/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11931255
>How does one fry their dopamine receptor
By listening to internet retards who learned the word "dopamine" and became insufferable fuckwits screaming about HURR DURR DOPAMINE RECEPTORS DOPAMINE ADDICT DOPAMINE FAST REEEEEEEEEEEE HURR as if they just discovered some grand new scientific breakthrough
Hang yourself

>>11931380
Based

>>11931255
Wrong. Too little manganese / too much iron screws the dopamine receptors.
Copper is needed for using dopamine, so it accumulates, rises to unnatural levels, but cannot be used.

the dopamine-centers of my brain are Newark Winter Grey.

ah, you're retarded. go become a dietician and rope yourself.

>>11931255
>tfw ocd and general anxiety because my genes don't produce as much serotonin as they should and I've been on SSRIs since I was 7

kill me

>>11931763
okay? why are you blogposting on a science board. contribute or gtfo

>>11931255
Just take copious amounts of amphetamines like I did during college.

>>11931804
Why are you complaining on a science board?

>>11931924
science says that you need to keep pilling yourself to survive and eventually the effects of said pills will stop working altogether. there's your science you dumb mentalcel.

>>11931936
Well I'm happy for you

>Triggerd by acts of long term satisfaction
LSD blocks your path

>>11932031
>implying LSD doesn't give you that

>>11932037
yeah, but its the easy way

I take Zoloft because I guess my brain doesn't produce enough serotonin even though I make 150k a year and exercise everyday.

>>11931255
Does serotonin really trigger gratitude? Is this the science behind a good lsd trip?

>>11931255
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv-ODnbbP7U

>>11931255
Dopamine is responsible for enforcing reward seeking behaviour, it's not the reward itself. You can't become addicted to it, it is what causes addictions. If your dopamine receptors were 'fried' by which I assume you mean desensitized, then you would find yourself unmotivated to engage in pleasurable activities, but you would find those activities no less pleasurable.

>>11932216
are you happy

>>11932236
kek

>>11931255
You fell for some /pol/ memes, as a young man you can whack it every day and if anything it will actually have a positive effect on your brain

>>11931255
>lifting
>no short term satisfaction
>muh brain receptors
>muh gratitude
Ok.

>>11933270
It will have no effect at all in the brain, but it keeps your prostate healthy.

>>11933270
>>11935037
Fucking jews I swear

>>11935100
Wrong board. Try >>>/pol/

our brains are supposed to get screwed up doing incentives...

the self-improvement related thing is to focus on the things that bring us success, and avoid doing stupid wasteful things

it can help to leave off hungry('edging?' No Coomer! Well, sort of... that's the general idea, if you can apply thinking outside of your multiple daily fapping) , rather than always satisfy to the point of mindless channel-surfing boredom, to be process-oriented rather than results-oriented, and of course the fundamentals; Sleep, Routine, Diet

>>11931255
There's no such thing as frying a receptor. You do not release dopamine by staring at something, no, not even porn. You release it in anticipation that you're either going to eat, or you're either going to cum. The only windows of actual dopamine release across your day are the 20 minutes before each meal, and the 20 minutes of jerking off and opening tabs. Video games, movies, passive staring at porn pictures on 4chan - all of that has zero effect on it because there's no anticipation towards a defined goal, rather, a nihilistic drifting through the day so it ends faster. Addiction to these activities does not exist and you're conflating the act of finding it novel and interesting, i.e your desire for exploration as a normal healthy male, with the state of an actual addiction that's supposed to make you brain repeat it tomorrow because you got a caloric or reproductive benefit. You got neither.

>>11931409
I'm interested.

I get lots of copper from unsweetened cocoa, and lots of iron from grass fed red meat. I also used to do a bag of baby spinach a day and it made me feel way better. Could this be linked to manganese?

>>11931255
I fried my dopamine receptors by masturbating on weed regularly (but not always daily) for like a year and a half. Now I don't feel any pleasure unless I'm drunk. Whoops

>>11931255
try getting into idle games, and try playing 2 at the same time, then slowly insrease the number.
Go to a casino with money you can't really afford to lose. Then win.
Have 3 browsers open with 2+ windows for each and 10+ tabs on at the same time in each window.
And be confined in the same place while the terror from the deep lurks outside for enchanced effect.

>>11935125
How do you explain a 40-year old who's been on FB for over 10 years and still constantly falls into the depression it causes her? How do you explain the soap opera effect, where women would even let their children get hurt just to catch what was going on? How do you explain "gaymers" dying with ruptured intestines while playing games on a computer? The dopamine hit was clearly greater there than the pain from their insides.
Nihilistic drifting, yeah. That's the withdrawal symptoms.

>>11931951
>I'm happy

Yeah right LOL

>>11935207
I did this, but it really didn't effect my pleasure centers though it was tough to stop because of how insanely pleasurable it was.

>>11935500
You're lucky. It was amazing though. I always thought orgasms that made you scream were a meme until I tried it high

>>11935505
No doubt. I didn't totally get away with it though, I managed to grind my teeth during orgasm enough to cause minor damage lol

>>11931763
Bro, I've been in the same boat. Stop taking them. Gotta remember they don't increase serotonin they control it. You'll never feel happy or sad or anything at all on them just meh. When I stopped music would give me crazy goose bumps and driving my supercharged regal made me literally high

>>11932216
>make 20k a year
>produce more than enough serotonin
I'll sell you some of my serotonin for a bit of that $$

dont ever rage and get pulled in by cops
they feed you schizo meds and that does the same shit

fuck you life, you owe me

>>11932216

Mostly I am now. I used to be really agitated before. Now I can still laugh and enjoy life, I'm just not as on edge all the time.

>>11936108

I pay like $100 a year for the pills, 50mg. Small dose.

I used to make 20k a year. Not much difference in happyness cause of it. Just less worry about being homeless.

>>11931255
Mix haloperidol with meth.

I started taking L-Methyfolate a few years ago as a supplement. It seems to have helped me some. My mood and emotions are more regular. I sleep better (but still poorly). Before I was basically non-functional from bouts of serious depression and terrible sleep that left me falling asleep standing/driving. I subsisted that way for years, but since starting with l-methyfolate have been able to finish a degree. Not sure if just a coincidence.

That being said, though I don't have serious bouts of depression anymore like I used to most of my life, I do sometimes get overcome with anxiety with things are too stressful or overwhelming. Additionally, I am less sensitive to positive emotion, too. Not just negative emotion, but all emotion. I don't get the same deep feeling of empathy or deeply moved experience from music. Sometimes certain songs or shows I went to were nearly transcendental, I now feel cut off from this energy. Additionally, I'm less interested in sex and romance. I rarely feel lonely except when I am extremely stressed.

Did I fry my brain by taking a supplement/medical food to help treat my depression, /sci/? Or am I just getting old? Age 28 if it matters. Been using l-methylfolate for about 3 years. It was a slow, long term, and subtle change.