I Quit Having Fun for 7 Days (Doctor Does Dopamine Detox)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ม.ค. 2023
- I tried a dopamine detox for 7 days. There's a lot of hype and misinformation around dopamine detoxing and dopamine fasting. As a doctor, I wanted to explore it and take a practical approach to how it could be done in an evidence-based way to improve my focus. My dopamine detox involved quitting social media, video games, and other things. I learned a LOT about myself from this challenge, and I'll share my results of how I reset my mind in this video.
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This is the exact video that I needed. I just couldn't stop procastinating.
You got this ✌🏼
@@CajunKoiAcademyi study on my laptop
Would it not be helpful if I can't stop using laptop???
Plz reply :)
@@apoorva2812 it's easy just don't watch things which are not related to your studies I would suggest you to make a new account to avoid notifications
@@tandoori_chimkin7613 I like the idea but the thing is I made another account just for study purposes but I ended up watching vids that "help me study" and that made me procrastinate without even me realising it
BTW thanks for ur advice :)
I am scared of social media, bc it do so we loose control without even realizing it. This video was so interesting!!
I am 14 but is 2 grades late, watching your study tips and techniques really helps me alot and I can't express how much I am thankful for you giving time to create these vids, they have been helping me a lot through my studies and I know I'll catch up with my education because of you. Thank you.
Omg same situation
Im also 2yrs late. Always felt bad about it.. but i realized that it doesnt matter as long as i try my best and do the work at the end of the day :,)
Hi there! I am so glad that you found value in our videos but we should also celebrate you too, for not only watching the content but also applying it. You are the rookie who has stood up for themselves and taken charge.
That's what being a rookie is about: working on improving yourself and always learning! Awesome job!
@@ingridi2c4 better late than never. You did it and I am proud of you for taking action! You got this. 👊🏻
That's so good to hear brother 👐❤
I loved joining you on the detox! I noticed that I could focus a lot better, and I started getting a lot more done. This was a truly great experience.
Awesome job, rookie. What hurdles did you face during the detox and how did you overcome them?
The editing is *chefs kiss* - it has always been really well done and high quality, but now it´s all that and even more fun. Good job guys.
Its my exam period right now and I am currently doing a 50 day Dopamine Detox (till the last day of my exams) I am 2 weeks in right now and its going pretty well in fact I am thinking of not using social media anymore or use it just for texting a few friends during the weekdays... I think everyone should give it a try and preferably for a couple of weeks during exam or one month prior to a big deadline. Good Luck!
thank you cajun joi academy! you really thought me to start ending the habit of procrastinating. Love from PH
Having this kind of video once in a while on your channel is refreshing! Keep up the work!
For those of you who are going to do this, goodluck and stay strong! I wish you all the best!
❤
Good luck to all of you, guys! Keep me updated on your progress by commenting on the video and ill try my best to make sure we celebrate your win!
Love this new video format, entertaining, educative & we get a small look into your life. Love it! 🎀💫
Les goo
I'm beginning this from tomorrow. Thanks for the video ❤
Ok let me also try it, cuz my biggest problem right now is that i study with utmost focus for like 4days and the next 3day of the week I don't study at all like I feel that there no motivation in me, i dont feel like studing so i go to Netflix and get my dopamine back. So i will challenge myself and try it for 7days , will come back on 13th to edit this comment
Goodluck!
Can’t wait to see what you discover about yourself
@Mamba he failed and gave into an extreme porn/fap session and now can barely type due his hand being exhausted lol
any updates
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Love your videos man ❤️❤️
I think it has happened to me almost like what happened to you, in fact, those of the training activities, spending more in the kitchen, in domestic cleaning. And yes it has happened to me in the first days that I had a lot of anxiety (more than normal) and I didn't know why, of course my brain was looking for that to distract and also days that I woke up very tired but at the end of the day I felt good about myself . Thank you for sharing your experiences, it is useful to understand better.
