why do the things we used to enjoy now give us less pleasure

[pashanimair]

The truth is, none of us enjoy things the way we used to.
As kids, we could play soccer for hours and never get bored, a tiny piece of chocolate was enough to make us happy.
Now we watch millions of videos, play endless games, drown ourselves in screens and yet the satisfaction is zero.
Why Because our brains are drowning in a swamp of dopamine.
Dopamine is the brain’s reward system. Back then, it would rise with the simplest things.
Now our brains are under constant bombardment: scroll tiktok, get likes on instagram, level up in a game, hanging out at the org.
The dopamine rain never stops. The result? Our brain builds tolerance.
Today, walking outside, reading a book, having a conversation none of it feels like anything because our dopamine threshold has shot through the roof.
Small things don’t give us pleasure anymore. We need something faster, harder, more extreme just to feel alive.
But here’s the irony that more is never enough.
Dopamine is constantly deceiving us. It sells us the illusion of happiness, but all we’re left with is emptiness.
The more stimuli we chase, the quicker we get bored. In the end, everything turns meaningless.
We were happier before because our brains were clean.
Now we’re slaves to dopamine. If we want to feel joy again, we have to break dopamine’s chains.
But let’s be honest most of us never will

Hijacked by the Feed: Social Media Neuroengineering-Induced Digital Anhedonia - PMC

Social media platforms have evolved from communication tools into hyperstimulating digital environments that directly engage reward and attention networks in the brain. Emerging neuroimaging studies reveal that heavy use, particularly among ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Liking, Wanting and the Incentive-Sensitization Theory of Addiction - PMC

Rewards are both ‘liked’ and ‘wanted’, and those two words seem almost interchangeable. However, the brain circuitry that mediates the psychological process of ‘wanting’ a particular reward is dissociable from circuitry that mediates the degree to ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Dopamine Enhances Expectation of Pleasure in Humans - PMC

Human action is strongly influenced by expectations of pleasure. Making decisions, ranging from which products to buy to which job offer to accept, requires an estimation of how good (or bad) the likely outcomes will make us feel [1]. Yet, little is ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

@Slayfer @bp_framepill78 @BigBallsLarry @MogsGymMaxx @Orka

 

[pashanimair]

@Gomez @elkkkk @grilldaddy❤️ @unon
@selfascender

 

[SoundnVision]

Dopamine decreases every year until death .

 

[unon]

@Gomez @elkkkk @grilldaddy❤️ @unon
@selfascender

Well so we blaming reels and tictok then

 

[Resistance.]

Mirin

 

[MogsGymMaxx]

The truth is, none of us enjoy things the way we used to.
As kids, we could play soccer for hours and never get bored, a tiny piece of chocolate was enough to make us happy.
Now we watch millions of videos, play endless games, drown ourselves in screens and yet the satisfaction is zero.
Why Because our brains are drowning in a swamp of dopamine.
Dopamine is the brain’s reward system. Back then, it would rise with the simplest things.
Now our brains are under constant bombardment: scroll tiktok, get likes on instagram, level up in a game, hanging out at the org.
The dopamine rain never stops. The result? Our brain builds tolerance.
Today, walking outside, reading a book, having a conversation none of it feels like anything because our dopamine threshold has shot through the roof.
Small things don’t give us pleasure anymore. We need something faster, harder, more extreme just to feel alive.
But here’s the irony that more is never enough.
Dopamine is constantly deceiving us. It sells us the illusion of happiness, but all we’re left with is emptiness.
The more stimuli we chase, the quicker we get bored. In the end, everything turns meaningless.
We were happier before because our brains were clean.
Now we’re slaves to dopamine. If we want to feel joy again, we have to break dopamine’s chains.
But let’s be honest most of us never will

Hijacked by the Feed: Social Media Neuroengineering-Induced Digital Anhedonia - PMC

Social media platforms have evolved from communication tools into hyperstimulating digital environments that directly engage reward and attention networks in the brain. Emerging neuroimaging studies reveal that heavy use, particularly among ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Liking, Wanting and the Incentive-Sensitization Theory of Addiction - PMC

Rewards are both ‘liked’ and ‘wanted’, and those two words seem almost interchangeable. However, the brain circuitry that mediates the psychological process of ‘wanting’ a particular reward is dissociable from circuitry that mediates the degree to ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Dopamine Enhances Expectation of Pleasure in Humans - PMC

Human action is strongly influenced by expectations of pleasure. Making decisions, ranging from which products to buy to which job offer to accept, requires an estimation of how good (or bad) the likely outcomes will make us feel [1]. Yet, little is ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

