Dopamine INTRODUCTION

Sources

• Excessive Social Media Could Give You This Mental Illness
• Master Your Mind & Change Your Brain - Andrew Huberman

Dopamine

It is about pursuit of things

• Novelty
• Surprise
• Sense we’re on some exciting track
• Puts us in states of readiness, anticipation, looking, seeking
• It’s about go go go
• it’s about pursuit

Dopamine Hits

• Just like an animal in a corner digging, looking looking looking for a bone - that’s us
• After you get your dopamine hit, it shifts into something more like an OCD behavior
• Obsession leads to a compulsion
• Acting out the compulsion -> increase the obsession
• Scrolling -> why are you doing this?

Random Intermittent Reward

• keeps people doing the behavior
• you don’t know when you’re gonna hit the jackpot
• just like gambling, you don’t know when the next hit is gonna come

Serotonine

• does the opposite of Dopamine
• Satisfied, Satied