@habowtat
Someone told it to me like this once... Imagine we live in a very snowy place. The snow represents all of our thoughts, feelings, emotions, etc. The world is our brain. Now, imagine a thought process, feeling and satiating that feeling: is a journey of a synapse from point a to point B. As an addict. We've been taking a route, a route that takes us from sad to happy, unwell to well... We've been taking the route for so long, that there's a path formed. So in all this snow and hectic energy, this path was formed over time. Imagine you're in a snowstorm, and you need to get to store, you're going to take the path that gets you there. The path you've always taken. Because it's formed a clear path. Why go through all that snow and risk getting stuck or lost? Everytime you went the path was formed better. Your boot prints widened over time and the path became more clear and direct. And now, because that path is so formed, it'd be almost foolish to take the path less traveled by, because you're uncertain if it'll get you to the store or not. That's what addiction does to your brain. It makes using your DOC the quickest way to happiness, safety, calm. The ONLY way forward out of addiction, is to form new paths, every single day, one step at a time I've been 6 years sober this October. And my life has never been better.
@tossitin9769
i am 17 years old. I was addicted to anime, reels, YouTube, nonstop music and other internet related things like shopping and games. I quit all of these at the same time because I was aiming to score high in my exams. After a few days I experienced sudden stress and anxiety and was confused about what was going on with me. I had gotten anhedonia because of sudden drop of dopamine and was very very scared about my future. It's been 1 month and I'm still having a few symptoms. I get a lot of mood swings, I don't enjoy anything as much as I used to before, I get scared of many things, I get suicidal thoughts even though I would never do such a thing. These suicidal thoughts make me overthink and give so much distress that I disconnect from the world and just keep thinking about why all this is happening to me. There have been a few positive changes since the past month. It's very difficult for me to handle this. I'm glad I have such wonderful parents and friends and that is why I get panicked and scared about getting suicidal thoughts. Please tell me what I can do to have a speedy recovery so I can enjoy life again. I really really hope this is temporary.
@ellaaysun6181
I’ve done DMT twice, and had ego death my first time, and it’s been the best thing that’s happened to me in a long time. I’ve been more motivated, threw out a lot of harder substances, and a lot of my anxiety and underlying guilt is completely gone
@pineapplepotato6985
Finally, a real video about HOW addiction works in the brain. Understanding the social pressures that cause addiction is important, but YouTube has a distinct lack of neurological and pharmacological explanations of the phenomenon. Great work!
@HALTSMAULALLLER
And now imagine that physical opiate withdrawal is added to that. Because this is mainly caused by noradrenaline. The lack of dopamine makes you feel incredibly tired and weak, but the adrenaline doesn't let you sleep. Your body is also running at full speed but you have no motivation. Add to that the pain, diarrhea, vomiting, shaking, endlessly sad depression etc etc etc.... It's a real miracle that some people stop using opiates all on their own. I did it because I had no strength left and suicide was the only solution. I can't believe it myself but it's possible
@thomasbrouwer2771
Amazing summary. It is only worth mentioning that behavior addictions such as porn and gamble also activate the same mechanisms.. is one process of addiction with different objects.
@fartinthewind1959
Superbly done and brief enough to use for the "Opiod Response Network's" (ORN) trainings I do nationally. THANK YOU ALL for the educating and compelling explanation, AND mentioning the impact of stigma on Tx aversion. This is going directly into a slide deck!
@kennedystreetrecovery4757
Great explanation, what I’d really be interested in is a video on how active recovery engagement works creating new neurological pathways
@zayneharbison
This is astounding. Too many take addiction for a joke rather than a serious matter of medicine and social standards.
@early.111
I love your way of explaining. Please would you discuss for me the VTA and the prefrontal cortex considering dopamine release and the effects the addictedd brain will encounter
@KindOfSushant
Don't try to quit the medium instead try to take control of damage brain. Defeating addiction with just willpower that ain't possible. Understand the mechanism of dopamine and brain. Develop a strong mind which resist urges
@LinusE
This doesn’t mention the stress circuitry’s role which is reverse to the dopamine. While dopamine down-regulates, stress receptors are upregulated which makes an addict more stress in sober situations. Leading to hyper-stress which can only be alleviated with drugs, a vicious cycle.
@Astrovic1
most successfully recovered Ex-Addicts say that tagging Addiction as an chronic illness hinders people recovering and excuses failing medical treatment (sry for bad englisch, I am from germany)
@quietE23
Thank you so much, that was really informative and clear ! I couldnt understand how the reward system worked before, but now i get it !
@sharminrocks346
Ek zabardast vlog. Kya shandaar sajaya riza rehan sara milkar. Just wow. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@dmtdreamz7706
Then I heard a new sound: a living sound, like the richest, most complex, most beautiful piece of music you've ever heard. Growing in volume as a pure white light descended, it obliterated the monotonous mechanical pounding that, seemingly for eons, had been my only company up until then. The light got closer and closer, spinning around and around and generating those filaments of pure white light that I now saw were tinged, here and there, with hints of gold. Then at the very center of the light, something else appeared. There was a wooshing sound, and in a flash I went through the opening and found myself in a completely new world. The strangest, most beautiful world I'd ever seen. Brilliant, vibrant, ecstatic, stunning . . . I was flying, passing over trees and fields, streams and waterfalls, and here and there, people. There were children, too, laughing and playing. The people sang and danced around in circles, and sometimes I'd see a dog, running and jumping among them, as full of joy as the people were. A beautiful, Incredible dream world . . . Except it wasn't a dream. The word real expresses something abstract, and it's frustratingly ineffective at conveying what I'm trying to describe. Imagine being a kid and going to a movie on a summer day. Maybe the movie was good, and you were entertained as you sat through it. But then the show ended, and you filed out of the theater and back into the deep, vibrant, welcoming warmth of the summer afternoon. And as the air and the sunlight hit you, you wondered why on earth you'd wasted this gorgeous day sitting in a dark theater. Multiply that feeling a thousand times, and you still won't be anywhere close to what I felt like where I was.
@Woodyhewitson
Really good video, thanks!
@28srehab
Addiction is definitely both psychological and physical, which a lot of people tend to overlook. After a certain point it's not a choice anymore like video said. A lot of people are like oh this person's on this drug so now they're hooked and don't think past that. It's so much more than that though. Something could have happened in an individual's life to get them to that point. That's not talked about enough and stigmatized.
@johnalexir7634
This is a well delivered, concise explanation of this subject. Thank you.
@Micnesia-c1l