Resorts to facebook shorts

Went to you tube .. 🤔

The normal pain of growth aka the human condition lol. We've all been there and we'll all be there again

That’s called the pre-contemplation stage; stage 1 of five in the cycle of change.

it’s the same reason why we seek youtube shorts and other similar distractions you know that large looming problem that you’re currently worrying about? ignore that for now and work on some easier problem instead, that way you at least get something done and might even work up the motivation to get some progress on the large issue. and if not, you still made progress on something useful and that’s definitively a win or if you don’t have the motivation to do anything now, you can make a plan for the future and increase future you’s chance of success with dealing with whatever you planned

@@asdfghyter thanks that really good advice

Hey, first off thank you for sharing. I learned a lot from this short and the replies like yours. I want to try out your technique, but my only concern is what happens after I meditate? If I'm trying to stop myself from indulging in cheap pleasures... I'm scared that I'll impulsively jump back to the cheap pleasures instead of doing the hard work after sitting with my boredom. What do you do to get yourself to draw that comic after sitting with your boredom... or does it actually get easier to chose your comic after "riding the wave" as Dr. K said?

@@Xaryn essentially by becoming bored you will prefer to do the hard thing than just sit there. So for instance sit with your thoughts for 30 minutes to an hour, then don't pull out your phone or hop on the computer. Leave your only options as do the goal or do nothing.

@@zoidsfan12 Thank you for taking the time to respond. That makes sense... I'm excited to try this out :D

@@Xaryn good luck my friend

How do you avoid cheap dopamine, when they are all around you and uou cant escape it. How do you manage the urge.

Look at the thoughts but try not to react emotionally to it, you must rationalise the thoughts, if they repeat continuously ask yourself honestly why & know that it will all be OK

the thought might seem logical but the psyche often is not logical. Your intellect is playing tricks on you and makes it seem like it's right. Listen to your intellect but don't believe it. You're addicted to stimulation and you should slowly start reducing that stimulation. A "dopamine detox" and spending time in nature might be helpful Get away from your phone. Your phone is a virus that's polluting your mind

your thoughts are external tho

If someone is a person's lifetime therapist, then they're not doing a good job lmao

Right?? When i was little and im bored, i read a book. And now reading is like a punishment of being bored of using my phone, and somehow it feels like torture

I think some people with psychosis never get bored because of constant stimulation from their own brain but I could be wrong

I went like 6 years with minimal boredom, it's just a state of mind you can have and it requires decent mental health and a creative mind

Tbh your body will adapt and make you bored. You can flood your brain with an infinite amount of stimulation but eventually it just all becomes white noise. You can be playing 4 games at once, listening to music, and having a conversation and your brain still go "god I'm so fucking bored". Been there done that. Your brain effectively works off tolerance. Like ie you can smoke weed every 2 hours and it will fuck you up at first but after a couple months you're not even able to get stoned anymore and you feel nothing. Same for stimulation, if you haven't played a game in a long time its the most engaging thing ever, but if it's your 30th day of logging 10 hours ut just feels like a job or a chore and you'd rather do anything else.

If your never bored then you probably meditate. You don’t have any addiction that is a good thing because then you can focus on what really matters which is personal growth. If you ever get to that point then good for you 👍

​​@@ElysiumGresit I am never bored. I don't understand boredom actually. 🤔 I just keep myself interested in everything. If there is nothing to do, then I just keep observing others, bird, trees, wind, whatever. Yeah, my mind is constantly active this way, but no, I'm not psychotic.😂

This and just overall throwing negative comments and self-deprecating comments non-stop

same man

I also do this, it makes my mind calmer and less fragmented. I don't think it's a problem that your mind plays music. Maybe your mind also has to process the music. Maybe your brain will get bored of the music an other thoughts will become more dominant.

I haven't been bored in over 10 years (I'm 20).

As someone with ADHD, I am chronically bored. Doesn't matter if I'm at work, at home, or with friends. Life is boring. Makes motivation really hard to stir up when nothing actually stimulates you that much. ADHD is basically chronic understimulation, so this makes sense. The body attempts to compensate through hyperactivity - stimulation using the body or daydreams. This results in long term issues of course, because the mundane aspects of life become difficult to force yourself to do, and because the stimulation isn't there, the reward for doing things isn't there, which means that habits don't form correctly either. Try being a fully functioning adult where you have no passion to do anything and are not mentally rewarded for doing things. ADHD is a horrible disorder and I really wish more people understood the depth of the disorder instead of passing it off as laziness or lack of discipline.

@@jazzyj7834 yeah.

@@jazzyj7834 i have been diagnosed with ADHD too and the must say chronic 247 boredom is the worst part of it. And no one understands it. People think i am being disrespectful because i am bored. I really wouldnt wish this on my worst enemy.

​@@jazzyj7834 Personality Deficits feel your pain.

And I'm never bored

Any healthy challenging hobby’s you’re interested in that you could dive into?

It is old content

That means you're generally always content / sufficiently stimulated

I understand both of you. I suggest trying to dopamine-detox. Very gently, dont torture yourself. Try it for a week and see how less bored you feel throughout the day. This will increase your baseline dopamine I believe, but don't take my word for it.

If nothing ever interests you, that sounds more like apathy or maybe depression. You could also be overstimulated by input, like f.x. constantly listening or watching videos. Many people with ADHD are very interested in specific things, often for a short amount of time, until they find a new thing. I get bored of things very fast, and in the end, I chose a job that I can do no matter what mood I am in. For me, that could be horticulture or maybe forklift driving.

That's not ADHD, either you haven't found your hobby where your ADHD takes over and gets obsessed or you have depression, but I'm no Dr. of course, just speaking from experience.

​@@drxzt you can't follow hobbies all day long ... Boredom seems to be a big issue for ADHD people. My daughter has this problem too. It s not a matter of depression. She just cannot get her brain interested in "ordinary" stuff - unless it gives a dopamin kick and then catches on.

@@sandra.helianthus what's ordinary to you? I can't mantain normal jobs because of the same reason, so I never get "ordinary" jobs, I push myself to make my creative hobbie a career and of course it's harder but how else am I going to enjoy life?

It helps you gain awareness of how your mind and body are signaling you to think and feel. And that enables you to be more deliberate in how you act on those thoughts and feelings, instead of giving in to impulse and spiraling out of control. In other words, you can be more in control of yourself if you pay attention to what’s pulling the strings internally. Outside stimulation isn’t bad though, it can be useful. However if you lean on it too heavily you become numb to it, and it becomes difficult to enjoy anything. Balance is key.