• Malyca@lemmy.zip
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    8 days ago

    The previous works because you’re putting yourself in a state of anxiety and creating adrenaline as a result. Your brain can run on adrenaline instead of dopamine, so it does that. If you learn to cope this way you’ll be fucked in old age like me though. In addition to adrenaline, you’re filling your body with cortisol and that will destroy you from within. Don’t do it. Just go get the damn ADHD medication.

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      9 days ago

      So true. I’m like Superman during a crisis, and a slug any other time. I sometimes fall in to the trap of subconsciously manufacturing a crisis just so I can get things done. It’s not a great way to live.