Dopamine Responsibly

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Sleep ain't cheap! Sleep is a luxury for people with No dependents and the time to prioritize.
Breathwork
Meditation
Exercise
Sleep
I think we might need to add a few more axises, as we're missing one for "potency" and one for "accessibility". Sleep and exercise tend to require a large chunk of uninterrupted time and focus. Breathwork and meditations great for getting through a short-term spike in stress but significantly less potent than caffeine, food, or alcohol. Quality therapy is good precisely because it is supposed to be highly potent in relatively small doses. But, even more than cost, its often something a prospective patient struggles to find.
Social media and consumerism are addictive because they are so heavily immersive, which is useful when you're attempting to block anxiety out. Meanwhile, Learning and Hobbies can require a certain degree of focus that someone staring down a panic attack has difficulty bringing to bare.
- *axes
  
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  I wonder if axises will be considered correct one day, kind of like what happened with indices and indexes.
- Even a little exercise does a lot already. Just five minutes of stretching, jumping around, dancing, or push-ups does wonders. Just as with breathwork and meditation, exercise can be done several times a day. Duration can be varied as well from 1 minute to 20.
  
  Even a little exercise does a lot already.
  Anything is better than nothing. But you're fooling yourself if you think a guy popping squats for five minutes a day is going to compare to someone with a full hour and comfortable accommodations for a yoga session. Hell, the difference between 10 min and 20 mins is really substantial in terms of how my back feels at the end of it.
  from 1 minute to 20
  Come on. You can barely get your pulse up inside a minute. That's not any kind of workout.
With the price of housing I think sleep should be listed as a high-cost activity
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- She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie.
- You ever tried it?
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtTHfOBbYuk&themeRefresh=1&theme=dark
I have a reservation about the Y-value for “Hobbies.” 😁
- It should probably be a smear that extends the entire height of the graph. I like birding, which can be totally free, and Magic:TG, which can be a pit that consumes many thousands of dollars.
You and I must have different hobbies
No citation needed for overt pseudo-science.
https://judbrewer.substack.com/p/the-dopamine-myth-it-doesnt-make
Needs to be another axis representing how “easy” it is to show if it requires any effort to do
- It's basically the opposite of addictive. Addictive stuff is easy, because it quickly becomes a "need" not just something you theoretically want to do but can't really be bothered right now.
  Even 'fun' stuff like TV shows, I can 'want' to catch up on shows, or finish the series I was loving, but if its down to choosing and making myself get round to it, I won't. But when suddenly I get a hyper focus on some old show and I binge forty episodes in a weekend it's 'easy'. What's hard is stopping, which I guess means I'm kinda in addict mode (until I overdo it and get board and abandon the watchthrough a few episodes from the end).
- I got one that is easy and actually saves you money. Foraging wild fruits. Looking at making some sloe jelly soon, ordered some cheesecloth and just waiting for that to arrive so I can strain the juice.
you forgot sex
- Depending on their situation, I think everyone would put their sex dot in a unique position, and none of them would be wrong.
  
  It's SO expensive, in my experience. How are people having sex multiple times a week at $1,000 a pop!? I guess it's one of those things only for the wealthy, like everything else.
- Ah yes, here's the updated graph after plotting all the points where "sex" can go:
  (You may need to be in light mode to see it better)
Wait... people get dopamine from exercise?!
- It's just a meme. Literally not science at all. Not even close.
- I feel it more now that I'm exercising unmedicated (against my wishes, but oh well). Anyway, I'm pretty much raw dogging everything, so when I do my little exercise routine with the dumbbell by my desk, I'm surprised at how noticeably better I feel.
  
  People do be different.
- It's pretty hard to leave gym in worse mood than you arrived in.
  
  My buddy dropped a weight plate on his middle finger and severed it right below the nail.
  
  We could use any other torture method just as effectively.
What does sleep or meditation have to do with dopamine?
- It's all pseudo-scientific nonsense.
If social media was so addictive why am I not on it right now?
- It's quite convenient and self-serving to not label Lemmy as social media.
You forgot drugs!
- And porn. Two of the most destructive things in my life so far.
  
  Especially when combined. You can end up in a Stimfap marathon that lasts several days without sleep.
  
  Porn can be healthy, and can be enjoyed responsibly. But then, so can be many other things.
Therapy more expensive than hobbies?
- I can't think of that many hobbies that cost more per hour than therapy does.
  
  40k models
- in america
I'd argue that processed food (really, ultra processed food) is much more addictive and much less cheap then the chart implies
Ah, but you've forgotten the most crucial item. Listening to "Boyfriend gets hit by a meteor and fucking does ASMR".

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