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It's like my brain has become a psychic miser and every mental energy expenditure must be sufficiently justified before allocation. Any action that doesn't have a guaranteed dopamine ROI is rejected...
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The irony is that I end up wasting a lot of my mental energy up on rationalizing with my brain about doing stuff. I would accomplish so much more if I could just shut that stupid voice up and not feel...
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The second irony is that constantly worrying about whether something will be sufficiently enjoyable to be worth the effort is almost guaranteed to make the task not enjoyable. The classic problem of...
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I don't know how get myself out of this stupid feedback loop in my mind, because even ignoring my own internal chatter takes mental energy. I just end up spiralling into depression if I try to do...
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I feel like this is a relatively recent thing for me too. I'm pretty sure I never had this voice asking for justification until the pandemic happened. I get the sense that there's a trauma thing...
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pessimism, cynicismThe events of 2020 and 2021 broke my spirit, and I may never recover. I don't know how someone can live through all of that and still believe that our society can accomplish anything...
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The best I've been able to do is ignore the signs of impending doom as much as possible, not think about the future any more than necessary, and enjoy what I can of the present.But enjoying the present...
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pessimism, cynicism, ADHD copingIt's not that my own doomerism is at the front my mind and that's what's stopping me from enjoying the present. It's that back when I still believed the future could be...
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pessimism, cynicism, ADHD copingMy entire life has been a series of crushing realizations that something I believed was important was a lie. The pandemic was the final straw of my optimism in tech and...
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pessimism, cynicism, ADHD copingI retrospect I see that so many of the coping strategies I had found to help deal with my ADHD were built upon that idea. Once that brick was kicked out of the...
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Not only am I familiar with the story, I consider it a personal passion and my life's workhttps://youtu.be/sg0SmgoSMg4
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Sometimes I wish I could have my memory selectively wiped so I can enjoy video games as much as I did when I was a kid. Or maybe that's just me missing a time when I could spend the entire day...
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Is anyone else afraid to let themselves become too immersed in something, out of fear that hyperfixation will commandeer their mind and completely fuck over their life? Because that's how I feel about...
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It makes it really hard to enjoy life when the things that bring you joy are also likely to be hazardous to functioning as a responsible adult.
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It's kind of wild that it's a norm to assign a baby to a position in the social hierarchy before they are even born.
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They even give the kids matching uniforms so everyone else knows which social class they are in. Talk about some fascist shit.
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I'm trying to actually wake up at my alarm this morning, but basically didn't get any sleep last night and holy shit I'm so tired.But fuck you, Brain. This is what you get for not letting me sleep when...
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My sleep schedule has been absolutely fucked and it needs a hard reset.Unlimited caffeine has been authorized for today, with the requirement that I have to wake up at my alarm and I cannot take a...
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