#low dopamine

[justagemini19]

Just realized I went from the potential success child in my family to the disappointment… but my family doesn’t even know how disappointing I really am

[rachymarie]

Guys it has come to my attention that i don't think i even actually put any coffee in my coffee this morning how am i even functioning, I must be running on fumes (more likely placebo) huh? We spied a Brazilian coffee at supermarket for cheaper than the cheap brands so gonna use that after meds breakfast so hyped about that!

Was feeling really uninspired about eating today until I realized that I got a new pouch soup to try. Fish & White wine chowder is the flav of the day. it's been a hot minute since I had a chowder (or any seafood other than canned tuna/salmon -cue delusions about mercury poisoning lol yay) last time was when i worked at a fish n chip shop and got free seafood chowder it was the best. and I'm kinda really excited?

Sometimes it's the little things in your day that can bring you some joy that helps to go on

There's something exciting that sometimes samefoods (mine's been soup for like a year or more, cos with the unfair loss of my regular support worker as per the needs assessment assessor's demands, i stopped getting out of the house as much to be able to get sushi anymore) can be changed up a little within whatever your sensory needs allow for 😁

[ace-roses]

There's a lot of things that I want to do right now

There's a lot of things that I need to do right now

But there's very little things that I'm gonna do right now

[pinkrelish]

Let me tell you how I SPRINTED to Canva when I got a ~vision~ for yes policy covers (an eddie version and an adrie version...)

I'M SCREAMING SCREAMING SCREAMING 😭 THE BRACELETS ARE SO FRICKIN SWEET I'M 😭 IT'S PERFECT 😭 THE LITTLE MOUSE AND THE CHARMS AND THE SCRIBBLES WITH CRAYONS ADRIE DEFINITELY TESTED ON THE TRAILER'S WALLS AND DOORS FIRST

and, y'know, thinkin' about eddie's callused hands being all greased up from those wrenches in the first one, his thick forearms from crankin' tools all day 🥴

this was so kind of you!! they're so sweet, and i love you! thank you so much! i'm giving you so many smooches.

[difeisheng]

Difang thought for the day, after a one night stand (it was supposed to be casual, spoiler alert: it wasn't) how long would it take for them to actually start dating and how it would happen?

oho! bless these two for trying to have a casual one night stand, honestly, because fang duobing and di feisheng both don't do anything by halves and loving someone can be no different. i don't know exactly how long it would take them to get it together and date but it would be relatively short, i think. made a post once about how they're both straightforward people, so the chances of prolonged denial or mutual pining are low, and they'd also hate miscommunication. maybe they sleep together a few more times in a i-refuse-to-call-this-a-recurring pattern (they can't help coming together over and over) until one of them Has to say something and ask the other what's between them. maybe it's fang duobing who says it, looking down at dfs while sat in his lap, wondering at how life leads people down paths like this. maybe it's di feisheng, staring at this boy and thinking he could drown in him if they got closer than this but he could be alright with that. and from there (because the answer was swift, perhaps it wasn't sure but it was enough for both of them to know what the other wanted) the relationship turns into something more defined, more certain, and something with a future.

thanks for this ask!

[the-cursed-wife]

The hot space farmer 🌒❤️‍🔥🌾

Rebel Moon

[xmcu-fietro]

anyone know any tips for hacking into that sweet adhd hyperfocused state of mind when you’re depressed and apathetic about life 🙃

[rusquared]

bimonthly request to everyone struggling w energy/executive dysfunction/etc but wanting to create things: try origami. im so serious.

