I'm 42 yrs old now. I've Been a heavy addict since I was 16, 3 years ago, I Lost my wife and daughter because of heavy porn use . The guilt almost killed me, so I said enough and decided to escape from this shithole. I read a ton of books (the only one that changed me was "Befapless" because it had the most realistic steps for quitting), joined communities(like "r/nofap"), and gave it all to quit. . I'm clean for 3 years now. I feel regret every day about the time that passed. I wasted my life. I wish I hadn't. God, I wish I hadn't. If you're young reading this, please do anything at all necessary to overcome this ASAP!
@@sparkpeaks2430 once u quit u realise how realy lonely u are so u go back but instead go pray (if u believe in god ) , exercise daily , go to the nature espiecialy the beach and talk with people daily , sleep well , eat good food and there u go ul be fine
could’ve been worse. my friend is addicted to a hard drug and feels he can’t stop he’s only 27 but his health is declining is organs are failing it’s sad
Actual Summary of video: -Dopamine is limited in supply. Baseline of dopamine determines how you feel longterm. -Any form of pleasure-> peaks in dopamine, drop in baseline after. -A low baseline makes you feel uninterested in low dopamine releasing tasks so you seek more exciting things which leads to even lower dope baseline. -Understand that you can manage your dopamine to control those peaks and drops in ways that will keep your baseline high long term and short term. -High baseline-> high motivation and satisfaction Suggested method to stop addiction: Go told turkey or limit dopamine evoking behaviour. My suggestion: Replace high dopamine activity with lower dopamine activity and keep decreasing until you are where you want to be.
@@filipfric Its definitely not a guaranteed method but it can work for some. Addiction is not easy to overcome. But i think it would be beneficial for most people if you make decisions using this dopamine management information as a framework. Keeping this in mind will help recognize and manage addiction of any degree.
I went cold turkey on smoking it worked out great, because i quit a job i hated, which gave me anxiety and i wanted to die all the time. Been cold turkey quit caffeine from new year, 4 weeks without it, but after 4th week, since i felt so unproductive and zombie like....i mean i was not even able to function very properly. I could manage the sinple, but i think my depression just kicked in harder. I started drink 1 cup only of coffee and suddenly i was able to do those difficult tasks again...and go out to excercise and meet people. I wanted to quit coffee because of my insomnia and because i don't think we are meant to be taking something else to be energized. I wanted to see how far i could go on my own energy. Maybe i should have given it more time, but will try again, with keto diet & intermittent fasting
@@j.h.8257 thank you my friend 😊🙏 i will do so again, i took some tips from that, the importance of daylight to kickstart hormone receptors I think a lot of health issues has got to do with me avoiding the sun due to photosensitivity in eyes to light exposure, i think it started when i got sevetely burnt out as in my brain overheated, whole sysyem collapsed, fried and malfunctioned. But i will have to expose myself to that which feels painful or difficult. It's the only way ✊✌
@@000Emiryes it's too hard , for few days ... You have to push yourself, there's no other option. First decide what u have to do , nd do it anycase ... U will not die , keep that reminder ❤ All the best
I remember after a month of no porn, extremely limited masturbation, and daily 3-5 minute cold showers I always felt extremely energetic and grounded. I felt in control of my own emotions and over all life. I’m gonna get back to this.
it feels like im two completely different persons when i am normal compared to when i have an urge to watch porn, how can i stay myself during those hard periods and resist the temptation? I have been going down a black hole of thrill seeking with more and more taboo pornography and am afraid of what i will become if i keep going on this path
Well its not you are 2 different person, it's that you have an urge, stop it, do something else even if not that thrilling, the first few weeks it's hard but it will be easier and you will reach a point where you don't even think about it. Just give it time and effort at the beginning and will be easier, like anything else at the end of the day
@@Hassan-zw9tbyou have to understand it first. You are a different person. Its survival instinct that humans have had for thousands of years. To procreate. Its normal. You just can't let it consume you. And don't be down on urself when you do give in. Idk what else to say, just know ull never be perfect. But you can definitely try to be..
You gotta have a good attitude about it too or it’s not gunna work, I suggest replacing a bad habit (ie:addiction) with a good habit. Ever wanted to learn something new? Get into better shape? Learn an instrument? It takes 18 mins a day everyday and in a year you’ll have 109.5 hours in that one skill alone. That’s just one year imagine if you did it your whole life. Plus you’d be growing so much faster that there’d be an exponential growth in no time.
Creative outlets help vent emotions. But yeah the only way to end addiction is obviously not continuing. Easier said than done. Like taking a fist up the ass, if you can handle it.
“Good addition” vs bad addiction. I know that “good addition” is still addiction. But try to create a new environment for yourself to make your life better.
@@Nick-z2owell learning about the science behind addiction certainly worked for me. It's easier for me to quit these activities now since I'm aware of the consequences and doing research on this topic really helped me understand it better and convince my mind. Now I don't crave as much as I used to before.
I’m a 1996 kid. First part of my childhood was without a phone or internet. Second part was when mobile phones became a thing, computers became thin, wifi became a thing and then online porn became a thing. Sometimes I feel sorry for kids these days. They will never know how good we had it! Before all of this BS the internet has brought. New age problems.
This explains why in society we’ve seen such a huge increase in “mental illness” now I’m not saying that it isn’t a thing but with the availability of tech that peaks our dopamine and is highly addictive, we get more people that are diagnosed as depressed or anxious and like he said ADHD
ADHD was first diagnosed before the TV was invented. I understand that ADHD symptoms can be present for various reasons. But people who are diagnosed with ADHD have to give current personal account and an account from a parent of caregivers account of you as a child. If it was just from tech they wouldn’t be diagnosed, because it wouldn’t be prevalent in childhood. I do think that hubermans advice is helpful to improve ADHD symptoms, even with people with ADHD. But blaming tech on the rise of diagnosis as appose to the rise of ADHD like symptoms is really unhelpful and creates stigmatising beliefs for people with ADHD.
As Sam Vaknin says true love and intimacy is the ultimate addiction, therefore if you are intimate and truly falling in love with your partner, it reduces the need for other addictions, such as Facebook and social media.
Pseudo ADHD, though. Unlike the actual thing, simply restricting most fast-food technology reverts the pseudo ADHD symptoms whereas this will do nothing of the sort with actual ADHD (even though it may somewhat alleviate its symptoms)
ADHD is actually nothing more than low dopamine baseline(that's why they use stimulants to treat it). Some people are born with low dopamine activity , but the symptoms?? With Tech's overstimulation we now all have them
I am a sugar addict to a ridiculous point and I’m a healthcare provider. My goal is giving up sugar this year. If I don’t accomplish anything else that’s a big one. This is so helpful and exposing the reality of addiction. Thank you so much.
Turned 59, sugar addict to the max and started noticing every body had diabetes or prediabetes, high blood pressure, my kids brought it home by turning down their sugar intake. Started listening to Ken Berry, started carnivore lot of boneless sirloin (cheap but good) Costco rotisserie chicken, eggs bacon & butter, 3 weeks in no sugar, no carbs, down 4lbs and it's worth it, don't wait as long as I did. I started at 160lbs trying to get to 130lb by June, 2lbs a week but why not. Dont wait till you notice everybody else getting sick. Be an influence on your kids, you're so young, I wish I had started no sugar at your age. It's a terrible addiction. More advice than cocaine, I've heard.
@@SosimpletohearHimhi Andrea, if after 3 weeks you are down 4lb maybe adjust your goal slightly just so you can make it more realistic the last thing you want is to get demotivated because you didn’t hit your goal of 2lb per week by June.. but honestly well done 🙌🏽 hats off to you 🎩
So abstinence is the key. Seems like a fight you ll never win but we need to understand that feeling it s temporary. So ask yourself "Am I ok with myself in my actual state?" If your answer it s no start to imagine the person that u want to become. Visualize it! Are you happy? Smiling? Making the people you Love happy being around you? Are you providing , excelling , resolving problems? As Jordan Peterson said : "Don't sacrifice who you could be in the name of who you are." For myself I m actually stuck. I left the job I hated to learn new skills and start a new career. I m in the point where I know I need excelence to achieve my goals. But as a drug addict (cigaretts,masturbation and sugar addict and ex alchool , weed and coke addict) , I raised my brain as a spolish kid. Can t handle borrowness and Have no discipline. I m not ok with myself. Who I am it s not who I want to be. I m 40 years old , but game on bitch! If u r Reading those words and having same kind of issues Just join me. Let s become our best version and leave this world a lil bit better it was! God bless you Brothers and sisters !
@@jakemorrison8507 lil least than 48h without smoking ... the colateral effects of abstinence are horrible. Was easier quit hard drugs than this shit . But it won t last . Stay focus , stay hard brother 🚀🤝🏻🗿🍷🙏🏼
You've just got to know to take regular breaks and savour peace and quiet (and nature). I used to smoke and smokers have to realise that the 'high' a cigarette gives you is just taking you to the kind of level a non-smoker spends half his life around. Once that cigarette finishes, your mood then spirals downwards until you restart the cycle and have another cig. Now, I'm addicted to 10-mile walks before breakfast which are helping with healing the damage I took on to my lungs and heart (amongst other areas).
This is why meditation is extremely important. Among the multitudes of benefits a practiced meditator will experience, at the very least it allows the conscious mind to rest and recover from constant overstimulation. It is also why meditation is so difficult for many people. It can be extremely uncomfortable to take a break from that stimulation and be content doing nothing but breathing and feeling your body. This calm and stillness can eventually induce a parasympathetic state similar to when you sleep, which is when the body does the most healing. Without enough sleep and meditation, the body can never fully recover from compounding long term damage.
Its not the conscious mind that needs rested its the subconscious mind of the ego that needs quietened. Our conscious mind needs to be firing. This is what 'being in the now' is. Conscious loving awareness.❤
I've been trying to regulate my dopamine baseline for a pretty long time now, and I believe I'm in a pretty good place, but not ideal. Problem is, it's really hard to follow through with these commitments since life usually doesn't give you the respite required for you to heal. There's no time to limit yourself and reset your baseline when there's always always stuff to do. So next best option? Find low domapinergic activities you enjoy. For me it turned out to be calisthenics and cooking, especially if it's a new recipe. I still entertain unhealthy high dopaminergic activities, but they are slowly falling out of my routine, as I both actively avoid them and also don't hit the same highs while entertaining them. This is a long and hard process, but it really has brought more joy to my life and kept my mental health in control.
@Stephen Doty thanks for the warning bro, but I found that doing handstand pushups over the hot pan to be even more challenging. On the plus side, I don't need to visit the hair salon as often
I’m an ex amphetamine user and there are a few things that make quitting much easier. 1. L-tyrosine, potassium, and b vitamins in the day, l-tyrosine is an amino acid that helps restore natural levels of dopamine and the vitamins are to replenish the depleted vitamins in the body. 2. 5-htp , magnesium and trazadone at night to help replenish serotonin levels and sleep properly. None of these substances are addictive and help detox not feel sooo horrible that you go get more of the drug. As a matter of fact, what took weeks to recover when I didn’t take these supplements only took a few days. Day 3 withdrawal barely even tired and went to work like normal. Hopefully this helps someone out there because it sure helped me.
Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.
