@Jerry Reuss Thank you so much for your advice, I really appreciate it! I did some research about dopamine detoxing, and I think that'll help a lot. When I finished high school I was so burnt out, and I had no idea what I wanted to study or do as a career (I still don't really know). I rushed into a university degree that I wasn't interested in, and it caused me to feel so stressed, demotivated and generally down that I dropped out. Ever since then, I've gotten deeper into the habit of avoiding hard/stressful/long-term development tasks, and spending more time doing instant gratification activities like watching TV/YouTube. But I think the biggest cause of the issues is my anxiety disorder; I have severe OCD (I've had it for twelve years now). Basically I almost always feel stressed/afraid and spend most of the day obsessing about worries and fears, and so I do compulsive actions (sometimes over a hundred times a day) to make myself feel safer, or make myself feel like I've "prevented the worries from coming true". It sounds very irrational (and it is), but with OCD your nervous system virtually can't tell the difference between a real threat and a false alarm. So even if I know that my worries/fears are irrational and can't happen, and that doing compulsive actions doesn't actually affect anything, my nervous system still responds as if the worries are real threats, so I go into fight-or-flight mode and feel that I need to react in some way to become safe, so I do compulsions. This isn't the correct way to respond; doing compulsions reinforces the OCD cycle and makes it stronger. What I should do is not react to the thoughts and let them pass on their own, and it might sound easy, but it feels almost impossible to do whenever an intense fear/worry pops up, which is why people with OCD very easily get into the habit of doing compulsions for short-term relief. There's no cure for OCD, but it is possible to make it more manageable by being brave enough to respond correctly; I just haven't been brave enough.

@Connor Hall yeah I’d also like to see something like this 😃

I’d love to see a course about dieting; what and how much to eat to lose fat but gain muscle

@Mohammad Abusalama Thanks so much for the reply! I did some more research too, and it seems like it’s a personal preference thing, so I’ll see what works best for me :) Thank you again!

I’m from South Africa; nice to meet you!