Comment with one of your worst dopamine hijackers; something which takes over and hogs your dopamine system, and on New Years Day I’ll go through the comments and rank the top ten on how many upvotes they get and edit this post with the results as well as make a new post. Maybe even make a New Years Resolution based on it!
If there are any duplicates only the one with the most upvotes will be counted. Any comments/replies which are chat or reactions will obviously be disregarded from the final count.
I finally became more aware of this and realise mid-response that this is nonsense. But by then I’m invested.
My solution: A file “nobody-cares.txt” where I can paste it, which feels easier than just closing the tab.
Therapist says this is a fine first idea, but by doing so, I still attribute value to this nonsense. So next step is to just discard everything I had typed. Actually feels good sometimes.
Deciding not to do something mid-way through can really be a relieve, but i also have to make an active decision to disregard it. Usually the thought that pushes me from ‘i really have to do this’ to ‘i don’t have to do this really’ is along the lines of ‘i deserve my time of energy for something better then this’. As you say, the words only seem valuable because i attributed value to it in the first place.
Post the file