@Slayfer @bp_framepill78 @BigBallsLarry @MogsGymMaxx @Orka

Great thread

 

[BigBallsLarry]

killing myself before 30 as dopamine hits its peak (it's only down from there)

 

[elkkkk]

The truth is, none of us enjoy things the way we used to.
As kids, we could play soccer for hours and never get bored, a tiny piece of chocolate was enough to make us happy.
Now we watch millions of videos, play endless games, drown ourselves in screens and yet the satisfaction is zero.
Why Because our brains are drowning in a swamp of dopamine.
Dopamine is the brain’s reward system. Back then, it would rise with the simplest things.
Now our brains are under constant bombardment: scroll tiktok, get likes on instagram, level up in a game, hanging out at the org.
The dopamine rain never stops. The result? Our brain builds tolerance.
Today, walking outside, reading a book, having a conversation none of it feels like anything because our dopamine threshold has shot through the roof.
Small things don’t give us pleasure anymore. We need something faster, harder, more extreme just to feel alive.
But here’s the irony that more is never enough.
Dopamine is constantly deceiving us. It sells us the illusion of happiness, but all we’re left with is emptiness.
The more stimuli we chase, the quicker we get bored. In the end, everything turns meaningless.
We were happier before because our brains were clean.
Now we’re slaves to dopamine. If we want to feel joy again, we have to break dopamine’s chains.
But let’s be honest most of us never will

Hijacked by the Feed: Social Media Neuroengineering-Induced Digital Anhedonia - PMC

Social media platforms have evolved from communication tools into hyperstimulating digital environments that directly engage reward and attention networks in the brain. Emerging neuroimaging studies reveal that heavy use, particularly among ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Liking, Wanting and the Incentive-Sensitization Theory of Addiction - PMC

Rewards are both ‘liked’ and ‘wanted’, and those two words seem almost interchangeable. However, the brain circuitry that mediates the psychological process of ‘wanting’ a particular reward is dissociable from circuitry that mediates the degree to ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Dopamine Enhances Expectation of Pleasure in Humans - PMC

Human action is strongly influenced by expectations of pleasure. Making decisions, ranging from which products to buy to which job offer to accept, requires an estimation of how good (or bad) the likely outcomes will make us feel [1]. Yet, little is ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

@Slayfer @bp_framepill78 @BigBallsLarry @MogsGymMaxx @Orka

sadly the truth,good thread, thats why i decided to quit all shorts form content spend more time outside and quit org as soon as i ascend

 

[wojak]

The truth is, none of us enjoy things the way we used to.
As kids, we could play soccer for hours and never get bored, a tiny piece of chocolate was enough to make us happy.
Now we watch millions of videos, play endless games, drown ourselves in screens and yet the satisfaction is zero.
Why Because our brains are drowning in a swamp of dopamine.
Dopamine is the brain’s reward system. Back then, it would rise with the simplest things.
Now our brains are under constant bombardment: scroll tiktok, get likes on instagram, level up in a game, hanging out at the org.
The dopamine rain never stops. The result? Our brain builds tolerance.
Today, walking outside, reading a book, having a conversation none of it feels like anything because our dopamine threshold has shot through the roof.
Small things don’t give us pleasure anymore. We need something faster, harder, more extreme just to feel alive.
But here’s the irony that more is never enough.
Dopamine is constantly deceiving us. It sells us the illusion of happiness, but all we’re left with is emptiness.
The more stimuli we chase, the quicker we get bored. In the end, everything turns meaningless.
We were happier before because our brains were clean.
Now we’re slaves to dopamine. If we want to feel joy again, we have to break dopamine’s chains.
But let’s be honest most of us never will

Hijacked by the Feed: Social Media Neuroengineering-Induced Digital Anhedonia - PMC

Social media platforms have evolved from communication tools into hyperstimulating digital environments that directly engage reward and attention networks in the brain. Emerging neuroimaging studies reveal that heavy use, particularly among ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Liking, Wanting and the Incentive-Sensitization Theory of Addiction - PMC

Rewards are both ‘liked’ and ‘wanted’, and those two words seem almost interchangeable. However, the brain circuitry that mediates the psychological process of ‘wanting’ a particular reward is dissociable from circuitry that mediates the degree to ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Dopamine Enhances Expectation of Pleasure in Humans - PMC

Human action is strongly influenced by expectations of pleasure. Making decisions, ranging from which products to buy to which job offer to accept, requires an estimation of how good (or bad) the likely outcomes will make us feel [1]. Yet, little is ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

@Slayfer @bp_framepill78 @BigBallsLarry @MogsGymMaxx @Orka

good read high iq

 

[The Grinch]