Can you help with the reliable source I would really appreciate it. Many people talk about mushrooms and psychedelics but nobody talks about where to get them. Very hard to get a reliable source here in Australia. Really need!
Yes, dr.sporesss. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
I wish they were readily available in my place. Microdosing was my next plan of care for my husband. He is 59 & has so many mental health issues plus probable CTE & a TBI that left him in a coma 8 days. It's too late now I had to get a TPO as he's 6'6 300+ pound homicidal maniac. He's constantly talking about killing someone. He's violent. Anyone reading this Familiar w/ BPD know if it is common for an obsession with violence.
I have a TH-cam channel & I fell into the trap of constantly checking if I new subscribers and felt bad when I didn’t, I would make a video and post it and if it didn’t do well I got depressed and wondered why, so I started second guessing myself and making videos that I thought the audience would like rather than just posting videos of what I enjoyed, and this led me to not enjoy the actual activity I was filming, I was doing it for TH-cam rather than for myself and fell out of love with it, I am getting better now, I only film occasionally now and actually have begun to enjoy the activity for what it is, my passion. It has had a profound effect on me and I’m working through it. I know this sounds trivial but it took me to a very dark place.
I just worked out for the first time in five months and really if I'm being honest, I'm being more serious about it than I have in over a year. I turned to alchohol and yes still bought beer tonight even after my workout....but it just doesn't hit the same because my body is already high off of my natural dopamine release from the brain. I believe if I keep this up within a week I won't be buying my after work beers any more....they were originally just every few weekend beers, then over a few years every weekend beers, then through covid....every day beers. So I know I lived most of my life without beer....time to get back to baseline! Thank you so much! Exercise, being outside and walking and biking, and being creative have always been my original escapes.....oh and READING! I miss doing that!
Consistency is the key. I'd go for a few weeks or a month hard then stop. you get a lot more satisfaction doing it regularly , and you will see results
I can't remember where I heard it, but those of us with adhd or add, ect, need to learn how to be comfortable being bored again. Internet has overclocked us beyond what we can handle. I am more manic than I have been for years
and thats where meditation/mindfulness comes in to play. just accepting the boredom and exploring it and training to focus on a single thing are key to overcoming adhd symptoms
I experienced this when I was addicted to gambling for years. I used to not want to do anything, not care about anything else, had my apartment really dirty, it robed me of a lot of things, happiness, friendship, money (obviously) and everything that comes with it like going out and dating
I have a friend who went through exactly the same experience as you. 30+ years gambling addiction and talks about the devastation he has caused himself and to others. The lying etc in a desperate urge to get some money and continue where he left off and lost everything he earned for decades, no girlfriend (even when he did he broke up as he was always pissed off with the money he lost and never had the money to look after her at times even for a basic meals, no real friends as he was so addicted the gambling which became his friend, his girlfriend, his everything. He is 15 days clean now….and I am trying to help him with activities to kill the boredom etc. You all need to look to the future and not to the past. As the past is too painful to reflect upon. Just remember a famous saying that I make him quote every day, it’s by a guy called William Bolitha, it goes ‘a gambler is nothing but a man who makes his living out of false hope’! How true it is. Stay strong and remain strong…good luck for the future to my friend and all those in the same boat.
what a beautiful comment, thank you for writing that. Your friend is lucky to have someone like you. I hope he doesnt mess it up over and over again now and you don't instantly drop him. My dad ended up saving me 2 times after knowing about my addiction and before completely stopping end of june 2022, I ended up wasting all my money again, had to take a small loan to keep up. Now I'm over the past as it really does hurt too much, but it's part of my life and currently I am on a great path, physically and mentally. Mentally getting over everything is this rough as I'm one year until finally graduating and earning decent money finally at 32 next year@@1azrealdeal
It's almost like there's a reason God tells us to avoid certain sins. Every sin we commit gives us a high dopamine response. In turn it wrecks us. But nobody pays attention until some science man on the TV screen tells us the consequences
I was thinking the same thing. The main difference is that sin has eternal consequences and most people don’t want to believe or think about it. Neuroscience keeps things safely in the physical realm where sure, people suffer, but no one has to answer to God for hurting others or look to Jesus for salvation from the consequences.
Apart from obvious sins such as lust or drunkenness, I guess the bible addresses the dopamine problem through Ecclesiastes by saying pleasures are in vain
Learning about dopamine and feeling exactly what he's talking about is giving me a spike of dopamine. I'm addicted to herring the facts from huberman, he helps me to understand and confirm how and why the way i feel.
Great video cheers! I'm looking at my addictions, tobacco, coffee, social media ect and looking to leave those behind. I want to become less reliant especially on man made things that have me hooked. I want to feel alive again, so I'm also setting a two hour a day reading task to drive my mind clear of these things and give a new perspective on life in general. Wild animals live day to day, the only thing they can do is to live for the moment and be present, not thinking about their next fix every hour of the day. This is where I wanna be.
I fucked up my teenage years because of this. At 12 my parents got me a gaming PC. I played all day until 14. It started to get boring. I started weed after and got hooked on it. I abused it. During the years I smoked when I was sober nothing felt good. I quit at 17 and since then everything went back to normal. When you don't enjoy a harmless activity anymore, please don't indulge in substances. Take a break from it a few months, focus on being productive and you'll enjoy it again, I promise (I enjoy video games again, never abused them since then).
Damn, feels like he is talking about me in this video. I loved playing video games, but now even this doesn't make me happy anymore, the last 2-3 months I've been depressed. I used to smoke a lot of weed and drink beer all the time, but stopped it all since a month ago.
How'd you remain strong when that little devil wanted to get high or buzzed? I'm struggling and have struggled with this for so long and I'm kind of sick now of being a slave to that demon
Totally agree. Another big thing is what's our motivation to engage in certain behaviors. Do we do things each day to get pleasure, or are we doing it for a higher spiritual purpose? The more we can do things for the latter reason, the less we will be controlled by dopamine in this way.
Thank you for easily the clearest explanation of addiction/ compulsive behavior and corresponding depression. I can sum up the lesson by considering the importance of a balanced life.
I've been wandering since few months as if i got ADHD but now I feel it is just an irregulated dopamine baseline. My behavioral addictions/obsessions are : more screentime and social media, messed sleep schedule, procrastination, pornography contents. My journey begins here, I am not going back to those obsessions. for 30 days i will work on balancing dopamine baseline level. Now my goal is, I'm just gonna use social media for 30 minutes everyday, and get 7 hrs of sleep and no procrastination on daily task. MY journey begins here: Day 1/30: ✅ Day 2/30:✅ Day 3/30: Day 4/30: Day 5/30: Day 6/30: Day 7/30: Day 8/30: Day 9/30: Day 10/30: Day 11/30: Day 12/30: Day 13/30: Day 14/30: Day 15/30: Day 16/30: Day 17/30: Day 18/30: Day 19/30: Day 20/30: Day 21/30: Day 22/30: Day 23/30: Day 24/30: Day 25/30: Day 26/30: Day 27/30: Day 28/30: Day 29/30: Day 30/30: Nov 7. I can't always be like this.
This video helped me so much, i use to workout , swim, and dance everyday and drink with my friends on the weekends. Now i sit silently in my basement hooked up to a machine constantly monitoring my dopamine. According to the machine I’m very happy!
Dаmn it, by looking through some comments like these two guys in this section, I actually think there's a bigger problem with IQ than Dopamine burnout in population
My addiction was anorexia and bulimia. I was always trying to chase the high it gave me. My behaviours became more and more extreme which lead to me trying to take my life. I had an ED for 26 years after years in hospital. I am nearly 1 year in recovery.
@@krayziejerry No that's fine, the high purging gave me. The high from fasting, each time I would need to go longer and longer without eating. Its really hard to explain. It also nu,bed me as well. It is a horrible cycle.
@@krayziejerryI've been in the same situation, too. Eating disorders are competitive. How much more can I lose? How much longer can I go without food? For me, the high was that hunger feeling and plowing through it. It was satisfying and mentally rewarding. We push ourselves to extremes and it feels good.
Thank you for sharing. that is not easy to share publicly. I hope you're as strong to do it in person so that others get inspired by your vulnerability. I try to do it too and sometimes am met with a pause
So break addiction by breaking addiction for 15 days. Got it. Actually good info but more emphasis on the actual process of quitting during those 2 weeks. Cold Turkey is one method he mentioned, or tapering off. Removing yourself from the environment completely or changing the environment to prevent temptation would help. Note taking whenever you relapse to prevent future relapse
Agreed. The title is unfortunately misleading as there isn't any advice here except for abstinence. Tell an addicted person to just stop doing the thing they're addicted to and see how well that works.
To be honest I think life should return to the way it was before 1995. It is extremely discouraging to see so many people, especially ages 50 or below, addicted to their phones
Not to downplay the information, but it sounded like the summary of the final 30 seconds of How To was simply, “Stop doing the thing you’re addicted to”.
We are in the age of information and now more than ever, learning to align energy fields within (Chakra) is so helpful in this quest for calm, serine thoughts of love. This dimension is full of material growth and missing all the true gifts that are inside of us. I pray in power that brothers and sisters can be still and appreciate the silence of the great spiritual awakening. Protection and Abundance to all
The highest dopamine expenditure for me was on food. But I benefited from Ramadan this year by eating only one meal every 24 hours. I feel much better. I have lost a lot of weight and my happiness baseline has increased.
Thank you for such a informative and helpful video! I am atm going through a addiction and so is a very good female friend of mine! Needless to say we are having problems with our relationship. I’m forwarding this video to her now and praying for both her and I to get through this together… Thank you brother
Wuts all this shit about porn anyway? I guess sum people addicted to that also! Jus SMH 🤦♂️ I’m addicted to coke! My gurl is addicted to meth!!!… I know we love each other but when she leaves home for four or five days and comes back and sleeps for three or four days straight what the fuck you do???? All will be good for a week or two then the “Thing” over powers her and I can’t compete with that shit!!! Lol, yeah we got problems Farso!!! And it ain’t jacking off to porn!!! Ha I’m starting the 14 day challenge Monday and hopefully my gurl will be here to join me… Dun even know why I’m typing this shit here! …
@@msimon6808 And I know way to much about PTSD Bro! I spent 13 years in Search & rescue! I’ve seen enough death ,well… I’m getting off topic here! I thought if I kept enough “blow” here it would be enough to curb her craving for the meth! I was oh so wrong about that! All that accomplished was me bringing back a old demon I had overcome for 20 years ago!!! Now the both of us got a serious problem… I believe I can overcome this! It’s her I have my doubts about. She dun been through two rehab programs and still using! She has a great mother ( that has given up on her) and a absolutely amazing 9 year old daughter!!! She is pushing everyone away from her that truly loves her! I’m not angry! My heart is broken for her!… It’s truly sad…
I would also add- breathwork (breath of life and long slow breaths) movement practice of any kind and Somatic Experiencing and body based therapies are great for decreasing the discomfort of withdrawal symptoms
"You will never be addicted again" is the title of the video. The method? Stop pursuing the activities you're addicted to that are depleting dopamine. Absolutely groundbreaking! This is like telling an addict to simply stop being addicted. Can't believe I wasted 7 whole minutes on this video.
