ADHD and Procrastination | Dopamine Detox — ADD 2 Focus.

ADHD and Procrastination | Dopamine Detox — ADD 2 Focus.
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When you have ADHD, Procrastination is probably something you had to deal with in your life.
In this video, I will try to explain a method called: The Dopamine Detox, and how you can apply it in your life.
This method is a good way to gain insight into your own habits and life.

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[addfocus]

Are you going to do the dopamine detox? Or have you already done one? What was your experience?

[bricology]

Scary realization: when I discovered that I get dopamine hits from watching YouTube videos on how to go on dopamine detoxes...

[saramulry]

These are neurotypical tips suggested for people with ADHD, but may not work at all for a lot of ADHD. For example in my case on most days, it’s extremely difficult for me to get literally anything done unless I have music, a podcast, or a video playing alongside what I’m doing. Now if I’m being creative not necessarily, but with anything else if I was “dopamine detoxing” I wouldn’t even be able to journal or get myself out the door for a walk. People are affected in different amounts and different ways.

[VenusVoice]

I think music is important.. studies show that music actually improves the connectivity of dopamine in your brain. But I heard from a neurofeedback scientist somewhere that it's only a certain type of music. No lyrics, no upbeat music but not too meditational either. Somewhere in the middle like a soft trance, for example.

[allencampbell]

My biggest dopamine detox sources that in does drain my dopamine so badly is watching xxx and hearing excess music because I love music. I've experimented that for a few days, I do feel more confident and more motivated. I personally do recommend dopamine detox for everyone. Good luck

[seanreyes]

Very insightful and helpful and I actually did start meditating 3 months ago before knowing it helped for a fact with ADHD. The idea at first of sitting there with my eyes closed breathing in and and out at a normal pace and just focusing on that and thinking about nothing else for at least 15mins would be a waste of time. But damn it took about 3days before started seeing like real results of just being able to focus on one task at a time and really got shit done for the first time in my life I’m actually achieving things that i say im going to do and am happier with just being in my own skin more then ever and I thank you for the other tips in your video and can’t wait to see what else this channel has to offer.

[soulreaperichig]

Thanks for the video, brother. I appreciate it. I just realized I've been a dopamine slave for almost 28 years. It's time for emancipation.

[danijohnnie]

As I scroll on my 10th or 15th YouTube video today, I need to try this. I uninstalled IG and FB but I love YouTube bc it's full of helpful info like this. Yet Im realizing it's taking hours of my day. So let me try something different. It's scary to even think about. No Phone or web surfing. I use a phone and computer all day for work too so this seems challenging.

[rebeccaemilie]

This is a great video thank you. I’ve never come across this explanation and how to actually do it before. I’m going to give it a go on Sunday and see if I am able to carry it on for a couple of days. Lockdown in the uk and my salon having to close has definitely encouraged more of already bad habits and addictions to junk food and tech so I’m keen to see how this can help me out.

[evelynemorlot]

Thank you for this video! I got diagnosed recently and this video is particularly helpful with the one on meditation :)

[GustafHauRuck]

Great video, looking forward to check out the rest of the channel and learn more about dopamine

[c__________________]

When he starts listing down what to not do when doing a dopamine detox I thought I might die 😅😵

[sreejith]

It was wonderful man! Could you make a video describing your personal struggle with ADHD and how you overcame it? That would be helpful to all of us :)

[gabrielbayless]

I will attempt this over the weekend. Thank you.

[elmoviemaster]

Amazing video!! This is exactly what I needed to see and hear. Keep up the great work. Going to begin day 1 of the detox. :)

[Octoberstorm]

Explains my impulse buying :( it’s hurt me so bad. If I buy a new shirt I will be motivated to do laundry. If I buy a new pen I am finally motivated to draw or write.

Since taking adhd meds I don’t crave too much foods and I lost my sex drive which is fine. The moment I stopped taking it for 4 days I spent $200 on food impulsively and $300 on things at my job. What the hell. I only made that much in one week

[bayberae]

WOW thank you ! I didn’t realize how much dopamine plays a role in our day to day lives! I knew I had low dopamine and have found meditation 🧘🏻‍♀️ exercise have improved my mindset. I am getting ready to take a big test ( I’m 52 insurance adjuster test ) and my study habits are ALL OVER the place 🤪, then I watched your study video and yes printing out all the tests as study material now. I tried coffee shops, libraries and outside and get so damn distracted I had to go back and re study 📖🙃 I prefer to be home w nothing but study hertz and be in my own space and in the quiet. Does this help anyone else ?

[ajmarr]

Not dopamine fasting but cortisol fasting! (good video by the way, correct about adhd by the way, and yes, I have adhd too!)
Dopamine fasting ‘works’ not because it ‘recharges’ dopamine systems, but because it avoids choice contrast which causes tension or stress and harmful cortisol release. Indeed, when we get bored of anything from too much pizza to too much sex, dopamine release is suppressed for a time, but bounces back naturally given a little time and abstinence. This is called habituation, and is why we naturally take pause from our pleasures in place and time. Abstinence is like absence, which in Shakespeare’s words makes the heart grow fonder, not stronger!
More on choice contrast and how it works here:
Cinderella and her effects
In the fairy tale, Cinderella faced daily exhaustion through having to pursue innumerable small tasks heaped upon her by her stepsisters and evil stepmother, with each task having the same high priority, resulting in lots of continuous dilemmas and resulting stress. Although the demands were not great, it was the continuous indecisions that hurt. In Cinderella’s case and in the real world, sustained levels of muscular tension are commonly produced during continuous moment to moment alternative choices wherein any choice entails near equivalent feasible or avoidable losses, or dilemmas. These dilemmas may consist of two or more rationally comparable choices that are near equivalent (e.g. what choice to make in a card game) or two choices that represent affective choices or affective vs. rational choices that are near equivalent in value and cannot be logically compared. An affective choice will be defined as anticipatory positive affect or more specifically, a priming effect due to the enhanced and sustained activity of mid-brain dopamine systems that provide an affective value (or ‘wanting’) to engaging in or the prospect of engaging in positive unpredicted or novel events (e.g. checking email) or primary drives (e.g. ‘wanting’ an ice cream cone). As such this activity may occur not only when a discrepancy is perceived but also from moment to moment prior to or in anticipation of that event. Thus, continuous decision making between alternative choices (e.g. doing housework or minding a child, working or surfing the internet, staying on a diet or eating ice cream, keeping a dental appointment or staying at home) represents irreconcilable affective and/or rational alternatives wherein one choice entails the loss of its alternative, and is associated with sustained or tonic levels of tension that is painful. This ‘Cinderella Effect’, represents the continuous activation of ‘slow twitch muscular units’ (also called Cinderella fibers). This sustained activation causes them to eventually fail, and thus recruit other groups of muscles more peripheral to the original group, resulting in pain and exhaustion. In addition, these slow twitch fibers are slow to deactivate, and will continue activated even during subsequent intervals of rest. The aversive result of this long-term activation conforms to the concept of ‘allostatic load’, which predicts that tension and arousal will be maladaptive when there is an imbalance between activation and rest/recovery. Specifically, continuous low level or ‘slight’ tension results in overexposure to stress hormones, high blood pressure, and resulting mental and physical exhaustion.
and from the International Journal of Stress Management, by this author

[DiamondMind]

Great content brother I believe I have undiagnosed ADHD not so much the hyperactive side but I have dyslexia, struggled with porn, food, video games and am impulsive and susceptible to over sharing which I am trying to work on.

[zareent]

This video was really helpful thank you so much