library card?? magical. keep that shit on u and its like a book credit card #also i firmly believe that the dopamine associated w online ordering could be replaced to some extent w online putting things on hold #booklr #books #booktok #books & libraries #public library

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clown-femme · 2 months

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I kind of resent when other adhd people talk about hyperfocus only because I'm jealous that I don't do that. I WISH I could zero in and stay focused on one task at a time. Can you imagine. I can't even do that with things I like.

That said I am also annoyed when people misuse the term hyperfocus to just mean 'the thing I'm into right now' but that is Beside the point

#i think my Heavy depression makes it hard for me to get the brain chemical response needed for the adhd brain employees to go 'mm yummy'#'more of this please' and make me lock into focus #i think there is a factory between my ears and there are two departments that are at odds #and one is my depression and the other is the adhd #and the depression has halted production of dopamine. it cut funding on serotonin and dopamine because of my life's conga line of misfortune #and the adhd side is like. goddamn we need some dopamine bad. we are going to try to do everything at once to get some. 87 tabs.#14 rps going on at once. three songs stuck in head. click teeth together too.#we are NOT touching a single thing that doesnt help the dopamine machine make more dopamine for us so cut all other activities. work??? well #work is hard. actually most things are hard. and they take too many steps. now i know things like our hobbies Might produce dopamine but #well its not fast enough. and also tooooo many steps. everything too many steps.#sit on couch and 87 tabs just enough steps.#this has to be the case until we can get enough dopamine from anything at all to want to linger on an activity #and then back to depression #where its like. see?? look. we dont do anything and we hate ourselves. we cant make ourselves do things that we like or dislike.#this is why we cant have dopamine or serotonin.#and then i am left on the outside unable to focus on my work or my writing or even on fun things like rp #sorry for wall of tags

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opens-up-4-nobody · 2 months

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#its sort of funny. i think my medication is working pretty well. i feel stable in a way i never really have before #is it the dopamine stablizer or is it my ion channels? whos to say. it doesn't matter. but it also doesnt change some things #the ways i think and react negativly to change. but it makes it easier to deal with. i still experience this strange dispaire on the #weekends or anytime im not working. i think the oddest thing is thst i dont think ive ever been this consistenly sad #not in a depressed sort of way. just a passing thoughts make me tear up sort of way. it doesnt feel out of control. it just feels like a #prelude to grief i guess. bc my mum is still in the hospital and its so hard to kno what that means from halfway across the country #my sisters are both home right now. they both live within 3hrs of where we grew up. one sister lives in the city my mom goes to for #treatment. so they have the opportunity to see her more than me. i dunno if they do tho. we dont really talk. i dont kno if they're as sad #as i am. if im overreacting bc i cant physically see what's happening. what the feeling is in the room. not that she would probably complain #shes the suffer in silence type. my dad keeps texting us pics of our shitty lil sunroom that hes redoing #to make my mum a lil sanctuary. he must be sad too. its his wife. hes staying with her in the hospital rn. i dunno its so weird #when i talk to my counselor she assumes i find out info thru calls or talk to my sisters abt it and i gotta b like nah we dont really talk #i get my info thru text. i havent talked to my parents on the phone in like a month. i dunno we just dont talk. so i dont kno how to reach #out and be like yo so whats up? shoulf i plan on coming home this summer for a bit?? like???#this is the disadvantage of leaving thr place where you grew up. probably when i finish my phd i should move closer to home #somewhere in the Appalachian mountains maybe. somewere in the eastern deciduous forrest. somewhere with thunderstorms.#but thats years from now. who knows what ill b doing. for now im just sad and tired and i dont quite kno what to do in the short or long #term bc im feeling the weight of my mental limitations rather intensely. but maybe im just being self limiting #whatever. i dont have a dead mum yet. shes not even on hospice care. things are just uncertain and dont look so hot #i just dont see how it can get better from here when chemo gave her secondary blood cancer and shes still full of tumors #i dont think im being that dramatic. it just objectively seems not great for survival #unrelated

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marcsnuffy · 5 months

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Shidou getting mischaracterized in fanon content is a big pet peeve of mine

#there's a balance to him #believe it or not #txt #it's a very thin line from 'yeah he'd do/say that lmao' and 'we didn't read the same manga'#like he's not a scheming type of guy his whole thing is instincts #and personally #i can't suspend my disbelief enough for any concept involving him being interested in someone #without considering his whole 'exploding' philosophy yknow #i can't believe i said all this abt the here comes the dopamine guy. SIGHHHHH