Thank you, will be trying this this week ❤
Good luck! Let me know how it goes
I am studying antipsychotics as we speak! I love when my videos align with my studies
i just watched a similar video from you guys and left kind of the same comment BUT i'm gonna try this and honestly am super excited and hope to come back here with a follow up conment about it
Thats why my grandma can stay in silence without anything
Chi master 🧘♀️
Seriously loveeee you guys!!!!!
Hey there, new subscriber here.Loved the video, definitely will be trying it out. Right actually. Just had coffee, but am going to avoid it for the rest of the day. And social media
These types of videos were due. Thnxx for uploading 🔥
true
@@anuraganand6792 ?
@@paulie33 sorry my bad it was for different comment asking to get pinned..
@@anuraganand6792 well bro I'm not in the crowd of that type of people 😂
Wayy overdue, let’s go
Great video! I had trouble understanding at times, usually towards the end of your sentences hah. but keep up the entertaining & educational videos !
Wow such an awesome video😍😍😍
Loved this.
Thank you so much for the video! I am preparing to do a 1 week detox this month. Does it include removing audiobooks and podcasts?
I love how you put as many meme sound effects as possible. Like a Kracc Bacc tier amount.
Your smile is beautiful!
This guy is great!
Im going through this at this moment rn. Its 10 pm and instead os studying I've been watching youtube soo I'm actually watching this while looking for motivation so thank u for the vid and thank utube for the recommendation
Thumbnail is soo dope 🤣🤣
Bro, please share the app you use for creating all these beautiful animations ❤️. Also share the video editing app please 🙏🏻 . I love these animations along with informative things. Feels so nice to understand ❤️
I had a question about reintroducing some things back into the mix such as video games and light social media usage into your weekly activities without falling back into the trap. How would you go about doing that? Would it be some time limit-based thing that you could probably place on your devices?
You can also use app-timers in your phone to control your app usage time. It helps a lot. Plus having a plan for the day and having a few hard things to do on that list can help a lot too.
Could u guys do another Q&A video? I have some questions I would like yall to give some tips on🤓
liked the video even before watching it as Ik it's gonna be awesome 😆
Hahaha 🤪
This is definetly the motivation I needed to do a detox bc I am on school vaca so it's gonna be great and hopefully I'll get into doing more during that week and being more productive. Thank you.
I just cannot understand how your channel didn't reach 1 million yet ,!!
🥵 thank you thank you, we’re hustling
Fan from India,ur videos seems realistic i like them.
Hey Mike...great video..never missed your any video
Just a question : can anyone stay away from over stimulating things for a longer period, mean for 2 or three months?? Or is it really impossible?? Or if possible is it good to do ??
It is possible, just take it one day at a time
Bro i think i need this right now
We gotchu
❤ Thanks for your tips. I did use them for a recent exam and passed. ❤
How come your phone battery lasts for over 5 days? Anyways, great video. I am switching to buttons phone and only installed useful apps such as bank app, map, podcast etc. I feel a lot better and less stress.
I wouldn't do this for a long time. I got into a burnout because I left out the things I enjoy in my daily life. My day was just about work and studying. I thought I was energetic while I was actually running on adrenaline. My doctor told me to reintroduce hobbies and things I enjoy into my day. Reducing social media is not wrong but from time to time it should be ok.
Yes total cutout from more stimulating dopamine sources would be a bit ridiculous. If the only dopamine hit we get is from work/study, i think it could spiral to workaholic. I think the goal for this method is to slowly reintroduce things we actually enjoy doing as recreation (music, exercise, reading, etcetc) so we dont get addicted to the dangerous stuff like mindless social media scrolling.
I never realized this but I think I might need to try this. I’ve been experiencing weird muscle spasms or smth and weird emotions probably cuz I read too much manga.
Gonna try this… did ur days feel longer during the detox? More time to get things done ?
Hey sir ... I'm studying for medical entrance exams and I'm going to try this challenge cause whenever i study i got distracted 😅 but i can't put my phone away cause i study online ... but I'm gonna give a try atleast ... and i will come next week to update .....
If you think it's depression, try a detox. Everything this guy just explained sounds like my lows and my gray days.
We all are overly stimulated all. of. the. time.
Glad I stumbled upon this.
*Amazing* ♥️
Thanks!
