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You have a baseline dopamine level, basically your “default” mood/energy.

When you do high dopamine activities (endless scrolling, porn, junk food, etc.) your brain pumps out dopamine above baseline.

After that spike your baseline temporarily drops. This makes low dopamine activities (talking to friends, reading, hobbies) feel boring.

If you stop or reduce high dopamine habits your baseline slowly rises again.

When your baseline is high, small things in life (conversations, music, nature) start to feel good again.


Key point: High dopamine spikes give short-term pleasure but lower long term enjoyment. Raising your baseline takes patience but makes life naturally more rewarding.
 
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no happiness for your height
 
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True to an extent but don’t think this will save you from shitty external life circumstances
 
this has literally been talked about for years
 
You have a baseline dopamine level, basically your “default” mood/energy.

When you do high dopamine activities (endless scrolling, porn, junk food, etc.) your brain pumps out dopamine above baseline.

After that spike your baseline temporarily drops. This makes low dopamine activities (talking to friends, reading, hobbies) feel boring.

If you stop or reduce high dopamine habits your baseline slowly rises again.

When your baseline is high, small things in life (conversations, music, nature) start to feel good again.


Key point: High dopamine spikes give short-term pleasure but lower long term enjoyment. Raising your baseline takes patience but makes life naturally more rewarding.
Does it help with the corisol spike too?
 
Tell that to the 5'8 LTN
 
It's nothing to do with your "baseline temporarily dropping".
You are desensitising your receptors by engaging in highly dopaminergic activity that does not also release serotonin because there is no material benefit to it (yes, porn, bad food, etc.).
Right idea but wrong justification.
 
You have a baseline dopamine level, basically your “default” mood/energy.

When you do high dopamine activities (endless scrolling, porn, junk food, etc.) your brain pumps out dopamine above baseline.

After that spike your baseline temporarily drops. This makes low dopamine activities (talking to friends, reading, hobbies) feel boring.

If you stop or reduce high dopamine habits your baseline slowly rises again.

When your baseline is high, small things in life (conversations, music, nature) start to feel good again.


Key point: High dopamine spikes give short-term pleasure but lower long term enjoyment. Raising your baseline takes patience but makes life naturally more rewarding.
wataaaaa
 

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