I was a tobacco smoker. The only 2 times, I could quit smoking, cold turkey, were the times that I had huge incentives & hopes. One was when my soulmate ( a non- smoker)drew the line for me in a gentle way. My love for him made me quit instantly. The second time, when I found out that I was pregnant. I believe hope and creating incentives, along with self- control helped me.
One of the biggest problems with modern society is this easy access of dopamine in the transition to the information age from the industrial revolution. I grew up in the 90s before computers and internet were mainstream and the most I had was an N64 and TV. I would go outside, play and do things, and that's become harder as the age of technology progresses. I make it a point not to use my phone unless I absolutely need to or maybe once every couple of days to post a picture of my instagram. It's the computer screen that I'm really addicted to, and so sometimes, rather than sit on the screen, I'll put headphones on and just listen to youtube vids while laying in bed. I try to take even just 10 minutes to engage in a creative drawing or writing activity, and go on at least one walk a day.
In a lot of ways, life was simpler before smartphones. That's a given. Nowadays, it really comes down to having some type of moderation in your daily life, to balance out the activities that are important and others we do just for fun or wasting time. I've been experimenting with only going on Facebook & Instagram at the end of the week. It's a work in progress, but I have noticed a difference in my mood when I'm not on my accounts everyday. I consider TH-cam the exception since I mainly use it for news, educational, relaxation, and comedy content. Looks like you've got a similar routine and I hope it continues to benefit your well being.
my guru told me to follow these two- 1.always carry any keypad phone .. 2.fix sleeping time ,10pm to 6am... (use cyber cafe for professional activity if highly necessary) these two techniques are itself a strong meditation that will give our mind a plenty of space to think out of box.. (I will try :))
the problem is not that most of the time we do know what is good and bad for us and we are also aware of that, the problem is that we live in a world of extremes and I am pretty sure lots of addictions, even seemingly mild ones, are related to compensation and release - people work hard in the week, so at the weekend they want to let off and "enjoy life" - one extreme leads to another...for fixing the fish, you need to change the water, you cannot have a healthy fish in unhealthy water.
We live in hell.. not many realise this, but we all feel the pain suffering and endless search to release our uncomfortable feelings all the time. We are imprisoned in our human meat suits, full of shit, figuratively and literally. A human body that leaks piss, poop, blood,sweat and even puss .. all day every day.. work a minds controlled insane mind..and we still can't figure out why we feel so much pain inside. Chasing our own tails. We are slaves, have to pay for their educating to work for them a slave job with a boss that engels us when to start working, pause and end working and do what he says. Eat, work sleep and repeat... that's the hair life.. Now repeat after me "I am free" And still human don't get it Hell of duality with the promise that you can "make" it.. if you do this, that, look pretty enough, act perfect, obey your boss, find a partner to contract up with, that's called" love", divorce after decade and repeat.. hamsterwheel. or stay single f*ck around, ly, cheat and make everyone unhappy...Humanity is lost in deceptions and lies. Soon everyone will see, when the phoenix will rise again, scriptures, their script, the bible will reveal where we really are. Wait until we get trump presented as Jesus. The sh*t show that this carnival circus is gets a reset.. they tell us everything. Not not many listen.. although we got eyes to see and ears to listen.
Interest is everything. Give something more and it will take more in return. Taking away from anything and everything else, whether it’s valuable or not. Unfortunately more often than not, it’s the positive things that deserve most our attention, but that high dopamine source, in whatever form, may be and most likely will consume that which is more a worthwhile energy release. It’s a tale born in that give and take, finding balance type talk. No mater the severity of the addiction or it’s importance or lack of, it’s always a worthwhile fight to subside a sadly singular or more acute “purpose”in any moment or in this life. Keep growing everyone.
In my eyes once you are addicted you will never be the same again, even if you stop. Depending how long your addiction was it changed the brain. You can get sober but first of all you can always relapse and second of all there will almost forever be temptations which are only there because you have been addicted. How to stop addiction? You have to commit 130% and even then it's not guaranted to stay like that but you basically have to change your whole mindset and make life almost only about stop using the substance/social media whatever, ver hard...
It takes insane willpower, and on top of it, everyone else is indulging, and nobody validates it, but yet you can see how it severely impacts your own life.
I agree that when you are addicted and depending on how long you’ve been in your addiction you are never the same. I believe that the dope which I have had a off and on addiction to Crank or Speed for about 30 years has changed my brain chemistry. I also had an addiction to Opiates but eventually I stopped using that because it was getting harder for me to get. At first I didn’t consider myself an addict because when I discovered I was 6 weeks pregnant on both of my pregnancies I had no problem quitting cold turkey all drugs, cigarettes and any alcohol. But once I had my children I started back on the Crank to lose the excess baby weight I gained and to have energy. But my addiction has gotten worse since 2016. I am severely depressed and can’ 7:29 t do anything unless I get loaded. I was diagnosed in 2018 with Multiple Sclerosis and that should have been enough to make me stop but it hasn’t. I believe my drug use caused me to get Multiple Sclerosis because Speed affects the central nervous system and MS affects the central nervous system too. One of the ways people can develop MS is being exposed to certain different chemicals. And I know that the ones who cook the Crank put different household chemicals like lye and brake cleaner and other ones too. I’m an idiot cos I know I’m snoring poison into my body. But I’m having mixed feelings about doing anymore drugs. I have found God and following God and continuing my druggie lifestyle doesn’t mix. I was told you can’t follow Jesus and still be holding the Devil’s hand. Someone is trying to send me a message cos’ the last 3 times I used just recently I got this horrible horrible headache that even Advil couldn’t take away. Then all 3 times I had nausea too. My gums are inflamed and probably infected too. I am slowly killing myself and I am now 53 and I think I’m getting too old for this shit. In Rehab they told us that addiction was a disease like if we had diabetes and we would have to deal with that for the rest of our or my life. But now I’m hearing videos on TH-cam that addiction is not a disease that addiction is the result from early childhood trauma. We are trying to treat or deal with our trauma. I guess like self medicating to numb our pain from our trauma. I do have childhood trauma starting as early as 4 years old. I don’t want to be an addict all my life. It doesn’t make me feel positive about myself. I regret all the time I wasted chasing a high when I could have done something with my life that I could be proud of. My 2 sons who are now young adult men grew up to be great young hardworking gentleman that I am proud of cos’ I raised them basically as a single mother.
@@luannwilson4581you are awesome human being,you have managed to raise two healthy young man on your own and gave them chances in life.Keep praying to our Lord Jesus Christ and he will set you free from the chains of addiction.God bless
I was a meth addict for 10 years and the first 2 years of being clean I didn't do anything. Now I'm studying psychology at uni, getting really good grades but yes, I focus all my energy on self improvement and meditation has been key for me.
I hear it's not good to go through a dopamine fast if you're already depressed, though...because it could be dangerous. I guess it just depends on how well you can fight the invasive thoughts, how healthy your self-worth and self-love are.
Its the best time to do it. If you are depressed you need change or you will always run to comfort and never change. Its not exactly a dopamine fast its more a cheap dopamine fast. If yiy replace the cheap with a dopamine source that requires action or accomplishment then you will feel much better, the problem is that initiating that action will be difficult since you have to leave your comfort zone but you have motivation to do so since you are depressed and you dont want to be. Its much harder to do a dopamine fast in a state of apathy your brain just cant find a reason to deviate from its habits, it predicts that you wont feel good if you take the action but also wont feel bad if you dont.
@Despize Perform????? What do you mean g? I just said depression is a fiction??? And it really is??? It isnt a disease people dont catch it from thin air. Some people actually do suffer from depression but, if your fucking girl left you or someone was rude to you doesnt mean you are depressed and need a therapist. Depression is a excuse nowadays if you cant control your emotions. People should learn to control their emotions. Its okay to cry but not always, its not okay to cry whenever you feel like crying. If you cant control your own mimd yourself, you have already failed as a person. School shootibgs, rape, etc happen because people dont know how to control their emotions.
After 10 years of methamphetamine IV use I've decided to quit. I've gone 6 weeks sober with CBT but still have a hard time finding the motivation to even get out of bed. Zoloft keeps my depression and anxiety in check. I've about given up on the cold turkey approach to this sobriety thing.
You have to cold turkey it bro unless it’s heroin or Xanax because that can kill you. Everything else is a mental game bro and you have to think if I was alone on a mountain right now would I have a urge for this thing
Intense exercise, clean diet, meditation and QiGong have all helped me quit my addictions with minimal suffering and long term success. Meditation is tough to make a daily practice but the positive side effects are nothing short of a miracle.
Currently battling an addiction. I'm only 24 days sober but I must say withdrawals are a bitch. My grown ass cried this morning cos I was overwhelmed with delirium and anxiety from not getting my fix and constantly thinking about getting my fix.
The thing about cold Turkey is you don't fully get rid of the desire, its still there and once triggered, returns. Have to target desire to engage in dopamine increasing activities. I do appreciate where you speak about understanding the relationship between the highs and lows in order to find a balance.
You're right. I channel my desire into something else, making music and taking melodics classes, get a MIDI keyboard anywhere (used or new) and commit to 2 weeks. What's a 2 weeks in 52 weeks?
The example resonates pretty well with me actually. Working out 4 days a week, constantly pushing myself to the limit with work and self-improvement. I was also playing video games, then moved that out of my agenda due to not considering it productive anymore. I'm still trying to squeeze it in sometimes, but not really finding any joy in it anymore. Well, not finding any joy in anything actually anymore and have to "force myself" to do "things" just for fun to get used to it "again". Wouldn't say I overdone any of the activities but the accumulation of all of these activities perhaps led to an overall depletion. Now, I'm really curious in this case what should be done because that was not obvious from the video. If all of these activities were triggering dopamine release: working out, reading books, pushing myself during work, playing video games, watching movies, eating out once or twice, etc; should I simply stop doing all of them? If so, what should I do instead that doesn't trigger dopamine release? How to recover? Should this be done frequently? :D
I was wondering the same thing. If you do something you like (even if it's healthy like sport, swimming, reading...) too much through the week, it can lead you to a burn out if I got it correctly . My best guess is : you should choose something to cut off completely like video games or alcohol or fast food and focus on your healthier habit OR try to do less overall like instead of fast food every week it's like every 2 weeks? I hope I got it right :p
I think that as long as those activities produce around similar levels of dopamine, you’re fine. But the issue comes when one of those activities produces an absurdly large amounts of dopamine. This will lower your baseline because you’ve depleted a lot of dopamine which will cause all the other activities less fun and demotivating. And in this depressive state you’ll likely even abandon your regular activities just to chase that super high dopamine you felt earlier. This is where the idea of addiction comes in. So i think using this relationship you can make better decisions on regulating your dopamine levels and keeping it at a good baseline level. This is what I understood from the video.
I bought the book dopamine nation which andrew encourages you to read in one of his podcasts. In that book they say there are certain activities that boost dopamine, but don't drop baseline. Reading, listening to music(not for background entertainment purpose), meditating, cold showers, socializing, sports(especially team sports) all dont crash your baseline. Of course sex, alcohol and video games are part of our lives. It would be a mis understanding to live like a monk and exclude them from our lives. If you game for like 30min a day, and then 3 times a week you'll be fine. And then next week you don't game but you have a little more sex. Or maybe next week you do both and then a week off. Just do things naturally as they cross your path and steer a little bit with your mind. Don't live like a robot. All the happiness to you guys!
