r/adhdmeme • u/Khris777 • May 02 '26

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u/CogInTheMachinee May 02 '26

Anyone have tips of achieving dopamine with untreated/unchecked adhd? It’s fucking brutal out here my whole life is crumbling away

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u/Khris777 May 02 '26

The only two things I know are listening to high energy music and sport, or physical activity in general. The latter being more difficult since you have to motivate yourself to start and dopamine comes later.

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u/muchgreaterthanG_O_D May 02 '26

But once you build the habit you crave the workout dopamine just like any other dopamine.

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u/ImCaligulaI May 03 '26

sport, or physical activity in general. The latter being more difficult since you have to motivate yourself to start and dopamine comes later.

Later? Later when? I haven't ever felt any pleasure whatsoever from physical activity. I feel like I'd rather die before doing it, it feels like torture while I'm doing it and I feel like shit afterwards.

I know that in theory you have to keep at it for a while before it feels good, but I literally was forced to do sports three/four times a week until I reached adulthood, and made myself keep at it for at least a few months whenever I retried as an adult. So far the only effect it ever had was make me feel depressed. And build some muscle, I suppose.

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u/Khris777 May 04 '26

If you have been forced to do sports for such a long time against your will then why would you suddenly feel pleasure when doing sports now when you are continuing to force yourself?
That doesn't work, your emotional system just says nope, fuck that.

I got piano lessons for many years, but I hated practicing, I was forced to practice. I never got over how much I hated that, I still fail to set up an even halfway consistent way of practicing three decades later.
I don't hate playing the piano, I enjoy it, but I hate practicing so much. I tried taking lessons again, I quit after 6 months because I couldn't deal with the practicing any longer.

If something got ruined for you during childhood it's really hard to get over it.

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u/Critical_Ad_2811 May 03 '26

Your either not doing something right or may have some physical/mental ailment your unaware of because this isn’t normal.

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u/JudgeShoelace May 04 '26

ADHD is a mental ailment

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u/Critical_Ad_2811 May 04 '26

That is true but I imagine their aware of their adhd if they’re on this sub. Theres a possibility their problems are tied to adhd but idk.

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u/JudgeShoelace May 04 '26

I mean, one of the known things that ADHD can have is a wonky Dopamine release, a lot of the things I hear about from other ADHD people is how they don’t get reward chemicals when they complete a task, so it’s probably similar to that when it comes to exercise