[shapoopy178]

"Likes don't do anything" wrong likes give me serotonin don't be a hater

[rachymarie]

Ok breakfast is ate, meds are tooken, second coffee down and now I will deal with the blankets for real though I can feel myself approaching to talk myself out of it already 😬

I just have to look forward to the good things, like eating my boiled egg for second breakfast, opening my new Togepi Squishmallow (more on that later), then climbing into my clean bed all fresh and sparkly clean after a quick shower to listen to ASMR with the knowledge that I got the covers out to dry 💞

Then hopefully manage to wake up before 5pm sundown to get them in off the line before The Dampening comes out to play. Heck, if I could wake up by 3am (and with actual energy) that'd be even better cos I could get to work on my much awaited (lol) photoshoot with the recent Squish additions before the natural light runs away. Tho I also have to wash my hair, which is a High Spoons task so we'll see how we go.

And then later hopefully I'm able to make my highly-regarded English muffin pizzas for us to watch something on the big screen with.

Of course, avolition is always at work tryna stop me from getting my planned tasks done and make those rewards seem like nothing so don't mind me just trying to psych myself up

It seems like a lot to get done to me but I like to start the day aiming high, but the thing is that unlike "regular" people I won't beat myself up if I don't get everything on the list done today. I will congratulate myself for anything I managed to get done, because chronically ill life is hard af

[tiny-smallest]

Many, many Oliver outfits, post-rescue! I set out on a mission to draw him in every outfit I've previously drawn him in! And added some new ones, too.

I still have more to come eventually but I'll call it here for now! Eventually these will end up in a reference sheet slkjdfnskjdfn

Eventually.

A cult survivor and escapee! Oliver is one of my oldest ocs and kind of bounces from world to world skljfn he's an easy oc to moor to any playground I want to play in so he's seen a lot of sandboxes. The specifics of the cult, what he suffered, and who rescues him and why changes from fandom to fandom. Someday maybe I'll create a world for him (and his friends, other ocs who tend to also be thrown into different stories with him) specifically but for now he kinda just ends up in the universe of whatever hyperfixation that's recently grabbed me.

He tends to be extremely broken at the start with very little sense of self, since all he did for most of his life was surviving. As he spends time with whoever saved him he grows to meet and understand himself for the first time- coming to terms with being gay, embracing stuff he had an inkling that he liked but avoided because cult, finding new things he enjoys, learning what it feels like to be safe and loved. It's a lot of hurt-comfort scenes tbh which is my favorite stuff to write skldjfn

[amethystsoda]

I can tell the under stimulated/low dopamine summer brain is kicking because I can’t stop checking app notifs and can’t FOCUS

[anonymous-harpy]

Okay, final skimmed over the list of oneshot ideas I had written down. Trying to finish the ones that are half complete before approaching the requests I have.

^ both of those are me atm because MMM i d u n n o

[killemwithkawaii]

Mitch, look! I think you might like it!

...goddamnit you know what i needed this today thank you Meadow 🍓🐇💖

[ossifer-bones]

it's genuinely horrifying to me how often people on this site will reblog sourceless claims about poorly understood medical topics. i feel like it's kind of a no brainer that you shouldn't trust someone trying to lecture you on neuropharmacology unless they can somehow verify what they've said? and definitely don't listen to them if they decide to describe dopamine as 'the happy chemical', holy shit.

it's no secret that there's a great deal about the human body that the majority of practicing professionals gets so severely wrong that it isn't funny—the fact BMI and calories are still taken remotely seriously is disgusting—and even more that we don't know besides that, but i feel like that isn't an excuse to take what is very likely to be misinformation at face value, even if you're only reblogging it because you agree with the sentiment. the problem with the kind of posts i see circulating is that they have the right ideas behind them but they're presented along with very suspect information?

like yeah, emotional highs are usually followed by a crash and you should take steps to prepare for that! but then this sort of logical statement is accompanied with unsubstantiated ideas about how the body works, which really doesn't sit right with me; i think we should be capable of spreading awareness of coping strategies and the like without trying to 'back it up' with claims that are almost always unsourced and very debatable, or just outright wrong.

also if you're going to try and educate people on how their bodies work? provide sources. if you want to educate people then give them somewhere to start from, don't just make claims veiled in medical terminology.