About an example in the end: maybe he started to work out and do other "not fun things" more just because there was nothing else to do? I mean no video games and no social media probably left him with a lot of free time which he needed to fill in, in order to not die of boredom. Hmmm
i remember i used to workout a lot when i felt like procrastinating. got buffed as all hell puffed up chests, bulky wide shoulders, strong arms an absolute chad without any equipment using sacks or briefcase filled with books etc to weight lift lmao and tons of push ups and stuff then i found how to have fun using social media got addicted to youtube and 18 months later now i am a loserboi barely any muscle fml
This is what I do I'm my life. I get bored, smoke weed, play video games, je*k off, and the cycle repeates it's self. That's the only way I can play video game. If I'm stoned otherwise it's unbearably boring. Been stuck doing this along time because I bought into the idea that's what ur supposed to do when u get a good job.
I am detoxing weed cigarettes meat caffeine alcohol sugar , did not watch anything to help. I just decided to do it in silence naturally and no feeling sorry for myself . Something just clicked in me. It is my time is my mantra. I was only quitting the smoking but somehow just went full on with it all. First time for quitting everything, many attempts to end smoking failed. This time different. Self Respect took over finally.
To all my brothers who struggle with internet or social media addiction, i have a one trick to slow it down. Instead of using mobile version of apps (instagram, fb, yt) you should use a web version. It is a lot of slower and dont have reels option. Just add it on your screen and you will using it on minimum level.
Where is the boundary line on "things you enjoy" causing dopamine spikes? It's easy enough to use addictions and entertainment as examples but what about people who are obsessed with healthy eating such that they derive great pleasure from it, or those who wildly enjoy exercise? Do they not count because they are also healthy behaviors or would healthy behaviors also effect dopamine spikes and low baseline? Otherwise, how is replacing activities with healthy activities any better in terms of dopamine? If you begin enjoying 'the healthy life' is there the expectation of this same problematic dopamine curve? Is pure routine the cure as it eliminates novelty? What about those who find great satisfaction in their routine? Or is that not 'spiky' enough to matter?
The best fix i found as someone with a hard core addictive personality is taking responsibility for my actions. Getting ny life in order, working on my marriage and relationships for them to be stable and having more than two kids. Children automatically force you to seek a stable environment and they keep you off balance just enough so you don't become complacent. As soon as you accept responsibility for more than one or two children you will not have a single minute of emptiness, boredom or meaninglessnes in your life. Everything is filled with purpose. Purpose will keep the additions away.
Only problem with that is you're no longer living YOUR LIFE. Instead, you're spending it serving and catering to others while you no longer can enjoy anything because youre too busy cooking, cleaning, teaching, doing laundry and dishes and going places you don't wish to go like a playground etc. oh and spending every dollar you make on not you.
@@darinshaver4234 i don't quite understand with what you mean by 'living your life'. Your life is always determined by your actions and you can give in to addictions or your own hedonistic desires or you start setting goals and try to acchieve them, but unless you are not willing to live in a community or display anti social behavior you have to work with others. What i see you describing is 'as soon as you serve others you are basically nothing else than their worker.' I see it more like others help and serve me and i do so as well.
I got addicted to the video game rocket league. One day I got hit with the cold water when I saw my play time at 2500 hours. Plenty of people have played more than I would stay up long into the night even if I had work or school the nest day and felt miserable the moment I got off. Uninstalled it and hit my controller since I didn't play any other games but that. It's been about a year and now and I'm happy to report I don't really have the urge to play anymore. Think what skills or things I could accomplish with 2500 hours of my life back. I hope more people think about that
too much of anything will be harmfull, too much water too much salt, too much protein too much sex and to much time spent being inactive. but too much time spent being kind to yourself and others will make you a better person all round.
I can play my instrument I can draw And practice my writing Continue learning a new launguage Get answers to questions I have by reading and strengthening my mind Tend to my garden Meditate
Thank you very much! This actually explains the beneficial mechanism behind things like religious fasts and abstention from pleasures really well. People were doing it instinctively because they could see that it worked.
It’s more likely to be learned than instinctive. Religious fasting was motivated for various reasons, but biological pleasure wasn’t one of them - quite the opposite, in fact.
I am 38 and I have been gambling for 20 yrs... Slowly but surely it kills your spirit and literally takes everything from you. Only other gamblers can relate and you tend not to hang out with gamblers and so you shy away from family and friends and then the tunnel gets darker and darker and just when you think it cant get any darker. IT DOES. I have alot of time for people with addiction and I always have hope that one day you wake up and make a change.
Thanks for sharing fellow human. Not just gamblers can relate, its all very relatable :) Hope you found some random hobby to just pursue with no expectations, its been my journey.
I just finished watching your video *NEUROSCIENTIST: "You Will NEVER LACK Motivation Again".* I do not understand what you are saying. Will dopamine fail me? You can only rely on dopamine a little bit or you'll use it up? This kind of seems like a catch 22 situation. Do you have any advice to go with the other video? I just turned 74 and life is good. I had a career doing what I wanted to do for the most part. I'm in good shape physically. I don't drink or use drugs. I've been retired for 9 years. I read 73 book last year ... I love stories. Now for the last 3 years I've been trying to write fiction stories but it's much harder than I thought it would be. The getting-butt-in-chair-and-write isn't working. I was hoping the ideas in the other video might help but this one through me off. I have, throughout my life, been able to take a task that had been dreading into one I liked to do ... but I don't know how I did that. Your other video seemed like maybe I was doing it without knowing it. Any ideas? Thanks for making these videos. I've learned a lot from TH-cam video creators.
Primative man, intelligent wildlife such as deer, wildcats, gorillas along with domesticated animals give us the answers...life isn't meant to be all roses and pleasure. Dopamine production is limited. It pushes us to seek reproductive activities, and if "successful", a temporary dopamine "high." It pushes us and pushes wildlife (along with hunger), to seek out food, shelter, safety...with resultant dopamine release. Staying alive, reproduction, the comfort of being warmed by a fire, both physically and psychologically... release our limited dopamine supply and just enough quantity as is necessary. We were never meant to be happy and smiling all the time. Primitive man did not have the benefit/luxury of unlimited food supplies, gambling casinos, unlimited dopamine-like-producing drugs, et cetera, which today causes some of us to constantly seek out chronic pleasure. Our bodies, in an attempt to remain in homeostasis, utilizes a negative feedback system to keep dopamine levels at a baseline and to be utilized as a survival tool. We now have the ability to abuse dopamine, but our own bodies realize that too much is too much. The resultant crashes bring on depression. I, like so many of us, bought into the quest for constant pleasure until I realized that I was fighting/abusing one of my body's survival mechanisms. Too much food is too much food. Too much glucocorticoid is too much glucocorticoid. Too much dopamine is too much dopamine. Quite simple really.
Yes you seem like the kind of person Huberman is saying we could be if we had a good relationship with dopamine. A lot of us are stuck in addictions and over loaded with social media, we can only dream of that kind of balance in your life.
Just go to the source. This channel is stealing the content of Andrew and just putting subtitles and stock footage over it. The source is in the description, watch that, not this.
The internet needs to be slow again.
We need to slow down
Don't waste time misplacing blame
@@ZZZ-Hip-Hop
exactly, ergo the comment section.
Seriously this is the only thing that is going to stop me
It's like throwing the responsibility onto someone or something external. The fight is internal.
I'm 42 yrs old now. I've Been a heavy addict since I was 16, 3 years ago, I Lost my wife and daughter because of heavy porn use . The guilt almost killed me, so I said enough and decided to escape from this shithole. I read a ton of books (the only one that changed me was "Befapless" because it had the most realistic steps for quitting), joined communities(like "r/nofap"), and gave it all to quit.
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I'm clean for 3 years now. I feel regret every day about the time that passed.
I wasted my life. I wish I hadn't. God, I wish I hadn't.
If you're young reading this, please do anything at all necessary to overcome this ASAP!
Idk how to quit. When I get the urge I feel like lost and then binge. How do I actually make progress without it feeling like a 50/50 war everyday
Regret is to the devil u still have to overcome that loosing ur wife and child is not a big deal just be better with no regrets
@@sparkpeaks2430 once u quit u realise how realy lonely u are so u go back but instead go pray (if u believe in god ) , exercise daily , go to the nature espiecialy the beach and talk with people daily , sleep well , eat good food and there u go ul be fine
could’ve been worse. my friend is addicted to a hard drug and feels he can’t stop he’s only 27 but his health is declining is organs are failing it’s sad
Wow so sorry but hopeful you beat it so far
Actual Summary of video:
-Dopamine is limited in supply. Baseline of dopamine determines how you feel longterm.
-Any form of pleasure-> peaks in dopamine, drop in baseline after.
-A low baseline makes you feel uninterested in low dopamine releasing tasks so you seek more exciting things which leads to even lower dope baseline.
-Understand that you can manage your dopamine to control those peaks and drops in ways that will keep your baseline high long term and short term.
-High baseline-> high motivation and satisfaction
Suggested method to stop addiction: Go told turkey or limit dopamine evoking behaviour.
My suggestion: Replace high dopamine activity with lower dopamine activity and keep decreasing until you are where you want to be.
And not of those 2 work practically
Thank you
@@filipfric Its definitely not a guaranteed method but it can work for some. Addiction is not easy to overcome. But i think it would be beneficial for most people if you make decisions using this dopamine management information as a framework.
Keeping this in mind will help recognize and manage addiction of any degree.
I went cold turkey on smoking it worked out great, because i quit a job i hated, which gave me anxiety and i wanted to die all the time.
Been cold turkey quit caffeine from new year, 4 weeks without it, but after 4th week, since i felt so unproductive and zombie like....i mean i was not even able to function very properly. I could manage the sinple, but i think my depression just kicked in harder.
I started drink 1 cup only of coffee and suddenly i was able to do those difficult tasks again...and go out to excercise and meet people.
I wanted to quit coffee because of my insomnia and because i don't think we are meant to be taking something else to be energized.
I wanted to see how far i could go on my own energy.
Maybe i should have given it more time, but will try again, with keto diet & intermittent fasting
@@j.h.8257 thank you my friend 😊🙏 i will do so again, i took some tips from that, the importance of daylight to kickstart hormone receptors
I think a lot of health issues has got to do with me avoiding the sun due to photosensitivity in eyes to light exposure, i think it started when i got sevetely burnt out as in my brain overheated, whole sysyem collapsed, fried and malfunctioned.
But i will have to expose myself to that which feels painful or difficult. It's the only way ✊✌
Meditate, exercise, get into nature, paint, read, avoid drugs, alcohol, sugar, social media. Yes, it can be done! 😊
Its too hard
@@000Emiryes it's too hard , for few days ... You have to push yourself, there's no other option. First decide what u have to do , nd do it anycase ... U will not die , keep that reminder ❤ All the best
Well, here we are on social media...
If it is so easy for you, what are you doing here?
But I would rather use drugs, alcohol, sugar, social media.