You get used to everything, when you get used to something, it get’s boring

 

[Gomez]

The truth is, none of us enjoy things the way we used to.
As kids, we could play soccer for hours and never get bored, a tiny piece of chocolate was enough to make us happy.
Now we watch millions of videos, play endless games, drown ourselves in screens and yet the satisfaction is zero.
Why Because our brains are drowning in a swamp of dopamine.
Dopamine is the brain’s reward system. Back then, it would rise with the simplest things.
Now our brains are under constant bombardment: scroll tiktok, get likes on instagram, level up in a game, hanging out at the org.
The dopamine rain never stops. The result? Our brain builds tolerance.
Today, walking outside, reading a book, having a conversation none of it feels like anything because our dopamine threshold has shot through the roof.
Small things don’t give us pleasure anymore. We need something faster, harder, more extreme just to feel alive.
But here’s the irony that more is never enough.
Dopamine is constantly deceiving us. It sells us the illusion of happiness, but all we’re left with is emptiness.
The more stimuli we chase, the quicker we get bored. In the end, everything turns meaningless.
We were happier before because our brains were clean.
Now we’re slaves to dopamine. If we want to feel joy again, we have to break dopamine’s chains.
But let’s be honest most of us never will

Hijacked by the Feed: Social Media Neuroengineering-Induced Digital Anhedonia - PMC

Social media platforms have evolved from communication tools into hyperstimulating digital environments that directly engage reward and attention networks in the brain. Emerging neuroimaging studies reveal that heavy use, particularly among ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Liking, Wanting and the Incentive-Sensitization Theory of Addiction - PMC

Rewards are both ‘liked’ and ‘wanted’, and those two words seem almost interchangeable. However, the brain circuitry that mediates the psychological process of ‘wanting’ a particular reward is dissociable from circuitry that mediates the degree to ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Dopamine Enhances Expectation of Pleasure in Humans - PMC

Human action is strongly influenced by expectations of pleasure. Making decisions, ranging from which products to buy to which job offer to accept, requires an estimation of how good (or bad) the likely outcomes will make us feel [1]. Yet, little is ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

@Slayfer @bp_framepill78 @BigBallsLarry @MogsGymMaxx @Orka

i tried dopamine detox for 3 days at the start of the year it was very helpful for me surely if the detox was longer enjoyment from simple things would be greater
also deleted tiktok off my phone and stopped watching short form content from that point it is a small thing but it did much for me
​

 

[The Grinch]

Dopamine decreases every year until death .

Not really, only if you don’t go outside

 

[Terrortheplug]

dnr

 

[pashanimair]

dnr

 

[Gomez]

dnr

faggot are you retarded once a somewhat more high effort/iq thread is being posted you type dnr instead of engaging in a conversation

 

[luca_.]

Thats why i snort meth and watch more and more TikTok’s so I can get more dopamine

 

[Terrortheplug]

faggot are you retarded once a somewhat more high effort/iq thread is being posted you type dnr instead of engaging in a conversation

what's high iq to you is low iq to me

 

[pashanimair]

@valency 2.0 @Yeagerist @BeanCelll @KeepCopingLads @isegrim314

 

[KeepCopingLads]

The truth is, none of us enjoy things the way we used to.
As kids, we could play soccer for hours and never get bored, a tiny piece of chocolate was enough to make us happy.
Now we watch millions of videos, play endless games, drown ourselves in screens and yet the satisfaction is zero.
Why Because our brains are drowning in a swamp of dopamine.
Dopamine is the brain’s reward system. Back then, it would rise with the simplest things.
Now our brains are under constant bombardment: scroll tiktok, get likes on instagram, level up in a game, hanging out at the org.
The dopamine rain never stops. The result? Our brain builds tolerance.
Today, walking outside, reading a book, having a conversation none of it feels like anything because our dopamine threshold has shot through the roof.
Small things don’t give us pleasure anymore. We need something faster, harder, more extreme just to feel alive.
But here’s the irony that more is never enough.
Dopamine is constantly deceiving us. It sells us the illusion of happiness, but all we’re left with is emptiness.
The more stimuli we chase, the quicker we get bored. In the end, everything turns meaningless.
We were happier before because our brains were clean.
Now we’re slaves to dopamine. If we want to feel joy again, we have to break dopamine’s chains.
But let’s be honest most of us never will

Hijacked by the Feed: Social Media Neuroengineering-Induced Digital Anhedonia - PMC

Social media platforms have evolved from communication tools into hyperstimulating digital environments that directly engage reward and attention networks in the brain. Emerging neuroimaging studies reveal that heavy use, particularly among ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Liking, Wanting and the Incentive-Sensitization Theory of Addiction - PMC

