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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.
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I wonder if axises will be considered correct one day, kind of like what happened with indices and indexes.
Axix? Axex?
… and appendixes and appendices.
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.
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.
Any kind of physical movement is good and has noticeable effects.
The comparison isn’t perfection, but to not doing anything.
If you fool yourself into thinking you can scrape by on a bare minimum, eventually you’re going to rationalize yourself out of doing anything at all.
True! Also true that some people need to scale things up over a long time, like titration of medicines. Or binge an activity to maintain it over the long haul. Etc.
How is sleep considered cheap? You have to pay a monthly subscription for the right to sleep, it’s called rent.
Homeless people sleep too.
Yes they do, until they get arrested for being homeless, because sadly many police and politicians just don’t care. ☹️
When a homeless person becomes a prisoner, they sleep in prison.
Yep, on the taxpayer’s dime, unless it’s in Florida or one of the other states that mandate work in prison to pay off your own bills. Nothing is truly free.
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.
I have a reservation about the Y-value for “Hobbies.” 😁
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.
COCAIIIIIINNNNNNEEEEEEEEEEE!!!’
COKE COKE COKE CCCCCCOOOOOOOOCCCCCAAAAAIIIIINNNNEEEEEE!!!
She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie.
You ever tried it?
you forgot sex
Depending on their situation, I think everyone would put their sex dot in a unique position, and none of them would be wrong.
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.
Ah yes, here’s the updated graph after plotting all the points where “sex” can go:
(You may need to be in light mode to see it better)
Needs to be another axis representing how “easy” it is to show if it requires any effort to do
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).
You and I must have different hobbies
Wait… people get dopamine from exercise?!
I feel it more now that I’m exercising unmedicated (against my wishes, but oh well). Anyway, I’m pretty much raw dogging everything, so when I do my little exercise routine with the dumbbell by my desk, I’m surprised at how noticeably better I feel.
People do be different.
It’s just a meme. Literally not science at all. Not even close.
No citation needed for overt pseudo-science.
https://judbrewer.substack.com/p/the-dopamine-myth-it-doesnt-make
What does sleep or meditation have to do with dopamine?
It’s all pseudo-scientific nonsense.
With the price of housing I think sleep should be listed as a high-cost activity
You forgot drugs!
I’d argue that processed food (really, ultra processed food) is much more addictive and much less cheap then the chart implies
Sleep ain’t cheap! Sleep is a luxury for people with No dependents and the time to prioritize.
