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Deanna🌹This is the place where I either go insane or post flowers,there is no inbetween.

[shisasan]

3 June, 1939 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov

[frailbug]

you think that you're so alone in the world then you read literature from hundreds of years ago and you realize that other people have always felt this way

[dajo42]

need a polite way to say "im not engaging in a discussion on this topic with you because the conclusions you have reached are based on so many interwoven layers of misconceptions it would be easier to just like, hard reset your whole brain, just start over as a baby and try again"

[strawberry-plant]

Gosh i’ve had this blog for 16 years😲😅🥳

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Quote of the day

[baffledtreesquid]

I’m seeing a lot of people saying this post changed their brain chemistry, and as a neuroscientist I wanted to say yes!!! Yes it does!

Wanting something requires dopamine signaling, but liking something doesn’t.

If you have a mental illness/disorder that affects dopamine, you might feel that you don’t want to do the things that you like. You do still like them. You will appreciate having done them.

Let your likes guide you.

(If you want to read more, here’s one experimental paper about it. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5171207/ This theory called the incentive-sensitization theory was originally created to explain behaviors in addiction but can be applied elsewhere as well)

Rewards are both ‘liked’ and ‘wanted’, and those two words seem almost interchangeable. However, the brain circuitry that mediates the psych

[amyamychan]

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Black text on a white background. It reads:

"Focus on your likes, not your wants.

You may not want to exercise, but you like how it makes you feel.

You may not want to write, but you like the feeling of accomplishment.

You may not want to wake up early, but you like the calm beauty of morning.

Wanting is the desire you feel before doing something. Liking is the satisfaction you feel after doing something. Let your likes guide you.

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[the-haiku-bot]

You may not want to

write, but you like the feeling

of accomplishment.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[anxietyproblem]

[8nin]

i don’t have a five year plan because every two years i realize i need a different life

[girls4losers]

i gotta remember this

[kosmogrl]

[natureell]

[juno-infernal]

sometimes the tragedy of distance is very simple. i want to get groceries with you

[cansu-m]

[superkursunaskr]

[heylsgowt]

[seabeck]

Fly agaric

[authenticity2025]

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