Rewards are both ‘liked’ and ‘wanted’, and those two words seem almost interchangeable. However, the brain circuitry that mediates the psychological process of ‘wanting’ a particular reward is dissociable from circuitry that mediates the degree to ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Dopamine Enhances Expectation of Pleasure in Humans - PMC

Human action is strongly influenced by expectations of pleasure. Making decisions, ranging from which products to buy to which job offer to accept, requires an estimation of how good (or bad) the likely outcomes will make us feel [1]. Yet, little is ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

@Slayfer @bp_framepill78 @BigBallsLarry @MogsGymMaxx @Orka

just deprive your brain of any dopamine related activities

 

[CookiekingFAN]

The truth is, none of us enjoy things the way we used to.
As kids, we could play soccer for hours and never get bored, a tiny piece of chocolate was enough to make us happy.
Now we watch millions of videos, play endless games, drown ourselves in screens and yet the satisfaction is zero.
Why Because our brains are drowning in a swamp of dopamine.
Dopamine is the brain’s reward system. Back then, it would rise with the simplest things.
Now our brains are under constant bombardment: scroll tiktok, get likes on instagram, level up in a game, hanging out at the org.
The dopamine rain never stops. The result? Our brain builds tolerance.
Today, walking outside, reading a book, having a conversation none of it feels like anything because our dopamine threshold has shot through the roof.
Small things don’t give us pleasure anymore. We need something faster, harder, more extreme just to feel alive.
But here’s the irony that more is never enough.
Dopamine is constantly deceiving us. It sells us the illusion of happiness, but all we’re left with is emptiness.
The more stimuli we chase, the quicker we get bored. In the end, everything turns meaningless.
We were happier before because our brains were clean.
Now we’re slaves to dopamine. If we want to feel joy again, we have to break dopamine’s chains.
But let’s be honest most of us never will

Hijacked by the Feed: Social Media Neuroengineering-Induced Digital Anhedonia - PMC

Social media platforms have evolved from communication tools into hyperstimulating digital environments that directly engage reward and attention networks in the brain. Emerging neuroimaging studies reveal that heavy use, particularly among ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Liking, Wanting and the Incentive-Sensitization Theory of Addiction - PMC

Rewards are both ‘liked’ and ‘wanted’, and those two words seem almost interchangeable. However, the brain circuitry that mediates the psychological process of ‘wanting’ a particular reward is dissociable from circuitry that mediates the degree to ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Dopamine Enhances Expectation of Pleasure in Humans - PMC

Human action is strongly influenced by expectations of pleasure. Making decisions, ranging from which products to buy to which job offer to accept, requires an estimation of how good (or bad) the likely outcomes will make us feel [1]. Yet, little is ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

@Slayfer @bp_framepill78 @BigBallsLarry @MogsGymMaxx @Orka

This is lowkey real I miss when the world was more exciting

 

[Mike456]

The truth is, none of us enjoy things the way we used to.
As kids, we could play soccer for hours and never get bored, a tiny piece of chocolate was enough to make us happy.
Now we watch millions of videos, play endless games, drown ourselves in screens and yet the satisfaction is zero.
Why Because our brains are drowning in a swamp of dopamine.
Dopamine is the brain’s reward system. Back then, it would rise with the simplest things.
Now our brains are under constant bombardment: scroll tiktok, get likes on instagram, level up in a game, hanging out at the org.
The dopamine rain never stops. The result? Our brain builds tolerance.
Today, walking outside, reading a book, having a conversation none of it feels like anything because our dopamine threshold has shot through the roof.
Small things don’t give us pleasure anymore. We need something faster, harder, more extreme just to feel alive.
But here’s the irony that more is never enough.
Dopamine is constantly deceiving us. It sells us the illusion of happiness, but all we’re left with is emptiness.
The more stimuli we chase, the quicker we get bored. In the end, everything turns meaningless.
We were happier before because our brains were clean.
Now we’re slaves to dopamine. If we want to feel joy again, we have to break dopamine’s chains.
But let’s be honest most of us never will

Hijacked by the Feed: Social Media Neuroengineering-Induced Digital Anhedonia - PMC

Social media platforms have evolved from communication tools into hyperstimulating digital environments that directly engage reward and attention networks in the brain. Emerging neuroimaging studies reveal that heavy use, particularly among ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Liking, Wanting and the Incentive-Sensitization Theory of Addiction - PMC

Rewards are both ‘liked’ and ‘wanted’, and those two words seem almost interchangeable. However, the brain circuitry that mediates the psychological process of ‘wanting’ a particular reward is dissociable from circuitry that mediates the degree to ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Dopamine Enhances Expectation of Pleasure in Humans - PMC

Human action is strongly influenced by expectations of pleasure. Making decisions, ranging from which products to buy to which job offer to accept, requires an estimation of how good (or bad) the likely outcomes will make us feel [1]. Yet, little is ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

@Slayfer @bp_framepill78 @BigBallsLarry @MogsGymMaxx @Orka

For me it isnt like that yes I like doomscrolling but I dont see any point in reading or anything else

Girls dont give a fuck about me reading Kafka and normies will look at you weird

Also I would love to play football or something but I dont have friends

 

[Never Get Up]

I hate this forum.

