• 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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    7 days ago

    Am I lacking dopamine because of depression or because I’ve done everything I like so much, I can’t get back to the dopamine levels my brain has grown accustomed to…? 🤔

    I’ve seen every movie I want. Played every game. Read every book. Done so much shit off my bucket list. I’m just straight up bored with reality now.

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      4 days ago

      Yep that’s me. I’ve already done everything I ever wanted and just being is insufficient.

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      6 days ago

      People have had similar experiences for least a couple thousand years.

      Ecclesiastes 1:8-9

      All things are full of labor; Man cannot express it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, Nor the ear filled with hearing. The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

      Or, as one translation put:

      Everything is futile.