There's no "self-development" board and even if there was, it would mostly be useless bullshit.

Let's have a thread on Scientific Self-Development. And by self-development I really mean "solving yourself".

I'll start with myself and if anybody can help - you're very welcome. Post your situations as well, I'll share knowledge as much as I can.
I seem to have what you would call "learned helplessness" where by default I don't do anything productive even if it's REALLY important - like making enough money to buy food. Actually I may not have that - or I may have had it due to overcaring parents but then overcame it.

The main issue as far as I can tell now is a sort of addiction to distractions. I've wasted YEARS playing vg and watching youtube. The interesting thing is I seem to have started "blocking" the enjoyment from these activities years ago - as a form of punishment/motivation to do right things. It doesn't help however and in fact not being able to enjoy things even occasionally likely has a negative overall effect.

At this point there's almost nothing I enjoy - simply because I've done it all to death. Videogames are almost always boring, music is almost always boring - aside from some especially pumping hip-hop tracks.

The only thing left is youtube. And by God that thing fucking gets me. It's actually boring as well at this point - and mostly I feel nauseated from watching all sorts of shit, but I still do it. I feel some sort of pull, sucking me into it. And once I start doing it, I just can't step back and become present to the moment. I procrastinate even with eating and urinating - fucking pathetic. Exactly like a mouse from those experiments.

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