It was pretty adorable that you sincerely confess you cheated the process also it was like boromir regret to scare frodo cause of the irresistible attraction of the one ring
Is this that guy from the Grammarly ad? Good stuff
Have you decided if you still gonna play videogames? I really like it, but I feel like I always get sucked back into doing it obsessively and wasting time
yo i had a question. so at 6:24 you said that our pleasure threshold increases if we perform pleasurable activities and that's why we don't get much pleasure as we used to before in those activities. So is there a way or can there be a way to decrease our pleasure threshold? Like we can decrease the threshold bar and won't it just be known as dopamine detox? If the bar is lowered significantly, it'll benefit us. I'd love to learn more about this from u guys and also the ones from reading this comment!
Andrew Huberman goes into this in detail. Search his name and dopamine detox.
@@timandmonica aight
thanks a lot mate
Very complex topic, but TLDR, reduce how often we are highly stimulated, and don’t chase pleasures.
@@CajunKoiAcademy Yessss that's what I was thinking, but in today's society the atmosphere of "internet" has taken a toll over everyone. Even if we try going off from all social media platforms (Which I am doing from the past 3 months haha, haven't opened anything except mail) I still need updates for my college which come on telegram, so I need my phone to call my friends to ask about them. I can't really find a way to just go "monk mode" and leave all pleasurable activities.
I have a very important question... please reply..i have social media accounts..but those don't distract me..i just don't like to chat with someone or scrolling or watching shitty stuff. I don't like fb not because it's time wasting..i just don't like it..but man i can't control the urge to watch anime , reading manga.. how can you manage to control it?I love anime,manga ,games ..it hampers my study..i have entrance exams a week after.. still I'm watching anime or reading manga..how can I control it?
What's the difference between the dopamine released on the "cut out" list and "okay to do list"? E.g. is the dopamine released from exercise or a hobby different from gaming? E.g. why do we know that one is better than the other? Is it related to physical energy expenditure?
It's just about what you want your brain to associate with as pleasurable activities.
If you want to exercise, read more, meditate.
Then having no stimuli, will make it so your brain seeks those activities for their hits of dopamine.
But if you don't want to exercise, don't want to study, or read books. Or maybe books are a distraction to you. Then it would obviously have the opposite effect.
Have you noticed any more longer term effects of the detox?
u have to have a real goal for the detox to work
Most grateful for this video 🧿🧿❤️❤️ Stay blessed buddy..🧿🧿 A fellow doctor 🙂🙂😌😌😇😇🙌🏻🙌🏻
Ready to do a 7 day dopamine detox
I love going to my app find a hike to a unknown place i have never been, get in the car and go do it, so relaxing, most of the times i do 10 to 12 km of hikking
Love this blog-kind format, and seeing scenarios other than your house's interior is so cool. Keep it up! 🫶
Thanks! Gonna see how to incorporate this style more
Watching this is my last dose of dopamine before doing the detox 😅
Damn, how was your detox, rookie? 👏🏼
Your video look sooooo nice. What camera+lens are you using?
Sony A6400 with a sigma lens
Can I get the music link you make? I’m obsessed
Well I'm starting dopamine detox today since it is my final exams week and it's my graduation year,I hope this works
If u have adhd like me u are thinking of researching this to try to do it , apparently for us who have adhd it can make things worst D:. Wish I could try it tho
really .can you tell me why it doesnt work for an adhd person?
@Fatiha mir from what I saw since adhd brains already have faulty dopamine system the dopamine crash would be much worse ( might make more impulsive decisions) and also some people are functional because of their phones like calendar / reminders / alarms so it would make us even less able to accomplish tasks enhancing the feeling of ' failure ' .