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lover-of-mine · 2 months

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People do know they don't have to buy a Stanley, right? Or whatever the fuck is the current bottle people want. You got your bottle for free in an event in 2015? All the power to you, but if having a cup that matches their outfit makes someone happy, why the fuck do you care????? Are you paying for their bottle? No, you're not. The bottle will still be produced. What's the ethical problem here??? If having a blue cup, and a pink cup, and a cup that makes me look like a koala keeps me going, then it's a necessary purchase. You're not the one spending money on it so why do you care?????????

#i got 5 tiktok videos on a row of people bragging about their old bottles #one girl literally ran her bottle over #and im like okay? you dont care where you're drinking your water #some people find dopamine on stupid shit like having their bottle match with stuff why do you care how they're spending their money????#ugh #yes i have a Stanley. it was a gift tho #i also have more cups that i probably should have #but one sparkly cups that match my phone case kept me drinking water while i was at uni so i think thats a win #and they were also a small purchase that kept me going on bad days #i dont see the harm on having multiples of one thing #its not like I'm throwing the old ones away #i still use most of them when i feel like it #its a harmless thing #ITS A FUCKING WATER BOTTLE #fucks sake we cant like anything #thoughts thoughts thoughts

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gatheringkeepsakes · 4 months

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i say this as someone with an ADHD diagnosis, but if you find that one of the biggest struggles you face is executive dysfunction... but you also have a history of complex trauma... consider that it might not just be the ADHD, but that you are stuck in a state of chronic freeze response.

#not trying to invalidate or dismiss peoples experiences #but we've been trying to treat the adhd for me. the executive dysfunction. it has not worked.#the only things that have helped me make progress are trauma treatments #'everyone has ADHD these days'#part of this is because more people know about it #but i genuinely wonder how much of it is just the complex trauma so many of us experience from the absolutely fucked society #that we currently live in #from abusive family - that many people don't even know the signs of #to systemic oppression like #how many of us are actually experiencing dopamine deficiency and how many people got cyberbullied too many times as a teen #look outside and see a genocide going on funded by our tax dollars and go #i cannot do my fucking dishes why can't i do my dishes clearly I have a disorder #idk #maybe it's a completely justified trauma response #food for thought #adhd #cptsd

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brightlotusmoon · 1 year

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#stop demonizing adhd drugs #congratulations to drugs for winning the war on drugs #cannabis is medicine #being high is not a bad thing #better living through modern chemistry #fibromyalgia and dopamine depletion #adhd and dopamine regulation #adhd and caffeine #we can't all be neurotypical karen #don't make me tap the sign #if you can't make your own neurotransmitters store bought is fine #new age bullshit for the next generation #we know better now #drugs are good #medication is good #don't tell me what to do #gen x annoyed with all the rest of you t shirt

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wtf-amiru · 23 days

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y’all I finally got my official adhd diagnosis today and I’m still too excited about it to sleep

#maple rambles #medical misogyny is so fun #watching three males get diagnosis’ over the phone in under a week #and having to say the same thing to doctors and psychiatrists for years on end #being told it’s just anxiety or depression #and never getting any relief #grinding my face into the same blatant symptoms for ages #I’m so relieved #my diagnosing psychiatrist tried to tell me adults grow out of adhd in the same breath #it was wild #I verbally corrected him #literally if you type do people grow…#into google one of the first results is out of adhd #and literally every article that comes up says no #lmao #he also tried to tell me we didn’t talk about my childhood at my last appointment #I corrected him on that too #and after he found out who my new doctor was I could hear him deflate #she’s a woman who takes no shit #even with me #she’s given me stern shit before for generally forgetting things and not looking after myself #shit I deserved don’t worry lol #anyway #I’m still experiencing the dopamine high #can’t sleep #might work on my jinx figure for a bit

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saturniade · 2 months

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replaying bgate is so fun man...

