getting too excited and then falling flat

I find gym days really help but they don't solve all the world's problems. The endorphin buzz is nice but it's only temporary.

At the least, it gives you an hour of solid mindfulness. It's hard to think about anything else when you're holding 100+ lbs of cast iron directly over your head!

Casper wrote:I find gym days really help but they don't solve all the world's problems. The endorphin buzz is nice but it's only temporary.

yeah i just want to solve the main problem somehow.
this is why i left jobs, etc, etc... something to solve the core problem.

JT, sometimes little things like exercise endorphins make coping with and sometimes resolving, the bigger problems easier. A lot of times, if you can just get through today, that's a big win in itself.

yeah one day at a time. but its been so many years.
n so many relapses.
the world is such a terrible place. ive been humiliated so much n so often.

I know, JT. And I wish I had some long-term "rah, rah" for you, but I don't even have one for me right now. The problem is that things that give us the buzz we need are only for the short-term and there just isn't anything that can deliver that kind of serotonin fix continuously over the long-term.

Besides, if there was, we'd probably become habituated to it and it would lose its effect. (Can you tell I've been studying neuropsych lately?)

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Casper wrote:And I wish I had some long-term "rah, rah" for you, but I don't even have one for me right now. The problem is that things that give us the buzz we need are only for the short-term and there just isn't anything that can deliver that kind of serotonin fix continuously over the long-term.

Besides, if there was, we'd probably become habituated to it and it would lose its effect. (Can you tell I've been studying neuropsych lately?)

yeah there isnt some answer that will fix stuff except for a time machine. there was this quote: we need motivation daily, just like bath.

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most people move on in their lives. my classmates of recent college have. sure they must also think about past once in a while but they dont obsess over it.

i'm stuck since 2013. if only...
sigh. n now i the more i go to gym or improve in life, the more i regret my former behavior.
sure we can look at it in another way: look where u are now vs where u were then... how much improvement uve made...

its not that easy though.