I remember after a month of no porn, extremely limited masturbation, and daily 3-5 minute cold showers I always felt extremely energetic and grounded. I felt in control of my own emotions and over all life. I’m gonna get back to this.
it feels like im two completely different persons when i am normal compared to when i have an urge to watch porn, how can i stay myself during those hard periods and resist the temptation? I have been going down a black hole of thrill seeking with more and more taboo pornography and am afraid of what i will become if i keep going on this path
Well its not you are 2 different person, it's that you have an urge, stop it, do something else even if not that thrilling, the first few weeks it's hard but it will be easier and you will reach a point where you don't even think about it. Just give it time and effort at the beginning and will be easier, like anything else at the end of the day
@@Hassan-zw9tbyou have to understand it first. You are a different person. Its survival instinct that humans have had for thousands of years. To procreate. Its normal. You just can't let it consume you. And don't be down on urself when you do give in. Idk what else to say, just know ull never be perfect. But you can definitely try to be..
Jesus Christ loves us unconditionally+eternally!He cares for us so much that He sacrificed Himself on the cross for our sins!God is so good!💗✝️
At what age?
So to cure addiction is to stop being addicted to whatever you’re addicted to. Got it 👍
Ikr 😭😭😭😭 did not help at all
You gotta have a good attitude about it too or it’s not gunna work, I suggest replacing a bad habit (ie:addiction) with a good habit. Ever wanted to learn something new? Get into better shape? Learn an instrument? It takes 18 mins a day everyday and in a year you’ll have 109.5 hours in that one skill alone. That’s just one year imagine if you did it your whole life. Plus you’d be growing so much faster that there’d be an exponential growth in no time.
Creative outlets help vent emotions. But yeah the only way to end addiction is obviously not continuing. Easier said than done. Like taking a fist up the ass, if you can handle it.
So easy🧢
Skill issue
$o you're saying the key to beating addiction is to cease the activity to which you're addicted. Genius.
“Good addition” vs bad addiction.
I know that “good addition” is still addiction. But try to create a new environment for yourself to make your life better.
Yeah. Another worthless video about addiction recovery.
@@Nick-z2owell learning about the science behind addiction certainly worked for me. It's easier for me to quit these activities now since I'm aware of the consequences and doing research on this topic really helped me understand it better and convince my mind. Now I don't crave as much as I used to before.
I’m a 1996 kid. First part of my childhood was without a phone or internet. Second part was when mobile phones became a thing, computers became thin, wifi became a thing and then online porn became a thing.
Sometimes I feel sorry for kids these days. They will never know how good we had it! Before all of this BS the internet has brought. New age problems.
96 year old kid?! 😰
@@Prince_of_war777Elias must be American. Usually around the world that means the yr 96. 1996. 😂
@@3Z6I9R oh okay gotcha 😅 sheesh.
@@3Z6I9R I thought you said 96-year-old kid because porn did that to you it took your life away!
@@Prince_of_war777Elias ahahaha 😂 actually now that you mention it. It’s probably better if I worded it properly
This explains why in society we’ve seen such a huge increase in “mental illness” now I’m not saying that it isn’t a thing but with the availability of tech that peaks our dopamine and is highly addictive, we get more people that are diagnosed as depressed or anxious and like he said ADHD
There simply more monitoring about it. There was no "down syndrome" either in the 1930s, for example. But there was.
ADHD was first diagnosed before the TV was invented. I understand that ADHD symptoms can be present for various reasons. But people who are diagnosed with ADHD have to give current personal account and an account from a parent of caregivers account of you as a child. If it was just from tech they wouldn’t be diagnosed, because it wouldn’t be prevalent in childhood. I do think that hubermans advice is helpful to improve ADHD symptoms, even with people with ADHD. But blaming tech on the rise of diagnosis as appose to the rise of ADHD like symptoms is really unhelpful and creates stigmatising beliefs for people with ADHD.
As Sam Vaknin says true love and intimacy is the ultimate addiction, therefore if you are intimate and truly falling in love with your partner, it reduces the need for other addictions, such as Facebook and social media.
Pseudo ADHD, though. Unlike the actual thing, simply restricting most fast-food technology reverts the pseudo ADHD symptoms whereas this will do nothing of the sort with actual ADHD (even though it may somewhat alleviate its symptoms)
ADHD is actually nothing more than low dopamine baseline(that's why they use stimulants to treat it). Some people are born with low dopamine activity , but the symptoms?? With Tech's overstimulation we now all have them
I am a sugar addict to a ridiculous point and I’m a healthcare provider. My goal is giving up sugar this year. If I don’t accomplish anything else that’s a big one. This is so helpful and exposing the reality of addiction. Thank you so much.
Good luck! :)
Ozempic has killed my sugar addiction...not sure if it will last but it's nice to not be a slave
Do Keto
Turned 59, sugar addict to the max and started noticing every body had diabetes or prediabetes, high blood pressure, my kids brought it home by turning down their sugar intake. Started listening to Ken Berry, started carnivore lot of boneless sirloin (cheap but good) Costco rotisserie chicken, eggs bacon & butter, 3 weeks in no sugar, no carbs, down 4lbs and it's worth it, don't wait as long as I did. I started at 160lbs trying to get to 130lb by June, 2lbs a week but why not. Dont wait till you notice everybody else getting sick. Be an influence on your kids, you're so young, I wish I had started no sugar at your age. It's a terrible addiction. More advice than cocaine, I've heard.
@@SosimpletohearHimhi Andrea, if after 3 weeks you are down 4lb maybe adjust your goal slightly just so you can make it more realistic the last thing you want is to get demotivated because you didn’t hit your goal of 2lb per week by June.. but honestly well done 🙌🏽 hats off to you 🎩
So abstinence is the key. Seems like a fight you ll never win but we need to understand that feeling it s temporary. So ask yourself "Am I ok with myself in my actual state?" If your answer it s no start to imagine the person that u want to become. Visualize it! Are you happy? Smiling? Making the people you Love happy being around you? Are you providing , excelling , resolving problems? As Jordan Peterson said : "Don't sacrifice who you could be in the name of who you are."
For myself I m actually stuck. I left the job I hated to learn new skills and start a new career. I m in the point where I know I need excelence to achieve my goals. But as a drug addict (cigaretts,masturbation and sugar addict and ex alchool , weed and coke addict) , I raised my brain as a spolish kid. Can t handle borrowness and Have no discipline. I m not ok with myself. Who I am it s not who I want to be. I m 40 years old , but game on bitch! If u r Reading those words and having same kind of issues Just join me. Let s become our best version and leave this world a lil bit better it was! God bless you Brothers and sisters !
Yes! Starting on my masturbation, porn and nicotine addictions. Feel much happier in day to day tasks already. Good luck my friend
@@jakemorrison8507 lil least than 48h without smoking ... the colateral effects of abstinence are horrible. Was easier quit hard drugs than this shit . But it won t last . Stay focus , stay hard brother 🚀🤝🏻🗿🍷🙏🏼
@@taldofrances head up king!!
@@yyh2023 day 3 bro ... almost fail but still here
@@taldofrances Alan Cars easy way to stop smoking helped me bro, all the love all the power
You've just got to know to take regular breaks and savour peace and quiet (and nature). I used to smoke and smokers have to realise that the 'high' a cigarette gives you is just taking you to the kind of level a non-smoker spends half his life around. Once that cigarette finishes, your mood then spirals downwards until you restart the cycle and have another cig. Now, I'm addicted to 10-mile walks before breakfast which are helping with healing the damage I took on to my lungs and heart (amongst other areas).
This is why meditation is extremely important. Among the multitudes of benefits a practiced meditator will experience, at the very least it allows the conscious mind to rest and recover from constant overstimulation. It is also why meditation is so difficult for many people. It can be extremely uncomfortable to take a break from that stimulation and be content doing nothing but breathing and feeling your body. This calm and stillness can eventually induce a parasympathetic state similar to when you sleep, which is when the body does the most healing. Without enough sleep and meditation, the body can never fully recover from compounding long term damage.
totally agree. well said.
Do you know of any good instructional videos on how to meditate properly?
@@FirstSkilletFan There is no right or wrong way to start meditating but this might help you get started. th-cam.com/video/H37BDUyCEe0/w-d-xo.html
Its not the conscious mind that needs rested its the subconscious mind of the ego that needs quietened. Our conscious mind needs to be firing. This is what 'being in the now' is. Conscious loving awareness.❤
Medication could also increase depression
I've been trying to regulate my dopamine baseline for a pretty long time now, and I believe I'm in a pretty good place, but not ideal. Problem is, it's really hard to follow through with these commitments since life usually doesn't give you the respite required for you to heal. There's no time to limit yourself and reset your baseline when there's always always stuff to do. So next best option? Find low domapinergic activities you enjoy. For me it turned out to be calisthenics and cooking, especially if it's a new recipe. I still entertain unhealthy high dopaminergic activities, but they are slowly falling out of my routine, as I both actively avoid them and also don't hit the same highs while entertaining them. This is a long and hard process, but it really has brought more joy to my life and kept my mental health in control.
Calisthenics & cooking can be dangerous, though, especially the jumping jacks while pouring olive oil.
@Stephen Doty thanks for the warning bro, but I found that doing handstand pushups over the hot pan to be even more challenging. On the plus side, I don't need to visit the hair salon as often
@@StephenDoty84 haha great joke!
What you're doing is great, keep it up!
@@laggingjaeger1148unexpected comeback right there
Hats off
I’m an ex amphetamine user and there are a few things that make quitting much easier. 1. L-tyrosine, potassium, and b vitamins in the day, l-tyrosine is an amino acid that helps restore natural levels of dopamine and the vitamins are to replenish the depleted vitamins in the body. 2. 5-htp , magnesium and trazadone at night to help replenish serotonin levels and sleep properly. None of these substances are addictive and help detox not feel sooo horrible that you go get more of the drug. As a matter of fact, what took weeks to recover when I didn’t take these supplements only took a few days. Day 3 withdrawal barely even tired and went to work like normal. Hopefully this helps someone out there because it sure helped me.
How much tyrosine do you take?
Thanks mate
Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.
Can you help with the reliable source I would really appreciate it. Many people talk about mushrooms and psychedelics but nobody talks about where to get them. Very hard to get a reliable source here in Australia. Really need!
Yes, dr.sporesss. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
I wish they were readily available in my place.
Microdosing was my next plan of care for my husband. He is 59 & has so many mental health issues plus probable CTE & a TBI that left him in a coma 8 days. It's too late now I had to get a TPO as he's 6'6 300+ pound homicidal maniac.
He's constantly talking about killing someone.
He's violent. Anyone reading this Familiar w/ BPD know if it is common for an obsession with violence.
Is he on instagram?
Yes he is. dr.sporesss
I have a TH-cam channel & I fell into the trap of constantly checking if I new subscribers and felt bad when I didn’t, I would make a video and post it and if it didn’t do well I got depressed and wondered why, so I started second guessing myself and making videos that I thought the audience would like rather than just posting videos of what I enjoyed, and this led me to not enjoy the actual activity I was filming, I was doing it for TH-cam rather than for myself and fell out of love with it, I am getting better now, I only film occasionally now and actually have begun to enjoy the activity for what it is, my passion. It has had a profound effect on me and I’m working through it. I know this sounds trivial but it took me to a very dark place.
@hikingwiththeshackeltons
I feel you on this fosho - your post inspired me, cuz.
