It could be ADHD too. It, other neurodevelopmental disorders, and affective disorders can affect how one feels about just about anything.
I have ADHD and I derive nearly no pleasure from “a job well done” unless the outcome is directly and fairly immediately beneficial.
Project completed at work? At most I’ll be relieved it’s done unless it shows off my skills, which I like - dopamine!
Baked a cake? For myself, fuck yeah - dopamine! For someone else and I don’t get any? The forecast shows a light chance of a low pressure dopamine system entering the region this afternoon, depending on how much I like the person.
I blew my dopamine circuits out with a meth addiction and have the same effects of ADHD now, which sucks because they can’t exactly put me on a stimulant for it. I drink coffee and smoke weed until I’m capable of accomplishing small tasks, and then build on those to occasionally have productive days.
Just kidding, I hate that shit. Sorry to hear it, I can’t imagine how difficult that must be. I’ve never tried meth. It sounds like it’d be too much of what already works for me.
As someone with severe adhd, I will absolutely maintain that it’s a mindset issue. I don’t think it makes it harder to derive pleasure from a job well done. I think it disrupts the ability to connect that feedback to doing that task in a way that changes the amount of effort to do that task again in the future
It could be ADHD too. It, other neurodevelopmental disorders, and affective disorders can affect how one feels about just about anything.
I have ADHD and I derive nearly no pleasure from “a job well done” unless the outcome is directly and fairly immediately beneficial.
Project completed at work? At most I’ll be relieved it’s done unless it shows off my skills, which I like - dopamine!
Baked a cake? For myself, fuck yeah - dopamine! For someone else and I don’t get any? The forecast shows a light chance of a low pressure dopamine system entering the region this afternoon, depending on how much I like the person.
I blew my dopamine circuits out with a meth addiction and have the same effects of ADHD now, which sucks because they can’t exactly put me on a stimulant for it. I drink coffee and smoke weed until I’m capable of accomplishing small tasks, and then build on those to occasionally have productive days.
You just have to push through! Willpower!
Just kidding, I hate that shit. Sorry to hear it, I can’t imagine how difficult that must be. I’ve never tried meth. It sounds like it’d be too much of what already works for me.
As someone with severe adhd, I will absolutely maintain that it’s a mindset issue. I don’t think it makes it harder to derive pleasure from a job well done. I think it disrupts the ability to connect that feedback to doing that task in a way that changes the amount of effort to do that task again in the future