People think we're smarter than dolphins because we invented skyscrapers, digital watches, and war, while all the dolphins ever do is goof off in the oceans having fun. Dolphins know they're smarter for the same reasons.
That's a lazy answer for being wrong. Seems like you knew the correct word all along, but decided to use an ageist pejorative instead, and now you're upset for being called out on it.
We're going to be the first species to go extinct due to stupidity. A dude the other day told me that the guy who invented the weather channel says that global warming is due to Earth's orbit not being a perfect circle. I don't know how to combat that level of stupid.
These are the things that keep me from anxiety and depression.
Maintain high-quality relationships with people who enrich your life.
Get good sleep. 7.5 hours of solid sleep every night.
Watch your diet. Don't eat too much processed food. Keep meat and dairy to 1/3 of what you eat.
Take care of something. Dogs and cats are great but so are reptiles, fish and even plants.
Find work that challenges you in ways that keep you engaged, but doesn't punish you for being neurodivergent.
Coffee, one cup in the morning. Try to get your focus work done in the first half of the day, while the caffeine is still pumping. If you can handle it, have a 2nd cup before noon, buy only if it doesn't keep you from going to sleep at a good time.
It depends. If I get into a really interesting book, and then spend several hours reading, I sometimes feel like that. Like I got so sucked into the world of the book that I left this one. Sometimes at the end of a really long, really good movie I feel the same. It doesn't feel as bad as you describe though. Just kind of disorienting.
If I get into a flow state at work it feels fantastic. At the end I feel tired, but in a good way. I can relax and usually kind of revel in whatever was created during the flow state. It feels so good, I have to be careful not to overindulge. If I don't watch it, I'll ignore all the boring work that's not likely to get me into a flow.
I highly recommend anyone with ADHD to look into flow state theory.
I was just listening to The Hidden Brain, they talked about an experiment. Scientists bioengineered rats to have no dopamine receptors. If they put food in the rat's mouth it would eat, but if they put the food even one body length away, the rat would starve to death. I have never felt so much sympathy for a rat.
The inherent problem is money. Sites that store and serve text can be very cheaply run. Sites that store and serve video are expensive. The storage and throughput demands are much higher. In order to get videos to load quickly, you need a CDN. Nobody of average means can run a TikTok clone as a hobby.
Office Depot sells printers at very low (or even negative) margin, and then inflates the margins on cables, paper, ink, and warranty. If you want the best deal, get the printer from OD, and everything else you need somewhere else. That $20 USB cable they sell costs them $1 and you can get the same or better online for $2.68.
If you don't do the important things in life you'll die. Your genes built the dopamine system to make sure you'll do those things. Your dopamine system doesn't function correctly. When you do a life sustaining thing, your broken dopamine system says, "meh, that was a waste of time, don't do that again or you'll die. Do something that does give dopamine."
Here's my hack. Give your brain dopamine. Figure out the things that engage you and make you feel good. If you're engaged and feeling good, it's because the dopamine is flowing. I like reading, video games, TV, and interesting complex problems. Right after I do a boring task, I reward myself with some dopamine. I play a game or I work on an interesting problem. I treat my brain like a labrador. Good boy have a treat. The bigger the task the bigger the reward.
Slightly less helpful but still good is affirmations. When you do something good, take a moment to recognize it, just to yourself. "I cleaned my room, which is good. I should feel good about it." It sounds corny, but it helps.
In capitalism, if you don't work, some capitalist pig will throw your family out on the streets, whereas in communism, if you don't work, some communist pig will throw your family in jail.
Caffeine is a stimulant. I find that after a cup of coffee I'm OK for about 4 hours. I try to schedule my focus time during the first half of the day, and then allow the second half to be research time.
While I'm working, I tend to have a list of three things I want to work on. If thing.1 stalls, I can open thing.2 and then thing.3. I can't do more, or I'll forget to go back to thing.1. If all three things stall, I grab a bit of dopamine via a video game or SM and then go back to thing.x where thing.importance is max.
I also have a couple of backup tasks in case I can't work on the big three. There's always documentation and expense reports.
Careful now buddy, the internet is no place for common sense acknowledgement of reality.