I know being addicted to food 🥘,sleeping 🛌 and procrastination is not as bad as drugs but I do need help ,it’s ruining my life 😔it’s intense
Its bad as drugs i think
-^ it's not. Do some drugs and find out ☠️
find why you need help?
Same especially with food , I am suffering health consequences but I'm so in
Have a goal in life. Wasting is worst than death May Allah help us.
I just worked out for the first time in five months and really if I'm being honest, I'm being more serious about it than I have in over a year. I turned to alchohol and yes still bought beer tonight even after my workout....but it just doesn't hit the same because my body is already high off of my natural dopamine release from the brain. I believe if I keep this up within a week I won't be buying my after work beers any more....they were originally just every few weekend beers, then over a few years every weekend beers, then through covid....every day beers. So I know I lived most of my life without beer....time to get back to baseline! Thank you so much! Exercise, being outside and walking and biking, and being creative have always been my original escapes.....oh and READING! I miss doing that!
I went through the same thing and let me tell you it works, godspeed to you
I found out I need less beers and it gets me into a better mood in days I workout. Good luck
I'm right there with you Mack. Give us an update.
Consistency is the key. I'd go for a few weeks or a month hard then stop. you get a lot more satisfaction doing it regularly , and you will see results
How goes the progress?
I can't remember where I heard it, but those of us with adhd or add, ect, need to learn how to be comfortable being bored again. Internet has overclocked us beyond what we can handle. I am more manic than I have been for years
and thats where meditation/mindfulness comes in to play. just accepting the boredom and exploring it and training to focus on a single thing are key to overcoming adhd symptoms
I experienced this when I was addicted to gambling for years. I used to not want to do anything, not care about anything else, had my apartment really dirty, it robed me of a lot of things, happiness, friendship, money (obviously) and everything that comes with it like going out and dating
Damn
You weren't missing much being from both sides of this issue.
I have a friend who went through exactly the same experience as you.
30+ years gambling addiction and talks about the devastation he has caused himself and to others.
The lying etc in a desperate urge to get some money and continue where he left off and lost everything he earned for decades, no girlfriend (even when he did he broke up as he was always pissed off with the money he lost and never had the money to look after her at times even for a basic meals, no real friends as he was so addicted the gambling which became his friend, his girlfriend, his everything.
He is 15 days clean now….and I am trying to help him with activities to kill the boredom etc.
You all need to look to the future and not to the past. As the past is too painful to reflect upon.
Just remember a famous saying that I make him quote every day, it’s by a guy called William Bolitha, it goes ‘a gambler is nothing but a man who makes his living out of false hope’! How true it is.
Stay strong and remain strong…good luck for the future to my friend and all those in the same boat.
what a beautiful comment, thank you for writing that. Your friend is lucky to have someone like you. I hope he doesnt mess it up over and over again now and you don't instantly drop him. My dad ended up saving me 2 times after knowing about my addiction and before completely stopping end of june 2022, I ended up wasting all my money again, had to take a small loan to keep up. Now I'm over the past as it really does hurt too much, but it's part of my life and currently I am on a great path, physically and mentally. Mentally getting over everything is this rough as I'm one year until finally graduating and earning decent money finally at 32 next year@@1azrealdeal
what did you gamble on?
How much money did you lose over the years would you say?
How did you end up stopping completely?
It's almost like there's a reason God tells us to avoid certain sins. Every sin we commit gives us a high dopamine response. In turn it wrecks us. But nobody pays attention until some science man on the TV screen tells us the consequences
I was thinking the same thing. The main difference is that sin has eternal consequences and most people don’t want to believe or think about it. Neuroscience keeps things safely in the physical realm where sure, people suffer, but no one has to answer to God for hurting others or look to Jesus for salvation from the consequences.
Apart from obvious sins such as lust or drunkenness, I guess the bible addresses the dopamine problem through Ecclesiastes by saying pleasures are in vain
I recently had come to the same conclusion.
Thats the philisophy of the Taliban
Learning about dopamine and feeling exactly what he's talking about is giving me a spike of dopamine. I'm addicted to herring the facts from huberman, he helps me to understand and confirm how and why the way i feel.
Great video cheers! I'm looking at my addictions, tobacco, coffee, social media ect and looking to leave those behind. I want to become less reliant especially on man made things that have me hooked. I want to feel alive again, so I'm also setting a two hour a day reading task to drive my mind clear of these things and give a new perspective on life in general. Wild animals live day to day, the only thing they can do is to live for the moment and be present, not thinking about their next fix every hour of the day. This is where I wanna be.
Oh oh coffee ☕️???? Say it ain’t so!😢😢 lol😊
@@kenfroehlich444 Oooh yeah please if ya offering 😏😉
Me too
So basically just give up your addiction. Wow, thanks for that. Helpful.
I fucked up my teenage years because of this. At 12 my parents got me a gaming PC. I played all day until 14. It started to get boring. I started weed after and got hooked on it. I abused it. During the years I smoked when I was sober nothing felt good. I quit at 17 and since then everything went back to normal. When you don't enjoy a harmless activity anymore, please don't indulge in substances. Take a break from it a few months, focus on being productive and you'll enjoy it again, I promise (I enjoy video games again, never abused them since then).
Damn, feels like he is talking about me in this video. I loved playing video games, but now even this doesn't make me happy anymore, the last 2-3 months I've been depressed. I used to smoke a lot of weed and drink beer all the time, but stopped it all since a month ago.
How'd you remain strong when that little devil wanted to get high or buzzed? I'm struggling and have struggled with this for so long and I'm kind of sick now of being a slave to that demon
You could say this about relationships too. Relationships disregulate dopamine levels as well.
Totally agree. Another big thing is what's our motivation to engage in certain behaviors. Do we do things each day to get pleasure, or are we doing it for a higher spiritual purpose? The more we can do things for the latter reason, the less we will be controlled by dopamine in this way.
Thank you for easily the clearest explanation of addiction/ compulsive behavior and corresponding depression. I can sum up the lesson by considering the importance of a balanced life.
I've been wandering since few months as if i got ADHD but now I feel it is just an irregulated dopamine baseline.
My behavioral addictions/obsessions are : more screentime and social media, messed sleep schedule, procrastination, pornography contents.
My journey begins here, I am not going back to those obsessions.
for 30 days i will work on balancing dopamine baseline level.
Now my goal is, I'm just gonna use social media for 30 minutes everyday, and get 7 hrs of sleep and no procrastination on daily task.
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Nov 7. I can't always be like this.
Ur a hero
only one day 😂
@@yourunemployedfriendat2pm ooohh shit, I forgot. I will continue from today🤧
@@learning3078 well...
He relapsing
3 months in a Muay thai camp cured my addiction
This video helped me so much, i use to workout , swim, and dance everyday and drink with my friends on the weekends. Now i sit silently in my basement hooked up to a machine constantly monitoring my dopamine. According to the machine I’m very happy!
What is this machine?
There is a machine that measure dopamine at your place??? What? Explain please anyone! I'd like to know more
@@suzannavenezia777he was being facetious. There is no machine.
He was being sarcastic you 2 morons 🤣
Dаmn it, by looking through some comments like these two guys in this section, I actually think there's a bigger problem with IQ than Dopamine burnout in population
God Bless you all! I pray for all my brothers and sisters who are addicted and trapped in sexual sin❤
Ty
The TLDR of this is essentially “stare at a wall for awhile” and I’m here for it
My addiction was anorexia and bulimia. I was always trying to chase the high it gave me. My behaviours became more and more extreme which lead to me trying to take my life. I had an ED for 26 years after years in hospital. I am nearly 1 year in recovery.
What high does it give you if you don't mind me asking?
@@krayziejerry No that's fine, the high purging gave me. The high from fasting, each time I would need to go longer and longer without eating. Its really hard to explain. It also nu,bed me as well. It is a horrible cycle.
@@krayziejerryI've been in the same situation, too.
Eating disorders are competitive.
How much more can I lose?
How much longer can I go without food?
For me, the high was that hunger feeling and plowing through it. It was satisfying and mentally rewarding.
We push ourselves to extremes and it feels good.
Thank you for sharing. that is not easy to share publicly. I hope you're as strong to do it in person so that others get inspired by your vulnerability. I try to do it too and sometimes am met with a pause
@@ScurvyRascal completely agree, its sad but true :( I hope you are doing better @ScurvyRascal
I just watched a 7:30 minute video on how to stop being addicted only for this guy to say “you have to stop doing it! :)”
Be determined! Learn things before you start, prepare yourself for stopping anything. ❤
So break addiction by breaking addiction for 15 days. Got it. Actually good info but more emphasis on the actual process of quitting during those 2 weeks. Cold Turkey is one method he mentioned, or tapering off. Removing yourself from the environment completely or changing the environment to prevent temptation would help. Note taking whenever you relapse to prevent future relapse
Agreed. The title is unfortunately misleading as there isn't any advice here except for abstinence. Tell an addicted person to just stop doing the thing they're addicted to and see how well that works.
Yes, and after the 15 days you can become addicted again and at some point you take a break again and the cycle of happiness and unhappiness begins
Are you guys ob a.phetamjnes
To be honest I think life should return to the way it was before 1995. It is extremely discouraging to see so many people, especially ages 50 or below, addicted to their phones
Not to downplay the information, but it sounded like the summary of the final 30 seconds of How To was simply, “Stop doing the thing you’re addicted to”.
I love these shorts. They are streamlined and to the point. Ty
We are in the age of information and now more than ever, learning to align energy fields within (Chakra) is so helpful in this quest for calm, serine thoughts of love. This dimension is full of material growth and missing all the true gifts that are inside of us. I pray in power that brothers and sisters can be still and appreciate the silence of the great spiritual awakening. Protection and Abundance to all
0:13 choose hard, there is strength, beauty in struggle..quitting is easy, everyone does it
I'm addicted to being an absolutely great guy. I just can't seem to stop myself.
The highest dopamine expenditure for me was on food. But I benefited from Ramadan this year by eating only one meal every 24 hours. I feel much better. I have lost a lot of weight and my happiness baseline has increased.
Thank you for such a informative and helpful video!
I am atm going through a addiction and so is a very good female friend of mine!
Needless to say we are having problems with our relationship.
I’m forwarding this video to her now and praying for both her and I to get through this together…
Thank you brother
Addiction is a symptom of PTSD. So is anger.
Stop the anger.
@@msimon6808 I have no anger! Only hurt in my heart now…
Wuts all this shit about porn anyway? I guess sum people addicted to that also! Jus SMH 🤦♂️
I’m addicted to coke! My gurl is addicted to meth!!!…
I know we love each other but when she leaves home for four or five days and comes back and sleeps for three or four days straight what the fuck you do????
All will be good for a week or two then the “Thing” over powers her and I can’t compete with that shit!!!
Lol, yeah we got problems Farso!!!
And it ain’t jacking off to porn!!! Ha
I’m starting the 14 day challenge Monday and hopefully my gurl will be here to join me…
Dun even know why I’m typing this shit here! …
@@msimon6808 And I know way to much about PTSD Bro!
I spent 13 years in Search & rescue! I’ve seen enough death ,well… I’m getting off topic here!
I thought if I kept enough “blow” here it would be enough to curb her craving for the meth! I was oh so wrong about that!
