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Wanting something requires dopamine signaling, but liking something doesn’t.

If you have a mental illness/disorder that affects dopamine, you might feel that you don’t want to do the things that you like. You do still like them. You will appreciate having done them.

Let your likes guide you.

(If you want to read more, here’s one experimental paper about it. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5171207/ This theory called the incentive-sensitization theory was originally created to explain behaviors in addiction but can be applied elsewhere as well)

may your next chapter be softer than your last.

may your next chapter be softer than your last.

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for your next poem/story

Ahlam - dreams

Bahaar - sea

Fajr - dawn

Ghazal - love poetry

Hadiya - gift

Hikma - wisdom

Ikhlas - sincerity, loyalty

Ishq - passion

Mawadda - affection, loving-kindness

Mawsim - season

Qadr - destiny

Qalb - heart

Qamar - moon

Rihla - journey

Sabr - patience

Sadaqa - friendship

Shawq - longing

Ta’aburnee - "you bury me"; when someone says this, it means he wants to die before the other because he wouldn’t be able to live without this other person

Tarab - ecstasy (in music or poetry)

Thuluth - large, elegant letters with sweeping curves often used in architectural inscriptions and religious texts

Warda - rose

Yashtaq - to miss

Yatamanna - to wish

Yu‘aniqu - to hug

Yu‘jib - to like

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