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EvilJoven
Mar 18, 2005

NOBODY,IN THE HISTORY OF EVER, HAS ASKED OR CARED WHAT CANADA THINKS. YOU ARE NOT A COUNTRY. YOUR MONEY HAS THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND ON IT. IF YOU DIG AROUND IN YOUR BACKYARD, NATIVE SKELETONS WOULD EXPLODE OUT OF YOUR LAWN LIKE THE END OF POLTERGEIST. CANADA IS SO POLITE, EH?
Fun Shoe
Every time I have a mushroom trip I come out of it a slightly better person.

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Bar Patron
Jun 12, 2015

It's always seemed to me that to be happy, it would help to be able to not compare yourself with others so much. And just be content with the things you have. Society is sort of built around working a stressful and lovely job so that you can have some form of 'status' and be able to impress people you don't actually care about. I walk past a help centre for mentally disabled folks on lunch everyday, and the people in there always seem so happy. They always say hello and have smiles on their faces. Because they don't give a gently caress about our anxiety gymnastics that we put ourselves through. They probably just live in the moment, and appreciate poo poo. But I dunno maybe they're all horribly depressed as well, but if they were I don't think I'd catch them as happy as they seem..

roomtone
Jul 1, 2021

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 25 days!)

y'know every time i quit vaping - usually make it a few days, trying just now hoping for the best - i notice quickly that my interest and enjoyment in things seems to go up. like i just get more out of them, at least during the moments when i'm not thinking 'gently caress i want to puff something' anyway, and i realised just now it's gotta be my dopamine levels readjusting so that, since a quick hit of nicotine isn't on the cards, i need to find something else to do to avoid being bored and suddenly i'm accessing parts of my brain i haven't touched in a while or that didn't register as enjoyable because i was vaping 24/7 along with my other vices.

it's pretty cool. i've been reading about dopamine etc the past few days and i think it's a good part of the mental puzzle to keep in mind when i'm wondering why i don't feel good or why i have no motivation.

ArmedZombie
Jun 6, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 2 hours!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr8ljRgcJNM

ArmedZombie
Jun 6, 2004
Probation
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ArmedZombie
Jun 6, 2004
Probation
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Justin Credible posted:

Understanding what controls desire and satisfaction and influences basically every thought process and action you take is probably a good place to start.

loving dopamine, man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmOF0crdyRU


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAaG34WfsC0

olives black
Nov 24, 2017


LENIN.
STILL.
WON'T.
FUCK.
ME.
have you tried jackin it, op

ROLEX VISION
Oct 3, 2014

dreams money can buy
I started enjoying life after I quit antipsychotics. gently caress every psychiatric drug.

olives black
Nov 24, 2017


LENIN.
STILL.
WON'T.
FUCK.
ME.

BIG AND PROUD posted:

I started enjoying life after I quit antipsychotics. gently caress every psychiatric drug.

:stare:

ROLEX VISION
Oct 3, 2014

dreams money can buy

If you want to live your life in a fog be my guest. I’ve literally used every class of psych drug.

But if you do that you will wake up realizing you haven’t done poo poo with your life.

They make you feel content with poo poo life. When you’re on them everything is grey and nothing brings you true joy. That’s why there’s broken people here suggesting you use MDMA along with antidepressants.

ClamdestineBoyster
Aug 15, 2015
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!
Oh thank god the Wellbutrin page is over. :negative:

Nigmaetcetera
Nov 17, 2004

borkborkborkmorkmorkmork-gabbalooins
Cannibalism.

Jomo
Jul 11, 2009
I figured out at some point in my late twenties that, for me, enjoyment shouldn't be equated to chasing happiness or a high. I still enjoy socialising, partying and doing hedonistic poo poo, but I realise the next day I'm back at baseline.

Instead I try to focus more on doing things that makes me feel "zen" (it's the closest word I can think of) like riding my bike or motorbike, surfing, diving or reading. For other people it might be playing the guitar, meditating, painting or playing with their dog. Something that clears and calms the mind, and you do for the sake of doing, without any imposed expectations (internal/external) or goal-posts e.g. "I have to get this good at guitar otherwise there's no point".

Idk, that's the best I can sum it up from my perspective.

olives black
Nov 24, 2017


LENIN.
STILL.
WON'T.
FUCK.
ME.

BIG AND PROUD posted:

If you want to live your life in a fog be my guest. I’ve literally used every class of psych drug.

But if you do that you will wake up realizing you haven’t done poo poo with your life.

They make you feel content with poo poo life. When you’re on them everything is grey and nothing brings you true joy. That’s why there’s broken people here suggesting you use MDMA along with antidepressants.

They kept me from jumping off a loving bridge because my brain wouldn't stop looping the most stupid and poisonous poo poo that my imagination could come up with.

I'm sorry that you had a bad time on yours, and I hope that you're doing well now. But encouraging people to go off their meds without medical supervision is really irresponsible.

ROLEX VISION
Oct 3, 2014

dreams money can buy

olives black posted:

They kept me from jumping off a loving bridge because my brain wouldn't stop looping the most stupid and poisonous poo poo that my imagination could come up with.