All that accomplished was me bringing back a old demon I had overcome for 20 years ago!!!
Now the both of us got a serious problem…
I believe I can overcome this! It’s her I have my doubts about. She dun been through two rehab programs and still using!
She has a great mother ( that has given up on her) and a absolutely amazing 9 year old daughter!!!
She is pushing everyone away from her that truly loves her!
I’m not angry! My heart is broken for her!…
It’s truly sad…
I'm going to be praying for you both as well Ted~ may every effort toward resolution be blessed and protected. ~Sam in NV
Im addicted to addiction. I just hop from one to another.
I would also add- breathwork (breath of life and long slow breaths) movement practice of any kind and Somatic Experiencing and body based therapies are great for decreasing the discomfort of withdrawal symptoms
my dad told me
if you're not busy, get busy
i think i get it now, if i'm always busy i can't goof around
"You will never be addicted again" is the title of the video. The method? Stop pursuing the activities you're addicted to that are depleting dopamine.
Absolutely groundbreaking! This is like telling an addict to simply stop being addicted.
Can't believe I wasted 7 whole minutes on this video.
But the comments are actually useful ❤
I was a tobacco smoker. The only 2 times, I could quit smoking, cold turkey, were the times that I had huge incentives & hopes.
One was when my soulmate ( a non- smoker)drew the line for me in a gentle way. My love for him made me quit instantly.
The second time, when I found out that I was pregnant. I believe hope and creating incentives, along with self- control helped me.
I know I’m addicted when it’s only been four minutes and I’m saying “Holy shit get to the fucking point!”
One of the biggest problems with modern society is this easy access of dopamine in the transition to the information age from the industrial revolution. I grew up in the 90s before computers and internet were mainstream and the most I had was an N64 and TV. I would go outside, play and do things, and that's become harder as the age of technology progresses. I make it a point not to use my phone unless I absolutely need to or maybe once every couple of days to post a picture of my instagram. It's the computer screen that I'm really addicted to, and so sometimes, rather than sit on the screen, I'll put headphones on and just listen to youtube vids while laying in bed. I try to take even just 10 minutes to engage in a creative drawing or writing activity, and go on at least one walk a day.
In a lot of ways, life was simpler before smartphones. That's a given. Nowadays, it really comes down to having some type of moderation in your daily life, to balance out the activities that are important and others we do just for fun or wasting time. I've been experimenting with only going on Facebook & Instagram at the end of the week. It's a work in progress, but I have noticed a difference in my mood when I'm not on my accounts everyday. I consider TH-cam the exception since I mainly use it for news, educational, relaxation, and comedy content. Looks like you've got a similar routine and I hope it continues to benefit your well being.
bro took 7 minutes just to say don't do it💀
Coz you don't have enough dopamine to watch the whole video😊
my guru told me to follow these two-
1.always carry any keypad phone ..
2.fix sleeping time ,10pm to 6am...
(use cyber cafe for professional activity if highly necessary)
these two techniques are itself a strong meditation that will give our mind a plenty of space to think out of box..
(I will try :))
the problem is not that most of the time we do know what is good and bad for us and we are also aware of that, the problem is that we live in a world of extremes and I am pretty sure lots of addictions, even seemingly mild ones, are related to compensation and release - people work hard in the week, so at the weekend they want to let off and "enjoy life" - one extreme leads to another...for fixing the fish, you need to change the water, you cannot have a healthy fish in unhealthy water.
We live in hell.. not many realise this, but we all feel the pain suffering and endless search to release our uncomfortable feelings all the time.
We are imprisoned in our human meat suits, full of shit, figuratively and literally. A human body that leaks piss, poop, blood,sweat and even puss .. all day every day.. work a minds controlled insane mind..and we still can't figure out why we feel so much pain inside. Chasing our own tails. We are slaves, have to pay for their educating to work for them a slave job with a boss that engels us when to start working, pause and end working and do what he says.
Eat, work sleep and repeat... that's the hair life..
Now repeat after me "I am free"
And still human don't get it
Hell of duality with the promise that you can "make" it.. if you do this, that, look pretty enough, act perfect, obey your boss, find a partner to contract up with, that's called" love", divorce after decade and repeat.. hamsterwheel. or stay single f*ck around, ly, cheat and make everyone unhappy...Humanity is lost in deceptions and lies.
Soon everyone will see, when the phoenix will rise again, scriptures, their script, the bible will reveal where we really are.
Wait until we get trump presented as Jesus. The sh*t show that this carnival circus is gets a reset.. they tell us everything. Not not many listen.. although we got eyes to see and ears to listen.
Interest is everything. Give something more and it will take more in return. Taking away from anything and everything else, whether it’s valuable or not. Unfortunately more often than not, it’s the positive things that deserve most our attention, but that high dopamine source, in whatever form, may be and most likely will consume that which is more a worthwhile energy release. It’s a tale born in that give and take, finding balance type talk. No mater the severity of the addiction or it’s importance or lack of, it’s always a worthwhile fight to subside a sadly singular or more acute “purpose”in any moment or in this life. Keep growing everyone.
Started cranking it at age 10…. I have no clue what my baseline feels like.
In my eyes once you are addicted you will never be the same again, even if you stop. Depending how long your addiction was it changed the brain. You can get sober but first of all you can always relapse and second of all there will almost forever be temptations which are only there because you have been addicted. How to stop addiction? You have to commit 130% and even then it's not guaranted to stay like that but you basically have to change your whole mindset and make life almost only about stop using the substance/social media whatever, ver hard...
It takes insane willpower, and on top of it, everyone else is indulging, and nobody validates it, but yet you can see how it severely impacts your own life.
I agree that when you are addicted and depending on how long you’ve been in your addiction you are never the same. I believe that the dope which I have had a off and on addiction to Crank or Speed for about 30 years has changed my brain chemistry. I also had an addiction to Opiates but eventually I stopped using that because it was getting harder for me to get. At first I didn’t consider myself an addict because when I discovered I was 6 weeks pregnant on both of my pregnancies I had no problem quitting cold turkey all drugs, cigarettes and any alcohol. But once I had my children I started back on the Crank to lose the excess baby weight I gained and to have energy. But my addiction has gotten worse since 2016. I am severely depressed and can’ 7:29 t do anything unless I get loaded. I was diagnosed in 2018 with Multiple Sclerosis and that should have been enough to make me stop but it hasn’t. I believe my drug use caused me to get Multiple Sclerosis because Speed affects the central nervous system and MS affects the central nervous system too. One of the ways people can develop MS is being exposed to certain different chemicals. And I know that the ones who cook the Crank put different household chemicals like lye and brake cleaner and other ones too. I’m an idiot cos I know I’m snoring poison into my body. But I’m having mixed feelings about doing anymore drugs. I have found God and following God and continuing my druggie lifestyle doesn’t mix. I was told you can’t follow Jesus and still be holding the Devil’s hand. Someone is trying to send me a message cos’ the last 3 times I used just recently I got this horrible horrible headache that even Advil couldn’t take away. Then all 3 times I had nausea too. My gums are inflamed and probably infected too. I am slowly killing myself and I am now 53 and I think I’m getting too old for this shit. In Rehab they told us that addiction was a disease like if we had diabetes and we would have to deal with that for the rest of our or my life. But now I’m hearing videos on TH-cam that addiction is not a disease that addiction is the result from early childhood trauma. We are trying to treat or deal with our trauma. I guess like self medicating to numb our pain from our trauma. I do have childhood trauma starting as early as 4 years old. I don’t want to be an addict all my life. It doesn’t make me feel positive about myself. I regret all the time I wasted chasing a high when I could have done something with my life that I could be proud of. My 2 sons who are now young adult men grew up to be great young hardworking gentleman that I am proud of cos’ I raised them basically as a single mother.
@@luannwilson4581you are awesome human being,you have managed to raise two healthy young man on your own and gave them chances in life.Keep praying to our Lord Jesus Christ and he will set you free from the chains of addiction.God bless
I was a meth addict for 10 years and the first 2 years of being clean I didn't do anything. Now I'm studying psychology at uni, getting really good grades but yes, I focus all my energy on self improvement and meditation has been key for me.
@@angelinasamba620 How long did it take you to return your dopamine to baseline after you quit for 10 years?
Confidently can say I was wrongly diagnosed as add but I was the dopamine depleted dude for YEARS. Interesting stuff
here's how not to be addicted to the stuff you're addicted to... stop doing them... wow great advice man, thanks!
I hear it's not good to go through a dopamine fast if you're already depressed, though...because it could be dangerous. I guess it just depends on how well you can fight the invasive thoughts, how healthy your self-worth and self-love are.
why? can you put up video or link for it?
Its the best time to do it. If you are depressed you need change or you will always run to comfort and never change. Its not exactly a dopamine fast its more a cheap dopamine fast. If yiy replace the cheap with a dopamine source that requires action or accomplishment then you will feel much better, the problem is that initiating that action will be difficult since you have to leave your comfort zone but you have motivation to do so since you are depressed and you dont want to be. Its much harder to do a dopamine fast in a state of apathy your brain just cant find a reason to deviate from its habits, it predicts that you wont feel good if you take the action but also wont feel bad if you dont.
you just have to make sure you replace addictive behaviors with healthy behaviors.
Depression is a fiction
@Despize Perform????? What do you mean g? I just said depression is a fiction??? And it really is??? It isnt a disease people dont catch it from thin air. Some people actually do suffer from depression but, if your fucking girl left you or someone was rude to you doesnt mean you are depressed and need a therapist. Depression is a excuse nowadays if you cant control your emotions. People should learn to control their emotions. Its okay to cry but not always, its not okay to cry whenever you feel like crying. If you cant control your own mimd yourself, you have already failed as a person. School shootibgs, rape, etc happen because people dont know how to control their emotions.
This is the reason why it's so hard to get off drugs
After 10 years of methamphetamine IV use I've decided to quit. I've gone 6 weeks sober with CBT but still have a hard time finding the motivation to even get out of bed. Zoloft keeps my depression and anxiety in check. I've about given up on the cold turkey approach to this sobriety thing.
You have to cold turkey it bro unless it’s heroin or Xanax because that can kill you. Everything else is a mental game bro and you have to think if I was alone on a mountain right now would I have a urge for this thing
TH-cam addiction has been fucked my life i want to come out from this addiction
I hope this is taught in school these days.
"stop doing addictive things" yeah that is truly revolutionary I can't wait for the school systems to pick up on that one
Unfortunately it's not. I'm afraid we have to learn the things that really matter ourselves.
Intense exercise, clean diet, meditation and QiGong have all helped me quit my addictions with minimal suffering and long term success. Meditation is tough to make a daily practice but the positive side effects are nothing short of a miracle.
So, stop doing addictive things.
What a revelation!
the only person who can change you is yourself
lol
So what really did you expect dude? Some mantrà? Some "life hack"? Come on buddy face it
@@hokageraj9267 I was expecting ice plunge
I’m so sick of bullshit sarcastic comments. Grow up
WE WATCHED AS A STREAM AND WAS BRILLIANT Thank you!!
Currently battling an addiction. I'm only 24 days sober but I must say withdrawals are a bitch. My grown ass cried this morning cos I was overwhelmed with delirium and anxiety from not getting my fix and constantly thinking about getting my fix.
Your still sober?