Maybe this should be used but more on a targeted way like for example if someone has a social media addiction, instead of detoxing from everything, just reducing the harmful ones and also be careful about not replacing the addiction . So balance and structure I guess
(But it also depends from person to person)
There are definitely modified protocols that can be useful for anyone!
thinking of doing a detox soon and i had a question about music during a detox is music alright if its like a record player or radio since its not a phone or pc
Being busy and still being able to make electonic music is a struggle for me. I'm completing a teacher training in order to be a visual art teacher while teaching at the same time. The thing is that most of time, whenever I make music I become sort of high as if I was on amphetamine and can no longer stop... or when I manage to stop after two hours (because I have to go to sleep or else) it's often frustrating... So I end up producing very little because of the intense drive the creation process makes me feel... and I m really frustated at times because of this... If anyone has an idea, you are welcome to tell me any advice. (btw english is not my mothertong..)
bro I would pay to do video editing and sound design all day, that’s my hobby and I get very few time doing it because of school, you should try something like studying all afternoon for 7 days straight without any leisure activities afterwards and we’ll see how it goes
It's your hobby now because you're in school, and school is your job. I would pay to read books and learn all day, but that's only because I have a job.
how can I use it for work and communicate with family during detox? any tips?
I noticed you use the SonyXM4s. Do noise cancelling headphones make a big difference in your productivity?
For me yes. I live on a rather busy street and it’s very loud outside with dogs barking, sirens, people screaming. Sometimes I don’t even listen to music, I just have a fireplace sound and noise cancel haha
I'm already in my second week without social media and tbh I don't feel that I want to use them again I'll try to remove more (unnecessary dopamine sources)
I wanna do a detox, but as a junior in college I feel like if I give up my phone then I’ll miss out on my friends trying to reach out to me
Talking about dopamine detox while putting high music in the background lmao
Finally a video that explains why we are unmotivated because of all teknololigy we have today. we need to getbored out of our mind. thats were all ideas come from.
whats the name of the song I love it
and where can I find it by chance
at around about 9:00, you mentioned about how humans scarily have little control over dopamine. This isn't just true for dopamine though. I've had eczema all my life, and I have improved massively at resisting, but it took me until about 2 years ago (I was 12) or maybe even one year later to get the willpower to resist. Resistance against instinct is something that can often be overlooked and I reckon(although I have no clue how) that it could even be implemented into the routine to practice resistance or, something like that anyway
That's a hard ask and not great for the long run because we are designed to prefer comfort over hardship. However, if we incorporate things like goals, tasks and rewards, it will make the act of resisting attractive and easier. What do you think?
@@CajunKoiAcademyThat’s actually a good way of looking at it, great idea! although for there to be rewards built into the routine that would imply that you give yourself the rewards and have to regulate them yourself, which would be fine for a tora, but as a kitsune I would probably forget it for a couple of days after a while and end up giving up because it wouldn’t seem important. and what kind of task would you be rewarding yourself for? maybe if you have any specific ideas those could be developed? i don’t have any right now but i might come up with one by tomorrow and give a better response.
@@CajunKoiAcademy Actually, I've just thought of one I think I'll remember, at least until it becomes normal. Being confident in a large group of people I don't know very well is hard for me and I don't often do it at all. I don't think it's dopamine I get from not trying to be confident but it's definitely the easy way out. I managed it today at one point, and it was quite draining, so if I were to reward myself for doing that in some way, that could create good habits and I could have less anxiety!
This was quite a different experience as a participant, even though I did the detox for only four days, it was an extremely unique experience.
Edit:
Day 1 was pretty uneventful. I was still feeling extremely unmotivated, but I decided to go along and complete my regular studies. Surprisingly, it took me way less time to get stuff done, and I did not in fact need music to get into the groove. I was out of home for most of the day to get some practical assignments done, and that kind of kept me busy and off my PC and phone.
On day 2, I forgot about the detox and opened youtube in the morning, but a cajun koi video was on my home page and I remembered what I was doing. I set a timer for around fifteen minutes and meditated (Idk why I don't do it normally I just felt the urge to). Then I got out of bed, ate breakfast, and left, for the same assignments (I had to do a survey over roughly four days, which were coincidentally the days I did the detox)
Day 3 was hard. Without coffee keeping me awake, I was less active throughout the day and I often caught myself blankly staring at the wall, which is something I don't normally do. Since I still needed my smartphone and PC to study, I asked my brother to study in my room and catch me if I open youtube or anything else for entertainment. One thing I noticed though, was that the small things in life certainly seemed a lot more exciting now, even from public bus rides to eating scrambled eggs.
