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DOPAMINERS: 20 ways ADHDers chase dopamine

planning to do work is so much more fun than doing the work and you trick yourself if you're doing like a color-coded to-do list or like this elaborate like cleaning schedule really what you're doing is you're avoiding the work by thinking about talking about and planning the work yeah it's another yes

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I'll find you 0.20 by the end of this episode, don't worry.

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Yeah.

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I think if I go back to pre-therapy me, you know, at our wedding.

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So I had a best man at our wedding, Matt.

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I've known him for over 20 years.

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And he was doing his speech.

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And he was talking about like me when I was young and me at uni and me in my 20s.

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And he was like, she's so feisty.

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She can be so angry.

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She loves to get in a fight.

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And there was sort of a few people sort of looking around like, what?

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Because modern me...

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Has chilled out.

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But when I was younger, I was known for getting in screaming matches over politics, getting in bar fights if somebody was offensive to one of my friends or I heard something racist or homophobic.

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Like I would get in, I would get in fist fights.

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Yeah, it kind of, well, is it the dopamine?

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You just, oh, you feel like you're doing the right thing.

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It makes you alive.

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Obviously in today's context, I imagine a lot of people do that online.