Dopamine after an accomplishment? Nah.
this post was submitted on 23 May 2025
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I usually feel anger at myself that it took that long/wasn't better/something else my brain had decided to keep me from getting any good brain chemicals
"How much longer do I have to do this shit? I'm too afraid to live, and more afraid to die. Well, not afraid of a painless death. Fuck, I'm bored."
Im quite sure I dont have ADHD, and I can absolutely relate. When I finally wrote my last exam of my highschool everyone was kinda hyped afterwards and I was like "and now? That's it?"
I'm no brainologist but I wonder if things like this might be more related to autistic cognition. There seems to be something similar in the space of not attaching the same significance to events others find emotionally charged.
I was quite sure I didn’t have ADHD, too.
Not feeling a sense of accomplishment is not normal. You deserve better. Just check into it, okay?
No finished project without some force that provided the focus to get it done.
How can any feeling of accomplishment fill the mind when there is the bad feeling of being forced?
I don't even get the sense of relief. I could stop 1 second short of finishing and feel no difference.
For me the relief comes from finally being able to let go of the guilt I felt for not getting it done before. Maybe you don’t feel guilty so you don’t get the relief after the guilt?
Well maybe if someone paid those MTX's you would get that sense of PRIDE and ACCOMPLISHMENT 😤😤
it's an older meme sir, but it checks out
Isn’t that one of the major symptoms of OCD?
ADHD and 'tism too.
I know the post is a joke but this has high impact on our lives. You don't develop a drive for certain things unless you feel rewarded. For a lot of us we put in all the work but never get the reward. It's fucking hell.
For me and many others it's even the opposite: we are rewarded with a bad mood after we do the thing
Yes, and the ever-present "I should've done it THAT way, goddamn, I probably screwed up..."
Expectations aren't being fulfilled.