Me: I'll jerk off and decide with a clear mind!
later
Brain: borrrrreeeeed
this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2025
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The worst is when masturbation gets boring.
When masturbation's lost its fun, you're fuckin' lonely.
I'm just fuckin my hand. Fuck.
When masturbation's lost its fun you're fucking breaking.
That just means it's time for round two, bro.
Confirmed: brain is cat.
For anyone looking for an answer, put on some music and dance like an idiot. Helps.
I've found it's the movement and change of context that helps me. Taking a walk, going for a ride, or even just moving to a different room helps my brain kick out of one of these ruts. Dancing is a high energy option that I'm not always ready for but, when I am, it's very cathartic. 🙂
ADHD is a spectrum (as is all neurodiversity) but one of the neurochemical commonalities between people who meet the diagnostic criteria for ADHD is disregulation of norepinephrine. Getting on meds that work and engaging a therapist who can help develop better emotional tooling and coping mechanisms can be life changing. One of my coping mechanisms is changing the scenery. Norepinephrine is a precursor for a whole bunch of essential chemistry so engaging other systems that need it seems to help other areas.
Everyone is different but I've found that if my brain is stuck then my body is usually stuck as well. Unstick the body and, after a while, the brain wants to follow.
When nothing sounds satisfying and I have no gumption whatsoever I can introduce something locally novel in an attempt to kick things into gear again. Executive dysfunction can make choosing from options tough (or temporarily impossible) but, on not-the-worst days, I can at least stand up and start walking aimlessly until I start to feel different. Walking outside tends to help the most.
It's nothing strenuous or fitness focused. Just a leisurely stroll around the bedroom, yard, neighborhood, etc. After a bit I usually feel like doing something. Even if that's just more walking at least it beats mean mugging the wall until I want to cry or sleep. Usually I end up doing something I wanted to do earlier in the week though.
I really like and appreciate this well-written and thoughtful comment! Thank you for it. I'm not able to put it into words, 'cause my brain is broken, but it's helped me. Thank you! :)
I think all people have a search for novelty, but with ADHD it's probably worse. I often don't want to initiate an activity because the novelty has worn off, or rather, I think I know what the activity will be like, and calculating the dopamine hit often makes me think it's not worth it. Anywho, I've enjoyed doing "grownup" activities more recently, like just peeling potatoes and vacuuming and stuff like that, because I realize my "novelty meter" is broken.
Omg the dopamine hit from emptying and refilling the dishwasher cannot be equaled.
Sitting down after you carried in the groceries. Five minutes of pure bliss.
Too bad I need days to work up the will to buy them first.
I call this shit Evil Boredom.
It's the worst and it makes me feel angry and guilty and dumb and broken. Evil. Evil Boredom.
For me it helps to think of this kind of boredom not as "nothing to do", but as a lack of purpose. I sometimes go on a walk (to get the sensory input my head needs to work properly) and try to figure out what feels meaningful at all as I do it. That helps escape this hole, if the meaningful thing I can think of is something I can currently do.
An endless stream of short vertical videos with mundane content at best?
Brain: Son of a bitch, I'm in!
Wait isn’t the part asking the questions also the brain itself? That doesn’t make sense, that would mean the brain would be working against itself…
Oh right, never mind…
The first step is always the hardest
But then the executive dysfunction kicks in and your brain locks up trying to do the first step
Thats the hard part
The correct answer is sleep. Brain will disagree with that too.
It's either sleep or exercise. Being a lazy bum I usually choose sleep. Which my brain greatly appreciates.
I believe there's a word for this called Languishing
I didn't know that was a thing, thanks
wow, you get kicked out if you decline all cookies. fantastic.
Sleep. Beautiful precious sleep. Dream. Warm blanket, firm mattress.
Did you know the human brain is the only thing in existence that chose its own name?
Wouldn't that imply that you know that there are no other intelligent life forms in the universe?
Seems reasonable to me, you ever met any other intelligent life forms?
A non sequitur seems reasonable to you?
That's not a non sequitur? 'ah, but you imply there is no other intelligent life' "forsooth, why, have you met such?" Looks pretty fucking sequitur to me.
TikTok it is
4 hours later: oh no
I usually try to just make myself do one of the "boring" things listed (like watch a show or play a game), if it's so insanely boring that I'd rather do nothing then I'll stop but even if I don't find joy out of the activity I initially picked it'll usually tell me what I do want to do.
so painfully true.
Is that better or worse than when my depression refuses to enjoy anything whatsoever?