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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 55 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)
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[–] Octavio@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I wonder if axises will be considered correct one day, kind of like what happened with indices and indexes.

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 2 points 5 days ago

... and appendixes and appendices.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Axix? Axex?

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 46 points 6 days ago (5 children)

How is sleep considered cheap? You have to pay a monthly subscription for the right to sleep, it's called rent.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 30 points 6 days ago (4 children)

How is sleep considered a source of dopamine?

A quick search yielded it helps reset and balance dopamine receptors but not that it provides any.

[–] baconmonsta@piefed.social 17 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I had the same thought about therapy. Like who says that's a dopamine source? Feels like they just added random activities here. How about ice skating or baking as well?

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 14 points 6 days ago

Dopamine regulation as a whole could be considered "Dopamine Responsibly", the way I see it.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

helps reset and balance dopamine receptors

I mean, its sort of like asking how a tune-up for your car provides transportation.

If you're receptors are burnt out, your ability to process dopamine is severely inhibited.

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[–] SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I realised at the rate I go through shoes I have a subscription for my feet.

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[–] bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Homeless people sleep too.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Yes they do, until they get arrested for being homeless, because sadly many police and politicians just don't care. ☹️

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 4 points 6 days ago

When I was about 12, I went camping with the church youth group. First day, it rained pretty hard for a couple hours. I left the tent door open the whole time. Everything was wet the whole trip. Sleeping while surrounded by water and wet things, is very uncomfortable. So, yes, all of these things are extremely important, and EVERY person should have access to all of these things.

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[–] garlicandonions@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Sleep ain't cheap! Sleep is a luxury for people with No dependents and the time to prioritize.

[–] cabb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 days ago

With the price of housing I think sleep should be listed as a high-cost activity

[–] Octavio@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I have a reservation about the Y-value for “Hobbies.” 😁

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

COCAIIIIIINNNNNNEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!'

COKE COKE COKE CCCCCCOOOOOOOOCCCCCAAAAAIIIIINNNNEEEEEE!!!!!!!!

[–] finitebanjo@piefed.world 19 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Infynis@midwest.social 12 points 6 days ago

You and I must have different hobbies

[–] Whitebrow@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Needs to be another axis representing how “easy” it is to show if it requires any effort to do

[–] Acamon@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

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).

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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 days ago
[–] Beacon@fedia.io 12 points 6 days ago

Addictive and sustainable aren't opposites. If anything, addictiveness makes some things MORE sustainable. Coffee drinking is WAY more sustainable of a habit than exercise and meditation

This whole graph is nonsense

[–] ashestoashes@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Depending on their situation, I think everyone would put their sex dot in a unique position, and none of them would be wrong.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Pika@rekabu.ru 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Seriously though, I had times when condoms strained my budget quite a lot

It was like: do I buy this 12-pack or do I rather eat in the next 4 days?

of course it was condoms all the way

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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)

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 10 points 6 days ago (8 children)

Wait... people get dopamine from exercise?!

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[–] petersr@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What does sleep or meditation have to do with dopamine?

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago

It's all pseudo-scientific nonsense.

[–] Blackout@fedia.io 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If social media was so addictive why am I not on it right now?

[–] Perspectivist@feddit.uk 4 points 6 days ago

It's quite convenient and self-serving to not label Lemmy as social media.

[–] Flying_Dutch_Rudder@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (4 children)
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