Behaviors that cause large dopamine peaks can lead to addiction and a reduced capacity for joy from any activity. — Whalespan
Behaviors that cause large dopamine peaks can lead to addiction and a reduced capacity for joy from any activity.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“what they end up doing is thinking about what caused that Peak experience and then go back and try to re-engage in the behavior and try and regenerate that Peak experience but you now know that that is a terrible strategy in fact that strategy will only lead to diminished Peaks from the same experience it will lead to in many cases pursuing more and more intense experiences to try and recapitulate recreate that big peak which won't work or even worse people start stacking and combining different dopamine increasing behaviors in order to try and obtain something like that initial Peak”
“And if we continue to indulge in the same behaviors or even different behaviors that increase our dopamine in these big peaks over and over and over again, we won't experience the same level of joy from those behaviors or from anything at all. Now, that has a name. It's called addiction.”