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Sleep ain’t cheap! Sleep is a luxury for people with No dependents and the time to prioritize.
With the price of housing I think sleep should be listed as a high-cost activity
No citation needed for overt pseudo-science.
https://judbrewer.substack.com/p/the-dopamine-myth-it-doesnt-make
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COKE COKE COKE CCCCCCOOOOOOOOCCCCCAAAAAIIIIINNNNEEEEEE!!!
She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie.
You ever tried it?
Breathwork
Meditation
Exercise
Sleep
I think we might need to add a few more axises, as we’re missing one for “potency” and one for “accessibility”. Sleep and exercise tend to require a large chunk of uninterrupted time and focus. Breathwork and meditations great for getting through a short-term spike in stress but significantly less potent than caffeine, food, or alcohol. Quality therapy is good precisely because it is supposed to be highly potent in relatively small doses. But, even more than cost, its often something a prospective patient struggles to find.
Social media and consumerism are addictive because they are so heavily immersive, which is useful when you’re attempting to block anxiety out. Meanwhile, Learning and Hobbies can require a certain degree of focus that someone staring down a panic attack has difficulty bringing to bare.
Even a little exercise does a lot already. Just five minutes of stretching, jumping around, dancing, or push-ups does wonders. Just as with breathwork and meditation, exercise can be done several times a day. Duration can be varied as well from 1 minute to 20.
Even a little exercise does a lot already.
Anything is better than nothing. But you’re fooling yourself if you think a guy popping squats for five minutes a day is going to compare to someone with a full hour and comfortable accommodations for a yoga session. Hell, the difference between 10 min and 20 mins is really substantial in terms of how my back feels at the end of it.
from 1 minute to 20
Come on. You can barely get your pulse up inside a minute. That’s not any kind of workout.
Any kind of physical movement is good and has noticeable effects.
The comparison isn’t perfection, but to not doing anything.
If you fool yourself into thinking you can scrape by on a bare minimum, eventually you’re going to rationalize yourself out of doing anything at all.
*axes
I wonder if axises will be considered correct one day, kind of like what happened with indices and indexes.
… and appendixes and appendices.
Axix? Axex?
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it’s pronounced differently
You could say that one opens up access while the while the other provides ax ease.
One be heading in a new direction, the other is just beheading.
I have a reservation about the Y-value for “Hobbies.” 😁
It should probably be a smear that extends the entire height of the graph. I like birding, which can be totally free, and Magic:TG, which can be a pit that consumes many thousands of dollars.
How is sleep considered cheap? You have to pay a monthly subscription for the right to sleep, it’s called rent.
I realised at the rate I go through shoes I have a subscription for my feet.
How is sleep considered a source of dopamine?
A quick search yielded it helps reset and balance dopamine receptors but not that it provides any.
helps reset and balance dopamine receptors
I mean, its sort of like asking how a tune-up for your car provides transportation.
If you’re receptors are burnt out, your ability to process dopamine is severely inhibited.
I had the same thought about therapy. Like who says that’s a dopamine source? Feels like they just added random activities here. How about ice skating or baking as well?
Homeless people sleep too.
Anyone who has had to sleep rough (or just tried going camping without a tent) knows the relative value of four walls, a mattress, and a properly temperature-controlled room.
When I was about 12, I went camping with the church youth group. First day, it rained pretty hard for a couple hours. I left the tent door open the whole time. Everything was wet the whole trip. Sleeping while surrounded by water and wet things, is very uncomfortable. So, yes, all of these things are extremely important, and EVERY person should have access to all of these things.
Yes they do, until they get arrested for being homeless, because sadly many police and politicians just don’t care. ☹️
What does sleep or meditation have to do with dopamine?
It’s all pseudo-scientific nonsense.
You and I must have different hobbies
Addictive and sustainable aren’t opposites. If anything, addictiveness makes some things MORE sustainable. Coffee drinking is WAY more sustainable of a habit than exercise and meditation
This whole graph is nonsense
you forgot sex
Depending on their situation, I think everyone would put their sex dot in a unique position, and none of them would be wrong.
It’s SO expensive, in my experience. How are people having sex multiple times a week at $1,000 a pop!? I guess it’s one of those things only for the wealthy, like everything else.
Seriously though, I had times when condoms strained my budget quite a lot
It was like: do I buy this 12-pack or do I rather eat in the next 4 days?
of course it was condoms all the way
You forgot drugs!
And porn. Two of the most destructive things in my life so far.
Especially when combined. You can end up in a Stimfap marathon that lasts several days without sleep.
Porn can be healthy, and can be enjoyed responsibly. But then, so can be many other things.
Healthy implies something is good for you and I don’t think porn is but yes, it can be enjoyed responsibly in a way that there’s no noticeable harm. This however doesn’t apply to me. I go off the deep end.
Wait… people get dopamine from exercise?!
It’s just a meme. Literally not science at all. Not even close.
Yoda: “There is another.”
Star Wars Movie Marathon?
