You're addicted to dopamine my dudes. You're addicted to the abundance of instant gratification that comes from the endless cycle of internet, porn, vidyas, junk food, weed etc. It's as real and tangible as addiction to cigarettes, alcohol, heroin or any other substance.
What is the single one piece of advice you would tell an alcoholic? you need to quit it cold turkey. Deprive your brain of dopamine so it stops craving it. you will never be able to break the behavioral cycle unless you address the neurochemical dependence. Break the cycle.
I know. But what the fuck do I replace it with? Life is still unenjoyable
Angel Nelson
So what? What happens after I "fix" it?
Robert Flores
How the fuck do i do that OP
Jack Harris
what's the alternative? be a fat lazy slob for the rest of your life?
read the damn post user, there's literally a step by step.
Benjamin Carter
>>what's the alternative? be a fat lazy slob for the rest of your life? I repeat the other user's question: "so what?" Life sucks regardless, why make more work for yourself.
Just being a thin bored tidy nobody isn't better enough to be worth all the effort. The benefits that could make it worthwhile are possible, but they're outside one's own control, and the odds are seen to be too discouraging.
Xavier White
>You're addicted to dopamine my dudes literally everyone is. it's called being human. actually, no, it's called being a fucking mammal.
you will DIE if you don't have dopamine
>What is the single one piece of advice you would tell an alcoholic? you need to quit it cold turkey. no, they should TAPER OFF
>Deprive your brain of dopamine so it stops craving it. no, depriving yourself of dopamine is called
PARKINSONS DISEASE
you will crave it more if you have low dopamine
i lift weights and eat healthy. i still dont want to wageslave. fuck that
Eli Baker
>You're addicted to dopamine my dudes. You're addicted to the abundance of instant gratification that comes from the endless cycle of internet, porn, vidyas, junk food, weed etc. It's as real and tangible as addiction to cigarettes, alcohol, heroin or any other substance. I don't watch porn, eat junk food, or use any drugs though. I play vidya on hard, so the gratification is earned.
i hate people but lifting is fun (unless you injure yourself which i keep doing because i'm a mega-retard-faggot)
Dominic Bell
>lifting is fun how the fuck do you find it fun?
i've been lifting 3x a week for 6 months so far (on-off for 7 years) and its never been "fun" for me. not even once
nigger i would pay someone $1000 to somehow make me have "fun" lifting. it's shitty, it's basically like a form of torture really
t. about to go lift in 20 mins
Matthew Price
I agree with this user. I've heard a lot of Jow Forums people say that after a while working out becomes fun, or at least you don't mind it, because its just part of your daily routine. That was never once my experience, I never stopped hating it and every single time I lifted, ran, anything, I always had to force myself to do it. And while I was exercising I was constantly thinking "okay, how much longer before I'm done and I can stop this?"
I understand people who want to be in shape for some other goal and are determined enough to work out for that. Because they play a sport, work a physically demanding job, or, yes, to attract women. But I do not and never will understand the people who claim to enjoy it.
Liam Brown
About to go 90 days off the internet, starting at 4PM. AMA
Jaxson Campbell
>disabled with physical deformities and chronic pain >ugly >manlet >schizoid >asexual >mutilated >awful anxiety about every fucking thing Yet I'm supposed to take away the only things that give me joy in life? I'm confident if I did that I would legit just kill myself. All I have is escapism.
Landon Brown
What are you going to do all day, It sound interesting but I'm scared that I would go mad not knowing what to do.
Lift,meditate, read, cook, just try to find ways to be active, produce music. Should also be a lot easier if I find a job.
Carson Torres
All that work to be a better cog in a machine. user you failed
John Butler
What makes you say that? Stop hiding behind your defense mechanisms
Dominic Bell
Rn im taking a class and I'm busy almost everyday until 4pm, Still i feel like that until bedtime is a lot of time. And using internet can actually be useful for finding a job for exemple.
Adam Torres
modern life is difficult in that way. Everything in existence is trying to get you dependent on it, so they can make some moolah. TV wanted you to keep watching by serializing things, stretching it out, and normalizing it. Youtube is just TV but it's more accessible, and with less ads. Internet socialization is a way to get that social dopamine, but since you ain't with real people, it fades fast, leading to wanting more. Plus all this stuff is so accessible, that it easily takes you away from things you want to do or feel like you should be doing. Humans ain't powerful enough to overcome basic brain programming, and modern culture programs the shit out of your brain.
