🔼: [[🛠Pendulation Toolkit]]
###### Dopamine Menu
[[On Tools, Skills, and Practices...]]
Type:
Use: [[💡 ADHD]], [[💡 Dopamine]]
Add things that make you feel excited and consider what you usually do that aren't very good for you. If nothing is fun, tell your doctor and therapist.
1. Appetizers: Quick dopamine boosts
- Jumping jacks
- Coffee
- Five minutes on social media
2. Entrees: Things that are exciting, healthy, and make you feel alive.
- Playing an instrument
- Dog park
- Gym or yoga
- Quality time with friends
- Game night
3. Sides: things that make stuff more engaging
- Music
- Fidget toys
- Increased challenge
4. Deserts: Go-to things you like but aren't necessarily healthy and area easy to do too much of.
- Social media
- Texting
- Spending time with people who aren't present
- Ruminating
- Binge eating
- Watching TV
- Solo video games
5. Specials
- Concerts
- Travel
- Shopping
- Dinner
6. Prep
- Set up your stuff for when you need it and place them appropriately. Make the good stuff easier and the bad stuff more difficult.