#ive been feeling real down lately but oh thank you lots the watery dopamine of videogames <3 #i should go for a walk tho. in real life. AND THEN IN THE VIDEOGAME #yoo my post #this playthru im playing origin astarion + romancing wyll and im loving ittttt also my party is so ranged/magic heavy lol #that because my first party was me + lae`zel karlach astarion. so im mixing it up w me + wyll shadowheart gale ofcourse!#didnt do a lot of their quests my first time around (and i mean I Just Didnt Have Gale.) so this one is a cool new spin!#achievement hunting and even more exploring... (i keep finding new areas and things!)#third plauthrough we will be going DURGE. and maybe HONOR MODE. which is famously A BAD IDEA #just fought ansur in origin astarion n survived by the skin of my teeth... idk how i can win that in honor mode...#siiigh anyway. maybe by actually buffing myself w elixirs beforehand lmao

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woohooincoffin · 9 months

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Thank god I’ve got a video game addiction because my brain is acting like a self destructive frat boy right now. The alternative is much worse

#why am I wanting to drink copious amounts of alcohol #no brain we are not doing that #I know myself so well I don’t even buy alcohol #I drink like 3x a year because there’s a history of alcoholism in my family #and I have such a dopamine seeking addicting I need to focus that toward the least harmful thing I can find #alcohol mention tw #alcoholism tw #I am having such a time tm reeling my brain in and redirecting my behavior #but at least I can do that really well

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luxflora · 8 months

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#myposts #personal log #god im in such a fucking mood this week #the dopamine and/or serotonin are low as FUCK #at least through tomorrow ive already given myself permission to not do shit #BUT IT DOESNT MAKE ME FEEL ANY BETTER.#god. i wonder if a lil workout would help.#it didnt help earlier this week (maybe?) but i could do more today and just doing it might make me feel... something #also my eyes feel watery or hot or something? reminds me of allergies but i dont think i have any active rn???#maybe i should take a benadryl & see how things go. it's probably help me maintain the sleep schedule i want at least #ok. juice/snack. casual workout. shower. benadryl. brush teeth. bed. we have a plan.

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nexus-nebulae · 2 months

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the aftermath of having 2 terabytes of storage

#i have never had a computer this nice lmao #i'm constantly so used to automatically assuming i Can't Do Most Things bc most of the time i'm barred from Everything #either by physical skill or money or age or location #so when i got a Nice Computer my brain was like STUFF I CAN DO?????????? STUFF I CAN DO!!!!!!!!!!!!#and just. downloaded all the games i haven't been able to play bc my laptop sucks ass #the dopamine rush. lmao #i can actually play skyrim again for the first time since i was 17 😭#genuinely getting this computer has given me the exact same feeling as finally getting my wheelchair #just the fucking sheer joy of *oh my fucking god i have freedom now. i can actually DO STUFF*#seriously being able to use the wheelchair has made me so fucking happy i don't feel awful when going to the store i can actually THINK #bc i dont have brain fog from having to focus all of my energy on staying upright #and the computer is giving me the same feeling of freedom like. i can actually DO STUFF with my computer and not worry about it crashing #i can record video now!!!! I COULD START STREAMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#i can actually learn to code because the coding programs will run!!!!!! i can start making datapacks!!!!!!!!!!!!!#can PLAY THE GAMES I'VE BOUGHT OVER THE YEARS FINALLY #FUCKING THANK YOU STEAM FOR LETTING ME KEEP THESE GAMES UNTIL I CAN ACTUALLY PLAY THEM #INSTEAD OF BEING A SHITASS STREAMING SERVICE THAT TAKES AWAY YOUR PRODUCT *AND* MONEY WHENEVER THEY FEEL LIKE IT #like i bought assassins creed odyssey the year it came out and i've never even been able to OPEN it on any of my old computers #i bought Jusant recently because it looks very pretty but the game wouldn't let me download it on my laptop bc the graphics card was shit #i have a bunch of games that I've just hoarded on my steam account for years and now i can finally play them #i can get back to subnautica too!!!! and finally finish out we happy few!!!#anyway im gonna go continue to be insane about this machine i love computers theyre so fun

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sun-roach · 3 months

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You do one (1) thing and your brain immediately drifts off daydreaming about the future possibilities for like hours, instead of working to achieve that dreamed future

WHY CAN IT NOT SHUT THE FOOK UP AND JUST DO

#worse is its not only when you do smth #its daydreaming 24/7 #its exhausting #annoying #guilting #like pls focus?????#we can daydream after achieving the goal pls #my brain is just a leafs game with fucked up line ups #no success/goals we only hit posts #power play is the serotonin/dopamine boost that ends up being used for the wrong thing #or wrong side in this scenario

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