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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 54 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)
[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

it's pronounced differently

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You could say that one opens up access while the while the other provides ax ease.

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago

One be heading in a new direction, the other is just beheading.

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[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Any kind of physical movement is good and has noticeable effects.

The comparison isn’t perfection, but to not doing anything.

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[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago (4 children)

How is sleep considered cheap? You have to pay a monthly subscription for the right to sleep, it's called rent.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 28 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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.

[–] baconmonsta@piefed.social 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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?

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago

Dopamine regulation as a whole could be considered "Dopamine Responsibly", the way I see it.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

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.

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[–] bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Homeless people sleep too.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yes they do, until they get arrested for being homeless, because sadly many police and politicians just don't care. ☹️

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's called shelter. What you do in this shelter is your choice...

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[–] SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I realised at the rate I go through shoes I have a subscription for my feet.

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[–] Octavio@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have a reservation about the Y-value for “Hobbies.” 😁

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] finitebanjo@piefed.world 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] Whitebrow@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Needs to be another axis representing how “easy” it is to show if it requires any effort to do

[–] Acamon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

It's basically the opposite of addictive. Addictive stuff is easy, because it quickly becomes a "need" not just something you theoretically want to do but can't really be bothered right now.

Even 'fun' stuff like TV shows, I can 'want' to catch up on shows, or finish the series I was loving, but if its down to choosing and making myself get round to it, I won't. But when suddenly I get a hyper focus on some old show and I binge forty episodes in a weekend it's 'easy'. What's hard is stopping, which I guess means I'm kinda in addict mode (until I overdo it and get board and abandon the watchthrough a few episodes from the end).

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

I got one that is easy and actually saves you money. Foraging wild fruits. Looking at making some sloe jelly soon, ordered some cheesecloth and just waiting for that to arrive so I can strain the juice.

[–] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

COCAIIIIIINNNNNNEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!'

COKE COKE COKE CCCCCCOOOOOOOOCCCCCAAAAAIIIIINNNNEEEEEE!!!!!!!!

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[–] Beacon@fedia.io 13 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 12 points 1 week ago

You and I must have different hobbies

[–] ashestoashes@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Depending on their situation, I think everyone would put their sex dot in a unique position, and none of them would be wrong.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Pika@rekabu.ru 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

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[–] abfarid@startrek.website 10 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Wait... people get dopamine from exercise?!

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[–] Blackout@fedia.io 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If social media was so addictive why am I not on it right now?

[–] Perspectivist@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago

It's quite convenient and self-serving to not label Lemmy as social media.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago
[–] cabb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

With the price of housing I think sleep should be listed as a high-cost activity

[–] petersr@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What does sleep or meditation have to do with dopamine?

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[–] Flying_Dutch_Rudder@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Perspectivist@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

And porn. Two of the most destructive things in my life so far.

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[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 3 points 1 week ago

I'd argue that processed food (really, ultra processed food) is much more addictive and much less cheap then the chart implies

[–] BorgDrone@feddit.nl 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Therapy more expensive than hobbies?

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[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

Ah, but you've forgotten the most crucial item. Listening to "Boyfriend gets hit by a meteor and fucking does ASMR".

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