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Stop frying your dopamine receptors

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  • #32
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Wedge of Limes wrote: »
    You should find something more productive to do with your time.

    A bit of self-awareness mightn't go astray yourself.


  • #33
    80j2lc5y7u6qs9
    Closed Accounts Posts: 957 ✭✭✭80j2lc5y7u6qs9


    Wedge of Limes wrote: »
    I wouldn't rule out dopamine in other activities, such as youtube videos.
    Wedge of Lime is Op and you are Wedge of Limes? . is there a dopamine kick there?


  • #34
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Kaiden Dry Orchid wrote: »
    Wedge of Lime and Wedge of Limes?

    Originality is he forte.


  • #35
    80j2lc5y7u6qs9
    Closed Accounts Posts: 957 ✭✭✭80j2lc5y7u6qs9


    Felix Beautiful Wiretap wrote: »
    Than re reg'ing to troll? Probably.

    Obsessive behaviour can depress you.


    One has to laugh.
    🤡
    good for the receptors


  • #36
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users Posts: 18,075 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    The police of vice and virtue will clean up your decadent ways western pigs.


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  • #37
    lola85
    Closed Accounts Posts: 667 ✭✭✭lola85


    Seems we only use 10% of our brains according to scientists I think we have plenty of dopamine spare to burn.


  • #38
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users Posts: 33,015 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Wedge of Lime wrote: »
    I believe that the incidence of anxiety and depression is more common today due to people over stimulating their dopamine receptors on a continual basis. People are rarely still and doing nothing. They are either obsessively scrolling on their phone, listening to music, eating, drinking, watching youtube videos, masturbating to porn, reading etc.

    I believe this dulls peoples enjoyment of life as their dopamine receptors are desensitized. This is just a hunch, I know some of you will be asking for a thesis on the subject, I don't have one to give you.

    NO, but you wil have an article for the paper in a few days, correct?

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #39
    [Deleted User]
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    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    NO, but you wil have an article for the paper in a few days, correct?

    He's gone. But he'll be back again soon no doubt. In one form or another.


  • #40
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users Posts: 8,905 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    I’m with the OP. This scene in Hannibal put me right off frying dopamine receptors.

    CL-Hannibal.jpg

    I only grill them now, preferably on the George Foreman.


  • #41
    osarusan
    Registered Users Posts: 16,545 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    I thought it was policy to nuke the entire thread when it was started by a serial rereg.


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  • #42
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users Posts: 16,323 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Ward J. Littell wrote: »
    He's gone. But he'll be back again soon no doubt. In one form or another.
    Wedge of lemon is my guess, I hope I'm right for the dopamine hit.
    https://forumofgames.com/index.php

    >>> Staying Alive <<<



  • #43
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Leg End Reject wrote: »
    Wedge of lemon is my guess, I hope I'm right for the dopamine hit.

    He could surprise us all and venture outside the fruit world. Wedge of cheese perhaps.


  • #44
    [Deleted User]
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    Wedge of Lime wrote: »
    I believe that the incidence of anxiety and depression is more common today due to people over stimulating their dopamine receptors on a continual basis. People are rarely still and doing nothing. They are either obsessively scrolling on their phone, listening to music, eating, drinking, watching youtube videos, masturbating to porn, reading etc.

    I believe this dulls peoples enjoyment of life as their dopamine receptors are desensitized. This is just a hunch, I know some of you will be asking for a thesis on the subject, I don't have one to give you.

    The ironic thing about masturbating to porn is that of all the things you listed, its probably the only scenario where someone is actually paying attention to other people and focusing their eyes on them :D


  • #45
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users Posts: 33,015 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Ward J. Littell wrote: »
    He's gone. But he'll be back again soon no doubt. In one form or another.

    Well, whatever he has to write ain't gonna write itself. Maybe the deadline wa a bit closer than we thought.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #46
    Greentopia
    Registered Users Posts: 3,221 ✭✭✭Greentopia


    Felix Beautiful Wiretap wrote: »
    Personally, I like plenty of strong coffee and a food fry.

    My abundant free time and living surrounded by nature must be counterbalancing the effects.

    More a tea drinker myself but I used to like a nice cup of strong Greek coffee in the morning when I lived somewhere with a big Greek community. That's the one you want if you're looking for the best health benefits from coffee. Turkish would be similar.

    Perfectly suited for people with abundant free time too as it's meant to be sipped verrrry slowly as the old guys do in Greece. :)

    Served with or without sugar in tiny espresso cups. Plain and simple. Lower in caffeine and lots of antioxidants and polyphenols and good for the heart. Tastes great and simple to make in a briki-little traditional coffee pot. No hipster baristas, expensive machines or pods necessary.

    Wish I could find it here. :(


  • #47
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    Wedge of Lime wrote: »
    I believe that the incidence of anxiety and depression is more common today due to people over stimulating their dopamine receptors on a continual basis. People are rarely still and doing nothing. They are either obsessively scrolling on their phone, listening to music, eating, drinking, watching youtube videos, masturbating to porn, reading etc.

    We'll agree to disagree on this one squire, were all adults here. At the moment,as in right now this minute, I'm scrolling through me phone, drinking, listening to music and snorting cocaine. I'm no scientist but me dopamine levels are probably gone poxy haywire but, and I mean this in all due respect, have ya notin more ****in serious to be worried about?


  • #48
    GRACKEA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 129 ✭✭GRACKEA


    Greentopia wrote: »
    Wish I could find it here. :(

    Amir's Delights in Millenium Walkway in Dublin.
    Or you can buy the equipment and coffee yourself in Ayla Foods on Capel Street nearby.


  • #49
    vriesmays
    Registered Users Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭vriesmays


    Most anxiety people have rejected their religion. They want to be free with their life choices but have no-one to guide them other than the PC media.


  • #50
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,071 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    lola85 wrote: »
    Seems we only use 10% of our brains according to scientists I think we have plenty of dopamine spare to burn.
    Nope, we use all of our brains most of the time. The 10% thing is a myth.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • #51
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    Two weeks free of orgasms and stimulants such as caffeine is enough to reset your D2 receptors. Give it a go and you'd be amazed how good you'll feel afterwards. When people are doing the whole drysh!te January thing I usually just lay off the coffee for a few weeks in Jan instead. Not only does overall mood improve substantially after the initial withdrawal, but thereafter if you use it sparingly, every cup of coffee tastes better and lasts you longer in terms of stimulation.

    I forget where I came across the two week figure, it was a PubMed article, but I'll link it if I can find it. Was either 14 days or 10 days, so two working weeks or two full weeks. Groups online which encourage abstention from things like sex and stimulants in order to refresh one's dopamine receptors have coalesced around a 90-day figure, but I've never found any literature supporting such an extreme reset and it strikes me that a lot of people will look at that figure, balk, and decide not to bother giving it a go at all. Try the two weeks and see how you get on - personally, I haven't returned to having daily coffee since doing this in Jan, I now limit it to two days per week (sometimes three) and I'm still able to maintain a caffeine high for hours after a single cup, where I once would have one with breakfast and a top up around lunchtime, and not even get that much of a kick from it.


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  • #52
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,478 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    What works for one person might be unsuitable for lots of others.


  • #53
    Greentopia
    Registered Users Posts: 3,221 ✭✭✭Greentopia


    GRACKEA wrote: »
    Amir's Delights in Millenium Walkway in Dublin.
    Or you can buy the equipment and coffee yourself in Ayla Foods on Capel Street nearby.

    Ooh thank you! Will take a look next time I'm in Dublin. :)


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