Start Maximizing Your Joy

Dr. K’s Guide to Mental Health explores Anxiety, Depression, ADHD, and Meditation

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[jenanimazed]

‘You’re gonna procrastinate anyway, might as well enjoy yourself’

Very true. I feel so called out but also so understood lol

[CrunchyKiwi]

Can we all just agree that this man is a treasure?

[qwinn]

About a yr ago I decided to actually try to be happy. Started dieting, exercising, and not putting any limits on how of often I do something healthy fun and putting restrictions on unhealthy fun. I’ve literally been living my best life.

[deppintt]

Maximizing your joy doesn't mean Maximizing your pleasure. It means allowing yourself to fully immerse in something positive without excessive worry or negative thoughts.

In other words, be present.

[J.Darwin]

True. Currently can't do college and stuck in limbo, thought about just making the most out of it, go outside and enjoy the spring, spend time with my family, have some fun and do something. Now I'm just anxiously stuck in my room seeing the days pass

[OxyWorgon]

“It’s like a Half Life.”
The real Half Life 3 was inside us all along.

[renoaheartilly]

the only doctor who actually understands the millennial life struggle 😂

[michaellarnach]

"lose the dimension of time" is such an underrated and seldom heard concept.

[sam.lipchutz]

I’m the opposite. I just want to minimize pain.

[nikeun]

thats what my therapist tells me when i come to her every week with deadlines piling up absolutely freaking out. i have gotten a bit better at this but it's still so hard to not hate yourself when youre putting off work :')

[fmbray_]

Someone upvote this. I can't figure out how to save shorts and I need to get back to this so I can start maximizing my joy soon.

[nom_nom]

What helps me a lot is to take the pressure off of tasks.
If I don’t feel like doing it now and it doesn’t have to be done tomorrow, I do whatever I feel like doing instead and really give myself permission to do so.
At the same time I take it seriously if I can’t stop thinking about the task. That’s a sign that I actually want to do the task right now.
I like to think about it like being a leave in a calm river. I just go with whatever feels like I need right now even if it logically or chronologically doesn’t make sense at first sight.

[RandomWorksOfficial]

I wake up and am reminded that freedom and happiness means work 5 days a week to afford being free and happy (:

[Moose]

I actively try to take consciousness joy in all the things I do. It makes a massive difference in living a very regular life.

[gustavovinicius]

In 2021 i was at my worst state of mind, i've had failed two years in school, not because i was a "bad" or "lazy" student, i was just not bothered to do anything other than lay in bed, play on my pc and eat crap food, i got like that after my grandmother died to covid and my family started to tear apart due to my mother and aunts not knowing how to deal with her death, later that year i made a promise to myself to get out of that situation, in 2022 i started to go out of the house more, meet new people, going to the gym, dieting and bla bla bla, i got back on school with the mindset of being the best student on my class (which wasn't hard, due to my classmates not being interested at all on studying) i got the best grades, even got respect from the teachets for that. When the year was about to end i got the courage to confess to a girl that i liked, and it happened she liked me back too! That seems great you might say, but the story doesn't end here.
On the third day of us dating she told me her mother was going to take her and her sister to move to another city, and told me she didn't like "distance" when dating someone (the city she was supposed to go was just 5 hours away on a road trip) she told me she didn't want to talk to me anymore so she wont get "used" to me, you might think this isn't as bad as other types of breakups but her words did genuinely hurt me, and i knew it was all bullshit, after that i spend the rest of the year depressed (it happened in november, she was supposed to move on the end of december) after 2022 ended i got back on my shoes(kinda) and started looking foward to the next school year(kinda) and then on the first day of school i see her enter the hallway, and from the hallway she sees me and walks past me looking at the wall, and i said hi and asked her how she was doing and she just ignored me, at the time i was not mad about it, i was just curious, and i asked her sister's boyfriend if they moved cities, and he just says that their mother says that shit all the time and never moves, that just confirmed that it was all bullshit and i just laughed about it. Today im better about the breakup, but just lost all the motivation i had when i started to improve myself, just think today that it doesn't make a difference if make an effort to be better, life is just gonna give you a massive f u and destroy all of your expectations and kick you in the nuts.

[duskshadow]

I wish everyday were Saturday. That way, we can just wake up without having to worry about going to work or school and can actually sleep in. That's literally half of the stress gone already.

[uh-ooooh]

I try to tell myself that a lot lately so it's cool hearing you say it as well: "you're literally going to procrastinate, might as well treat yourself." or even "doing 'x' is better than literally doing nothing so treat yourself"

[Hobby_Technology]

Dr. K just explained the cycle I've been going through since 2020, and I finally feel like I understand how I feel.

[patmarek]

Thats exactly the reason why i spent my vacation hiking and enjoying the outdoor which gives me pure enjoyment instead of playing video games as every other year since ages 😅 man its all worth it

[omarkalthoum]

it's insane how long can people tolerate half lives .