Artifical dopamine
Social media
Fast food
Drugs
Alcohol
Partying
Drugs
Working
In my case, it is definitely alcohol, phone scrolling and fast food - things like japanese curry
just provides that mental relief, takes off the edge
alcohol makes me forget things, just loosen up and stop the thinking and go into the 'just-do-it, just-say-it' mode
phone scrolling gives me the stop the thinking too, and takes off some of the edges too, esp when there is something I can laugh to, just break it up for me, so I don't get too intense
The phone scrolling, I successfuly get on top of that, due to my belief to be there for the kids
Bhawana say recently you don't need Alcohol to give you that feeling
Now I am also eliminating the food bit
Healthy dopamine
Cold shower
Running
Hiking
Exercising
Healthy food
Healthy relationship
Sleep
Music
Gratitude
Meditation
Writing
Laughing
All this time, food is my fix. That is why for Remi it is so important. Not to keep on feeding her food when things get hard. I dont want her to associate food as a relief of stress.
There are intense emotion is to slowly co-regulate.
I need to find ways of relief for myself.