• Tonava@sopuli.xyz
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    11 hours ago

    The only gambling I do is buying lottery tickets when I’m having the worst urges to kill myself. A little trick to wait just a bit longer. “You can wait until you get the results, it’s only couple days”, and then the worst urge manages to pass in that time. It’s pretty pathetic

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      11 hours ago

      I think that’s actually a pretty neat trick. So long as not winning doesn’t feel even more crushing.

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      10 hours ago

      I stopped smoking weed during the week so that I had something to look forward to on the weekends. It’s pretty pathetic

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        7 hours ago

        That’s smart, it’s a form of dopamine loading, you deny yourself immediate rewards and that builds anticipation, also it lowers your baseline dopamine so that even small rewards feel meaningful, this way you stay off the headonism treadmill and conserve your weed which saves money

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      11 hours ago

      I feel the same way with benedryl in that I think of all this shit, fuck shot, but I don’t look at it cuz that illegal in my places, so I just think in darkness as the benedryl make happening better tho my gemson doesnt get hard anymore…