This isn't even delving into porn addictions, food addictions, drug addictions, etc, which all pervade modern culture. I wish I had more willpower, but ultimately, I make a lot of bad choices and succumb to my body.
Jason Cooper
I'll go on the internet if I have to use it to get a job, but I won't be on it to go on Jow Forums and consume media anymore.
Gavin Green
I'm not hiding behind anything. You can deprogram and lift as much as you want you are still just nobody, a drop in an ocean, a grain of sand in a dessert, your life would be utterly meaningless, you won't turn wheel of history not a tiny bit nor will anyone remember you. You just found another way to distract yourself until you die.
Asher Flores
Good luck user. Maybe I should try it.
Jack Baker
>internet, vidyas, cigarettes and alcohol The rest I can live without and after this weekends trainwreck of a drunkness, I'm considering cutting alcohol out aswell or I want to but it's not easy. Cigarettes will go away by itself once I stop drinking as I smoke the most then or when extremely bored. Internet and vidya would be the hardest and most likely impossible to tackle. Still I have been starting to work out a little at home which is cutting into my internet and vidya time so who knows.
Jayden Martin
>>stop being addicted to fun things >>atop enjoying fun things
Daniel Taylor
I went through this realization last year when I finally tried to integrate the normalfags at college. Forced myself to get out of my "shell", made some acquaintances, went to parties, etc. And it was pretty much disgusting. I'd rather be a NEET than doing this again. I'm not cut out for this.
Josiah Walker
this is very true, im interested in learning more about dopamine/serotonin.
I think the younger generation (true zoomers) are going to be beyond fucked from all the snapchat/5 sec youtube videos they consume
I have been reading books (bought about 10) the other day and spending time slowly going through them. I don't feel a whole lot better but I feel after a few months of this I might be on my way to being "repaired" so to speak
Justin Reed
wow so deep man how is the 9th grade?
Jacob Morales
how is life in teens/early 20s, brace yourself, cause quarter life existential crisis is coming
Oliver Price
That ain't much of a genius move. I think that most already knew that, you always need something to entertain yourself with, the entire thing is about choosing relatively healthy habits to bad ones. No shit. Also, guys did you know that stopping eating junk food and eat healthy improves your life? TEE HEE. He forgot to tell us to get more sunlight lmao. Life is pain. We need to disregard the good stuff to be happy, ironic isn't it? If this isn't some massive big fuck you to every conscious living being I don't know what is. People catch bad habits for a reason, life is legitimately shit and only few have a decent one, that is advice for normies, once again. There are some people who are legitimately dead end genetic material and normies still refuse to accept this, always sustaining the theory of 'iz onley yer foolt elemao'. I will repeat, THIS GARBAGE ONLY WORKS ON NORMIES WITH 'BAD HABITS'. Any robot worth their salt already knows this, there's no amount of brain science that can solve autismlords from being what we are, we already are wired a specific way, it's like telling certified geniuses to behave like dumb people, we could, they could, but it's never geniune behavior and it eventually wears you out. My life was shit before i even had access to internet and before mainstream porn was a thing(I don't even watch much of it anyway). I always had very limited vidya to play and haven't played 95% of the games that came out in the last 10 years. I don't have a dopamine addiction, i simply only ever had either neutral or bad experiences with everything, people outside the house, inside of it and even with myself and the stupid broken body I've been handled because my father couldn't be bothered to pull out of my 40+ yr old mother. I understand that nowadays this board is overrun by normies but jesus fucking christ on a crossstick this is garbage. What good would that do if most of our life was shit anyways.
Jordan Butler
>what's the alternative? *kchk chk* *BLAM*
Wyatt Hughes
>you will DIE if you don't have dopamine
the point is not to cut it out entirely and forever. but the sources of dopamine are so abundant that we have become completely desensitized to it. that's why you can spend an entire day loading up on it with vidyas, booze, junk food, porn etc. and still feel like complete shit. by abstaining for a length of time, the dopamine sensitivity will gravitate towards a healthier balance.
Christopher Garcia
OP mentions removing all posters or anything that reminds you of things you enjoy. so if you absolutely need internet to find a job, then create a separate work account where you will not see your usual bookmarks, icons, wallpaper etc. and keep it 100% work related.