I'm sorry that you had a bad time on yours, and I hope that you're doing well now. But encouraging people to go off their meds without medical supervision is really irresponsible.

I’m glad they helped you and you didn’t jump off a bridge. Antipsychotics helped me when I was actively psychotic.

But psych drugs aren’t meant to be used long term and they help only in acute situations. I ate them for way too long and my life suffered as a result. The doctors talk about poo poo like ”lifelong illness” and most won’t allow withdrawing from meds which is why I had to do it on my own.

I disagree about it being irresponsible to talk about withdrawing. We are all adults here who can decide on their own life. To me it’s way more irresponsible to praise psychiatric drugs the way people these days do and not being able to see the harmful poo poo they do.

ROLEX VISION fucked around with this message at 09:27 on Sep 6, 2022

olives black
Nov 24, 2017


LENIN.
STILL.
WON'T.
FUCK.
ME.

BIG AND PROUD posted:

I’m glad they helped you and you didn’t jump off a bridge. Antipsychotics helped me when I was actively psychotic.

But psych drugs aren’t meant to be used long term and they help only in acute situations. I ate them for way too long and my life suffered as a result. The doctors talk about poo poo like ”lifelong illness” and most won’t allow withdrawing from meds which is why I had to do it on my own.

I disagree about it being irresponsible to talk about withdrawing. We are all adults here who can decide on their own life. To me it’s way more irresponsible to praise psychiatric drugs the way people these days do and not being able to see the harmful poo poo they do.

Fair.

Pajser
Jan 28, 2006
wellbutrin is a poisonous anger inducer and goons doing marketing for it is a disappointment

AEMINAL
May 22, 2015

barf barf i am a dog, barf on your carpet, barf
getting likes on twitter

old beast lunatic
Nov 3, 2004

by Hand Knit
Imagine a pie chart with equal parts masturbation substance abuse and video games. I mean c'mon we figured this out in like 2006

Smugworth
Apr 18, 2003

My friend told me William Henry Hairytaint seems to get an inordinate amount of pleasure from pulling the wings off bugs

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

Chinatown
Sep 11, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
Fun Shoe
riding bikes is fun op

Goddamn Hippy
Jan 18, 2006
You have to be cummed out of a millionaires wiener to enjoy life. Also you have to kill off the environment and blame it on the poors. Then you have to join a satanic cult and practice eating babies from the raped mothers of human traffic.

Oh and ice cream is really nice, i like rocky road!

SweetMercifulCrap!
Jan 28, 2012
Lipstick Apathy

Pajser posted:

wellbutrin is a poisonous anger inducer and goons doing marketing for it is a disappointment

It's the first antidepressant I've tried that seems to NOT induce anger, oddly enough

matti
Mar 31, 2019

good booze, good tunes, good company, lot of "me" time

les enfants Terrific!
Dec 12, 2008
brief stay at a psych ward helped me a lot op nothing quite like sitting in a hospital full of hosed up lives to help you realize your own isn't that bad

Literally A Person
Jan 1, 1970

Smugworth Wuz Here
Why so serious???





I'm the Joker.

Literally A Person
Jan 1, 1970

Smugworth Wuz Here
That's how I like to unwind OP

kntfkr
Feb 11, 2019

GOOSE FUCKER

les enfants Terrific! posted:

brief stay at a psych ward helped me a lot op nothing quite like sitting in a hospital full of hosed up lives to help you realize your own isn't that bad

if you're in the states, this will set you back a years wages

Literally A Person
Jan 1, 1970

Smugworth Wuz Here
Being totally Jokerfied and loving it

The Saucer Hovers
May 16, 2005

dont try and talk to me until ive had my morning run through the woods slashing at random trees with a dull machete screaming im the joker now, im jokerfied

Buce
Dec 23, 2005

have you tried being reincarnated as the dalai lama, op? I saw him give a speech once in Portland and he seemed more or less content.

Plan R
Oct 5, 2021

For Romeo
I enjoy life when I can sleep for more than four hours.

Mindblast
Jun 28, 2006

Moving at the speed of death.


Idk OP. Lean towards positive Nihilism? Figure out what you enjoy and go after that?

Literally A Person
Jan 1, 1970

Smugworth Wuz Here

The Saucer Hovers posted:

dont try and talk to me until ive had my morning run through the woods slashing at random trees with a dull machete screaming im the joker now, im jokerfied

Live, love, laugh, Jokerfied.

les enfants Terrific!
Dec 12, 2008

kntfkr posted:

if you're in the states, this will set you back a years wages

it helps to be unemployed and on medicaid, I suppose

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les enfants Terrific!
Dec 12, 2008
legitimately, though:

Have something that's just for you. Whether it's going to your favorite restaurant, getting a manicure, sitting around watching long form youtube essays, playing a game, getting a massage, whatever. Find something that you enjoy, that you can treat yourself to, and dedicate a day of the week or month for it.

even if everything leading up to that day is kind of lovely, you still have something nice waiting for you. a break, a breather.

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