[FollowingTheDao]

> there is a difficulty modifier now on a lot of things where it’s like “what’s the point”.

That is becasue you are still lacking dopamine. One needs to erase all the dopamine stimulation in your life to truly recover. Go to a AA meeting and you will see everyone drinking and smoking saying they are "sober" and wonder why they relapse.

Learn to limit your rewards to slow, natural ones, like he says in the article. It will absolutely suck at first. It is not about the activity, it is about slowing down the strong dopamine pulses.

[Aurornis]

> That is becasue you are still lacking dopamine.

Dopamine doesn’t work like this. You don’t “run out” of dopamine by engaging in stimulating activities.

This is pop-science metaphor stuff, not actual dopamine science.

[ethbr1]

Parent should have more precisely said “over-activate dopamine receptors” instead of “run out”, but effectively it means the same thing — dulling an individual’s response to a set dopamine generating event via excess dopamine exposure.

[FollowingTheDao]

Yes, it is a metaphor. Not everyone can understand neurobiology so we use metaphors.

Define Lacking: not available or in short supply.

Lacking (I did not say "run out" you did, again exposing your bias) dopamine is exactly what causes the symptoms of Parkinson's. It is well known that people with impulse control disorders are more likely to get Parkinson's.

Even Dopamine Receptor Antagonists increase addictive behaviors.

Reports of Pathological Gambling, Hypersexuality, and Compulsive Shopping Associated With Dopamine Receptor Agonist Drugs https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...

You are accusing me of all or nothing thinking but that is not what I am doing. But you seem to think that Dopamine has nothing at all to do with anything yet there it is in our body. It must do something, yes?