Anhedonia... that blaaaaah feeling.

[Foggy-Hollow]

Huberman has a handful of dopamine episodes. There’s: Improving Baseline, Craving & pursuit, Controlling for motivation and focus, addiction/rises and falls, leveraging for procrastination.

Any particular one in mind?

 

[miss-sanne]

Huberman has a handful of dopamine episodes. There’s: Improving Baseline, Craving & pursuit, Controlling for motivation and focus, addiction/rises and falls, leveraging for procrastination.

Any particular one in mind?

This one is great, but there are several, as you already know.

Controlling Your Dopamine For Motivation, Focus & Satisfaction​

This episode serves as a sort of “Dopamine Masterclass.” Dr. Huberman discusses the immensely powerful chemical that we all make in our brain and body: dopamine. He describes what it does and the neural circuits involved. He explains dopamine peaks and baselines and the cell biology of dopamine depletion. Dr. Huberman includes 14 tools for how to control your dopamine release for the sake of motivation, focus, avoiding and combating addiction and depression. He explains why dopamine stacking with chemicals and behaviors inevitably leads to states of underwhelm and poor performance. He explains how to achieve sustained increases in baseline dopamine, compounds that injure and protect dopamine neurons, including caffeine, from specific sources. Dr. Huberman describes non-prescription supplements for increasing dopamine—both their benefits and risks—and the synergy of pro-dopamine supplements with those that increase acetylcholine.

 

[desinr-gal]

Huberman has a handful of dopamine episodes. There’s: Improving Baseline, Craving & pursuit, Controlling for motivation and focus, addiction/rises and falls, leveraging for procrastination.

Any particular one in mind?

Wow I didnt realize, I just watched the Controlling for motivation and focus.

 

[Foggy-Hollow]

2 for 2, sounds like that's the one I need to listen to! 🙂

 

[desinr-gal]

It’s been a couple weeks, how are things going?

NAD+ helps with energy but not necessarily the blahs. I’ve learned though that if I try to laugh (say at my husband’s dad joke) the feeling follows - as if I have to pay more attention to the feeling and then it’s really there (just a bit muted). Whereas before if I heard the joke while reading I wouldn’t have to think to laugh.

It’s not like my “garden variety” adhedonia that I’ve had before which is weird. That one if I wasn’t going to laugh it wasn’t there, period.

Need some other ideas to try to balance this. I am still very low dose, backed off to 1mg last week. Got the mood light out yesterday, I’ve been to the gym 3 of 4 previous days. usually that is enough to perk me up and I’m fine for the moment but due for a shot.

NAC was recommended somewhere. Thanks for any other input.

I’m beginning to think either this isn’t going to pan out or I need to wait for April, better weather/season. 😢

sorry that's happening. Do you take Vit D3? that helps I also make tea with Lemon Balm which is supposed to help with mood as well. and of course HRT as drop in hormones does that to me.
I have found that Music, especially the kinds I used to dance to back in the day really help boost happy mood and especially if I listen to them while exercising.
Good luck!