Used to be a man with depression who didnt have much to live for.
Now Happy Man on a mission to save as much men as I can and help them perform better in life.
How to recover from any addiction:
Understand addiction, impulsivity, and dopamine's role in risk and advantage. Addiction stems from seeking intense experiences or escaping pain. Modern life's imbalance contributes to addiction and mental illness, requiring a grasp of pleasure's neurobiological basis for self-control.
Establish life balance for pleasure, pain, and environmental sensitivity. Embrace boredom for growth and productivity. Take action towards goals to prevent anxiety and depression, focusing on daily achievable tasks for progress.
Resist addiction by maintaining a flexible dopamine balance for overall well-being and reconnecting with the present moment.
Embrace healthy recovery strategies by depriving high dopamine rewards for 30 days to regenerate dopamine transmission. Persistence and patience are vital during recovery.
Acknowledge addiction as a treatable brain disease disrupting brain balance, leading to compulsive substance use.
Guard against addiction to the recovery process and be cautious of potential reliance on recovery structures.
Practice truth-telling for addiction recovery, acknowledging addictive qualities even in seemingly harmless substances or behaviors.
Balance success with well-being in the social media age by focusing on authentic, value-driven achievement, preserving offline connections to avoid loneliness and excessive technology use.
@GrowWithAndrew The best thing you can do is to start enjoying the journey you are going through, instead of thinking all the time about the end result.
For most of my life, I lived on cereal for breakfast, which was basically just sugar. It was influenced by society's programming, TV commercials that programmed us that it was healthy and nutritious. It ended for me with serious metabolic disorders, obesity, insulin resistance. No wonder we have an obesity epidemic. I feel disgusted just thinking about it.
@Mangan150 It's ridiculous that when you find out that you eat healthy, it shocks the people around you, and eating fast food, for example, is normalized.