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Happiness doesn’t exist. If your serotonin levels are high, you feel good.
If they’re low, life suddenly feels like trash. That’s all there is.
Think about it serotonin is tied to status. When people respect you, accept you, when you feel like you matter serotonin spikes.
When they ignore you, reject you, or treat you as invisible serotonin crashes.
Which means you don’t even own your happiness.
You’re just a reflection of how much value society assigns to you.
Why were we happy as kids Because we had no expectations. Our brains were clean.
Now our serotonin is chained to external validation. How many followers do you have, who’s looking at you, who’s choosing you that’s all that matters now.
Worse, serotonin is addictive. When your status rises, you feel like a king for a moment. But it never lasts.
The brain always demands more. More attention, more approval, more status an endless hunger.
And in the end, you realize there is no such thing as true happiness.
Only a fragile chemical illusion, playing with your emotions.
We think we’re free, but we’re just puppets pulled by serotonin’s strings.
Happiness doesn’t exist.
There’s only a chemical reward system, and it will never let you be satisfied
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If they’re low, life suddenly feels like trash. That’s all there is.
Think about it serotonin is tied to status. When people respect you, accept you, when you feel like you matter serotonin spikes.
When they ignore you, reject you, or treat you as invisible serotonin crashes.
Which means you don’t even own your happiness.
You’re just a reflection of how much value society assigns to you.
Why were we happy as kids Because we had no expectations. Our brains were clean.
Now our serotonin is chained to external validation. How many followers do you have, who’s looking at you, who’s choosing you that’s all that matters now.
Worse, serotonin is addictive. When your status rises, you feel like a king for a moment. But it never lasts.
The brain always demands more. More attention, more approval, more status an endless hunger.
And in the end, you realize there is no such thing as true happiness.
Only a fragile chemical illusion, playing with your emotions.
We think we’re free, but we’re just puppets pulled by serotonin’s strings.
Happiness doesn’t exist.
There’s only a chemical reward system, and it will never let you be satisfied
Functional polymorphism (5-HTTLPR) in the serotonin transporter gene is associated with subjective well-being: evidence from a US nationally representative sample - Journal of Human Genetics
Variation in the promotor region of the serotonin transporter gene (5-HTTLPR) is a promising candidate for better understanding individual heterogeneity in subjective well-being or happiness, as measured by life satisfaction. This functional polymorphism has previously been associated with...
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Regulation of social hierarchy learning by serotonin transporter availability - Neuropsychopharmacology
Learning one’s status in a group is a fundamental process in building social hierarchies. Although animal studies suggest that serotonin (5-HT) signaling modulates learning social hierarchies, direct evidence in humans is lacking. Here we determined the relationship between serotonin transporter...
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A neurobiological perspective on social influence: Serotonin and social adaptation - PMC
Humans are inherently social beings. Being suggestible to each other's expectations enables pro‐social skills that are crucial for social learning and adaptation. Despite their high relevance for psychiatry, the neurobiological mechanisms underlying ...
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