On day 4, I woke up early and exercised a bit because I was sore from the past few days of constant traveling and stuff. Invited my brother to study in my room once again while I converted the survey into my project and wrote a report. After I was done, I submitted it during the afternoon and mine was actually one of the first to get checked. My teacher (whom I have an extremely good relationship with), called me and told me that she had liked my project the most so far and that I had done a very good job (in context, she has been extremely friendly to me from the very beginning, and even helped me get out of depression and also tried to defend me when my artist account got leaked within the school).
So I decided to give myself a little treat and watched a few youtube videos before I slept. Surprisingly, I had little to no urge to watch youtube videos the next morning when I woke up and didn't crave coffee as much anymore. I swapped it for tea.
I've noticed a significant improvement in my mood and motivation, so I suggest everyone try it at least for three or more days and see if they like it. One thing to note is that you cannot, or should not stay in detox for prolonged periods like a month or so, which might have pretty unintended and harmful effects.
In summary, it was difficult and that is why I liked it. Once you develop a tendency to resist, you naturally gain a certain appreciation for many things we take for granted in our daily lives.
Expand?
Yes please expand
@@-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-... expand as in explain more or expand as in do it more?
@@caspyberry4951 explain more? Like how come you only stopped at 4 days? How did you feel throughout those 4 days? Did you like it or hate it? Etc thanks
@@CajunKoiAcademy done 👍
Is a dopamine detox good for ADHD?
can i use yt to watch videos (related to studies)?
May I ask why the detox includes cutting out music?
Iam starting today my dopamine detox of 7 days will see how much i change
Is it okay to meditate 🧘♀️ during dopamine detoX
Why does dropping dopamine makes us tired?
I can I ask, how did you schedule your day?
How long did you take brakes if you took?
and if you took brakes, what did you during your brakes?
I also have the same question.
What to do during study breaks?
Finally a video that explains why we are unmotivated because of all teknologi we have today. we need to get bored out of our mind. thats were all ideas come from.
bro can u put all the speed learning tips in one vid
Ur the best
Doesn't tea also have caffeine?
You said no music, so why are the headphones in? 1:32 (jk-no hate)
Which country do you guys live?
Do you really have to quit music and podcasts because for me that's really a way to calm down and I don't think I would be able to live in complete silence
I live in South Africa. We have rolling blackouts totalling 10 hours per day. We are being forced to look up from our phones!
😯 Where in South Africa
10hrs😂🤣
but I thought you said no music... why are you doing music then?
Let's go
Let's implement it in 2023
I once again had the power to turn 1k to 1.1k and i love it!
Maybe I missed something in the vid but by Day 7 what was it that was causing you to be so tired? Was it just that you were relaxed, or the lack of stimulation made you fatigued? I was confused on that part someone please explain lol
Hey there! I was feeling tired because distractions kept pulling me away. That lack of focus made it hard to focus on my priorities and get things done. Hope this answered your question. 🙏🏼
is listening to music considered as dopamine rush?
Yes
Definitely
bro me also was gettin the last drops of dopamine before dopamine detox lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Honoured to be the last boost of dopamine for you. 🫡 Good luck on your detox, rookie! Hope the dopamine from our video helps you survive the detox.
i also watched your protocol thx ,can i watch my lectures on youtube . because i have a very big back log in physics and also im now doing a dopamine detox @@CajunKoiAcademy
@@CajunKoiAcademy hi I'm here after 7 days and finally finished my detox and I was felling really refreshed and the 3rd day was very boring and so hard
but the thing is I improved some in my academics thanks for the video
this TH-cam channel is the best i have ever seen in my life thanks cajun koi academy😘🥰😇😉😀🤗🤗
High five, rookie! I am so proud of you. 🔥@@mohammedakmal9592
Man, I'm really good at this. Not because it's my choice. My parents refuse to let me have fun.
🤣💔
Bro be still thinking about youtube money that rewards his dopamine 😂
I am also trying to do dopamine detox
Good luck!