 

[SoundnVision]

Not really, only if you don’t go outside

Obviously if you're a fucking shit in loser you're gonna be depressed and fuck your brain.
Assuming you live a normal life you still get less pleasure from things than when you were really young, that's life.

 

[The Grinch]

Obviously if you're a fucking shit in loser you're gonna be depressed and fuck your brain.
Assuming you live a normal life you still get less pleasure from things than when you were really young, that's life.

Because you get used to the things you do regulary. If you constantly try new things it’s different

 

[looksmaxxed]

i never cry about losing interest and not having fun, there is an entire galaxy of novel things to do, including robbing banks

seems like you just lack imagination and/or skill

 

[silently_said]

hedonic treadmill

 

[pashanimair]

i never cry about losing interest and not having fun, there is an entire galaxy of novel things to do, including robbing banks

seems like you just lack imagination and/or skill

Yeah go ahead and rob a bank and that'll be the last dopamine you ever get

 

[Panzram]

The truth is, none of us enjoy things the way we used to.
As kids, we could play soccer for hours and never get bored, a tiny piece of chocolate was enough to make us happy.
Now we watch millions of videos, play endless games, drown ourselves in screens and yet the satisfaction is zero.
Why Because our brains are drowning in a swamp of dopamine.
Dopamine is the brain’s reward system. Back then, it would rise with the simplest things.
Now our brains are under constant bombardment: scroll tiktok, get likes on instagram, level up in a game, hanging out at the org.
The dopamine rain never stops. The result? Our brain builds tolerance.
Today, walking outside, reading a book, having a conversation none of it feels like anything because our dopamine threshold has shot through the roof.
Small things don’t give us pleasure anymore. We need something faster, harder, more extreme just to feel alive.
But here’s the irony that more is never enough.
Dopamine is constantly deceiving us. It sells us the illusion of happiness, but all we’re left with is emptiness.
The more stimuli we chase, the quicker we get bored. In the end, everything turns meaningless.
We were happier before because our brains were clean.
Now we’re slaves to dopamine. If we want to feel joy again, we have to break dopamine’s chains.
But let’s be honest most of us never will

Hijacked by the Feed: Social Media Neuroengineering-Induced Digital Anhedonia - PMC

Social media platforms have evolved from communication tools into hyperstimulating digital environments that directly engage reward and attention networks in the brain. Emerging neuroimaging studies reveal that heavy use, particularly among ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Liking, Wanting and the Incentive-Sensitization Theory of Addiction - PMC

Rewards are both ‘liked’ and ‘wanted’, and those two words seem almost interchangeable. However, the brain circuitry that mediates the psychological process of ‘wanting’ a particular reward is dissociable from circuitry that mediates the degree to ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Dopamine Enhances Expectation of Pleasure in Humans - PMC

Human action is strongly influenced by expectations of pleasure. Making decisions, ranging from which products to buy to which job offer to accept, requires an estimation of how good (or bad) the likely outcomes will make us feel [1]. Yet, little is ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

@Slayfer @bp_framepill78 @BigBallsLarry @MogsGymMaxx @Orka

Nothing will ever feel as good as it used to when you were young and fresh. That includes sex, if you lost your virginity after 16-17 it will not be as good as it could have been.

 

[bp_framepill78]

Crazy to think tge more we chase the less we get over time

 

[prescient]

Kinda nostalgia circle jerk.

I still enjoy playing video games, watching series, eating quality chocolate etc. even though im not satisfied with my life.

I dont use any social media platform. (idk if youtube counts, i watch rarely)

 

[pashanimair]

Kinda nostalgia circle jerk.

I still enjoy playing video games, watching series, eating quality chocolate etc. even though im not satisfied with my life.

I dont use any social media platform. (idk if youtube counts, i watch rarely)

but not as much as before

 

[Latinus]

While I don't like romantizing the past, sometimes I miss those times when everything felt more intense, where I could concentrate in something for hours without thinking of how much I'm missing for being offline.

Things will never be the same again.