@@karstenkuipers452 relapsed multiple times. 5 days sober now.
Keep going, you’re so worth every effort and you’re strong enough to free yourself 😊
The thing about cold Turkey is you don't fully get rid of the desire, its still there and once triggered, returns. Have to target desire to engage in dopamine increasing activities. I do appreciate where you speak about understanding the relationship between the highs and lows in order to find a balance.
You're right. I channel my desire into something else, making music and taking melodics classes, get a MIDI keyboard anywhere (used or new) and commit to 2 weeks. What's a 2 weeks in 52 weeks?
so... i'm suppose to take a month off? was that what will make me never be addicted again? i feel like this one went over my head
I’m 90% certain whoever’s talking in this video has no idea what dopamine is or how it works
Thank you so much! I have ordered your book on dopamine. Gratitude.
The example resonates pretty well with me actually. Working out 4 days a week, constantly pushing myself to the limit with work and self-improvement. I was also playing video games, then moved that out of my agenda due to not considering it productive anymore. I'm still trying to squeeze it in sometimes, but not really finding any joy in it anymore. Well, not finding any joy in anything actually anymore and have to "force myself" to do "things" just for fun to get used to it "again". Wouldn't say I overdone any of the activities but the accumulation of all of these activities perhaps led to an overall depletion.
Now, I'm really curious in this case what should be done because that was not obvious from the video. If all of these activities were triggering dopamine release: working out, reading books, pushing myself during work, playing video games, watching movies, eating out once or twice, etc; should I simply stop doing all of them? If so, what should I do instead that doesn't trigger dopamine release? How to recover? Should this be done frequently? :D
I was wondering the same thing. If you do something you like (even if it's healthy like sport, swimming, reading...) too much through the week, it can lead you to a burn out if I got it correctly .
My best guess is : you should choose something to cut off completely like video games or alcohol or fast food and focus on your healthier habit OR try to do less overall like instead of fast food every week it's like every 2 weeks?
I hope I got it right :p
I think that as long as those activities produce around similar levels of dopamine, you’re fine. But the issue comes when one of those activities produces an absurdly large amounts of dopamine. This will lower your baseline because you’ve depleted a lot of dopamine which will cause all the other activities less fun and demotivating. And in this depressive state you’ll likely even abandon your regular activities just to chase that super high dopamine you felt earlier. This is where the idea of addiction comes in. So i think using this relationship you can make better decisions on regulating your dopamine levels and keeping it at a good baseline level. This is what I understood from the video.
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I bought the book dopamine nation which andrew encourages you to read in one of his podcasts. In that book they say there are certain activities that boost dopamine, but don't drop baseline. Reading, listening to music(not for background entertainment purpose), meditating, cold showers, socializing, sports(especially team sports) all dont crash your baseline. Of course sex, alcohol and video games are part of our lives. It would be a mis understanding to live like a monk and exclude them from our lives. If you game for like 30min a day, and then 3 times a week you'll be fine. And then next week you don't game but you have a little more sex. Or maybe next week you do both and then a week off. Just do things naturally as they cross your path and steer a little bit with your mind. Don't live like a robot.
All the happiness to you guys!
@@Snoop-Watchogg love this!!!
Yeah this is much needed for the hour where usage of high social media is very normalised
So how do you stop being addicted?? He's just explaining what happens
Social media destroyed me and my family!!
About an example in the end: maybe he started to work out and do other "not fun things" more just because there was nothing else to do? I mean no video games and no social media probably left him with a lot of free time which he needed to fill in, in order to not die of boredom. Hmmm
i remember i used to workout a lot when i felt like procrastinating.
got buffed as all hell puffed up chests, bulky wide shoulders, strong arms an absolute chad without any equipment using sacks or briefcase filled with books etc to weight lift lmao and tons of push ups and stuff
then i found how to have fun using social media got addicted to youtube and 18 months later now i am a loserboi barely any muscle fml
Wow! I get it, just quit! Glad i hit this video that didn't have a click bait title
The solution seems so obvious but many people just can't seem to do it
Good sense involving our comings and goings.
This is what I do I'm my life. I get bored, smoke weed, play video games, je*k off, and the cycle repeates it's self. That's the only way I can play video game. If I'm stoned otherwise it's unbearably boring. Been stuck doing this along time because I bought into the idea that's what ur supposed to do when u get a good job.
I am detoxing weed cigarettes meat caffeine alcohol sugar , did not watch anything to help. I just decided to do it in silence naturally and no feeling sorry for myself . Something just clicked in me. It is my time is my mantra. I was only quitting the smoking but somehow just went full on with it all. First time for quitting everything, many attempts to end smoking failed. This time different. Self Respect took over finally.
To all my brothers who struggle with internet or social media addiction, i have a one trick to slow it down. Instead of using mobile version of apps (instagram, fb, yt) you should use a web version. It is a lot of slower and dont have reels option. Just add it on your screen and you will using it on minimum level.
Where is the boundary line on "things you enjoy" causing dopamine spikes? It's easy enough to use addictions and entertainment as examples but what about people who are obsessed with healthy eating such that they derive great pleasure from it, or those who wildly enjoy exercise? Do they not count because they are also healthy behaviors or would healthy behaviors also effect dopamine spikes and low baseline? Otherwise, how is replacing activities with healthy activities any better in terms of dopamine? If you begin enjoying 'the healthy life' is there the expectation of this same problematic dopamine curve? Is pure routine the cure as it eliminates novelty? What about those who find great satisfaction in their routine? Or is that not 'spiky' enough to matter?
Addiction is the symptom, a distraction, a coping mechanism. chasing after dopamine has little to do with addiction
The best fix i found as someone with a hard core addictive personality is taking responsibility for my actions. Getting ny life in order, working on my marriage and relationships for them to be stable and having more than two kids. Children automatically force you to seek a stable environment and they keep you off balance just enough so you don't become complacent. As soon as you accept responsibility for more than one or two children you will not have a single minute of emptiness, boredom or meaninglessnes in your life. Everything is filled with purpose. Purpose will keep the additions away.
Stop the anger. A very simple message. Very hard to do.
@@msimon6808 I wasn't talking about anger. Children and family give purpose and keep addictions away.
Only problem with that is you're no longer living YOUR LIFE. Instead, you're spending it serving and catering to others while you no longer can enjoy anything because youre too busy cooking, cleaning, teaching, doing laundry and dishes and going places you don't wish to go like a playground etc. oh and spending every dollar you make on not you.
@@darinshaver4234 i don't quite understand with what you mean by 'living your life'. Your life is always determined by your actions and you can give in to addictions or your own hedonistic desires or you start setting goals and try to acchieve them, but unless you are not willing to live in a community or display anti social behavior you have to work with others. What i see you describing is 'as soon as you serve others you are basically nothing else than their worker.' I see it more like others help and serve me and i do so as well.
I will forever clap for others until it's my turn 🎉🎉🎉
reposts with misleading clickbait titles are NOT helpful, ffs, it is MORE helpful with a realistic title
I miss those times when we had to run miles to hunt for food at 4 am
Some good points here, but a lot of talk and no meat
I got addicted to the video game rocket league. One day I got hit with the cold water when I saw my play time at 2500 hours. Plenty of people have played more than I would stay up long into the night even if I had work or school the nest day and felt miserable the moment I got off. Uninstalled it and hit my controller since I didn't play any other games but that. It's been about a year and now and I'm happy to report I don't really have the urge to play anymore. Think what skills or things I could accomplish with 2500 hours of my life back. I hope more people think about that
too much of anything will be harmfull, too much water too much salt, too much protein too much sex and to much time spent being inactive.
but too much time spent being kind to yourself and others will make you a better person all round.
I can play my instrument
I can draw
And practice my writing
Continue learning a new launguage
Get answers to questions I have by reading and strengthening my mind
Tend to my garden
Meditate
Thank you very much! This actually explains the beneficial mechanism behind things like religious fasts and abstention from pleasures really well. People were doing it instinctively because they could see that it worked.
Yup also eating the right food and nutrients gives the body resources to build up the dopamine baseline again.
It’s more likely to be learned than instinctive. Religious fasting was motivated for various reasons, but biological pleasure wasn’t one of them - quite the opposite, in fact.
I am 38 and I have been gambling for 20 yrs...
Slowly but surely it kills your spirit and literally takes everything from you.
Only other gamblers can relate and you tend not to hang out with gamblers and so you shy away from family and friends
and then the tunnel gets darker and darker and just when you think it cant get any darker. IT DOES.
I have alot of time for people with addiction and I always have hope that one day you wake up and make a change.
Thanks for sharing fellow human. Not just gamblers can relate, its all very relatable :) Hope you found some random hobby to just pursue with no expectations, its been my journey.
TL;DR addicted to something? Don’t do it anymore
Brilliant. Thank you.
I just finished watching your video *NEUROSCIENTIST: "You Will NEVER LACK Motivation Again".* I do not understand what you are saying. Will dopamine fail me? You can only rely on dopamine a little bit or you'll use it up? This kind of seems like a catch 22 situation. Do you have any advice to go with the other video? I just turned 74 and life is good. I had a career doing what I wanted to do for the most part. I'm in good shape physically. I don't drink or use drugs. I've been retired for 9 years. I read 73 book last year ... I love stories. Now for the last 3 years I've been trying to write fiction stories but it's much harder than I thought it would be. The getting-butt-in-chair-and-write isn't working. I was hoping the ideas in the other video might help but this one through me off.
I have, throughout my life, been able to take a task that had been dreading into one I liked to do ... but I don't know how I did that. Your other video seemed like maybe I was doing it without knowing it. Any ideas? Thanks for making these videos. I've learned a lot from TH-cam video creators.
Primative man, intelligent wildlife such as deer, wildcats, gorillas along with domesticated animals give us the answers...life isn't meant to be all roses and pleasure. Dopamine production is limited. It pushes us to seek reproductive activities, and if "successful", a temporary dopamine "high." It pushes us and pushes wildlife (along with hunger), to seek out food, shelter, safety...with resultant dopamine release. Staying alive, reproduction, the comfort of being warmed by a fire, both physically and psychologically... release our limited dopamine supply and just enough quantity as is necessary. We were never meant to be happy and smiling all the time. Primitive man did not have the benefit/luxury of unlimited food supplies, gambling casinos, unlimited dopamine-like-producing drugs, et cetera, which today causes some of us to constantly seek out chronic pleasure. Our bodies, in an attempt to remain in homeostasis, utilizes a negative feedback system to keep dopamine levels at a baseline and to be utilized as a survival tool. We now have the ability to abuse dopamine, but our own bodies realize that too much is too much. The resultant crashes bring on depression.
I, like so many of us, bought into the quest for constant pleasure until I realized that I was fighting/abusing one of my body's survival mechanisms.
Too much food is too much food. Too much glucocorticoid is too much glucocorticoid. Too much dopamine is too much dopamine. Quite simple really.
Yes you seem like the kind of person Huberman is saying we could be if we had a good relationship with dopamine. A lot of us are stuck in addictions and over loaded with social media, we can only dream of that kind of balance in your life.
@@labtechtech Thanks for the reply. Peace.
Just go to the source. This channel is stealing the content of Andrew and just putting subtitles and stock footage over it.
The source is in the description, watch that, not this.