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
@@donoturnback Not exactly a SUBSTANCE, that changes your body in a meaningful way. Gambling is an addiction too, but I didn't include it here, because the topic is wrong. Kind of...
wait so is that why im sick? what you described is almost exactly what happens when i come down from pills nd whatnot i didnt think i did them for long enough to even cause it 20 pills a month tops, mostly 8-15 pills a month in a week or so of binging them
Go ahead, put your life and your mind at risk and do drugs... See that they don't do you. At this time, I would kill myself if I couldn't do heroin... it's the only good, safe, comforting feeling that I know. I mean, I am a Diagnosed Schizophrenic... it's sortof different for me, because I have a severe mental condition that affects my everyday life. Maybe "normal people" don't constantly feel afraid that the world is about to end... but I've been like that since I was a kid. I avoid all interpersonal relationships because, as a drug addict, I am not worthy of any type of relationship... but personally, I feel that drugs are way safer than relationships. I don't annoy or bother anyone, anymore. You can't blame drugs for the bad things that happen to you because of your addiction... you can only blame yourself, or better yet, recognize what part you played in all of it. When I consider all of my experiences related to my addiction, I don't recommend that anybody try drugs. You are better off never knowing the feeling of euphoria. I promise you.
i am 17 years old. I was addicted to anime, reels, RUclips, 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.
Exercise, good food, water and sleep will allow you to come back towards equilibrium over time. You are also feeling like many adults, so consider that when you see how adults behave. Your brain isn’t done developing until you’re about 30yrs old, so expect many changes to come! Many will be positive but don’t be scared of negative thoughts, they happen to everyone. You may want to take time and reflect on what those thoughts are and what underlying emotions are making you scared or to over think. Sometimes it’s just natural and other times there are unresolved things from childhood.
It's very good that you have already seen some positive things returning. The fact that you're aware of the dopamine connection is going to help you a lot. You already know the big "secret" to addiction and how it's an illness, not a character flaw. THAT alone will get you far in life when you're trying to keep up your self-esteem. Also, you can recover much easier with all the knowledge of how to dopamine seek the healthy way. Everyone needs dopamine, but it's healthier to keep a steady, lower level of it, enough to keep you happy. Then, you should start being able to get rushes of dopamine when something exciting happens. At that point, you should be on your way. I wish you the best. I'm glad you didn't get too far into addiction or get into deadly substances. How are you doing now? A few of us have shown interest, so maybe you can update. 😀
Finally, a real video about HOW addiction works in the brain. Understanding the social pressures that cause addiction is important, but RUclips has a distinct lack of neurological and pharmacological explanations of the phenomenon. Great work!
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.
just lost my dad from drug overdose today. addiction is terrible and so are drugs. i was very upset at why he would choose drugs over his family but i knew it wasn’t him anymore and he only relied on drugs. thx for the video.❤
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.
Also Pavlov effect of addicts getting conditioned to the environment they developed addiction in hence the reason many addicts relapse after getting out of rehab
@@Kaila-qy3ns While that is true it’s important to remember that Pavlov was a very strict behaviorist, the idea that what makes up our being is a series of learned behaviors. Humans are clearly more complicated than that because our society is much more complicated than that. So while they are conditioned into addiction, it isn’t in the Pavlovian sense, or in the behaviorists sense.
i get anxiety when i think abt not having anything or having access to it its making it hard for me to tink abt my future nd transitioning into adulthood
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!
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
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)
Maybe that's true in Germany, but in my country, the US, it is definitely considered a chronic illness by professional organizations. It's just the people who are uninformed that this video is for.
@@surbon514why do think they categorize it as an illness??? Could it be so the healthcare system can make money ooof of "treatments" that dont work??? It's a scam. I was an addict. I beat it with will power.
Been struggling with fentanyl addiction, it’s rough I get clean then backslide just to go through the torture of detox, again and again knowing how miserable and the things I would do to just never try a perc mane. To not understand that rewarding feeling when u are going through wd and get your fix, it’s all just such a curse.
i know cigarettes are not as bad as this but i had the same issue, i used an electronic cigarette because i had no psychological attachment to it and it helped me quit. maybe find a healthier and less harsh drugs, and then after 3 weeks when you're used to not using fentanyl and not used to the new drug either try quitting. as i said, this worked with cigarettes so idk.
In philosophy and religion, dopamine/amygdala is connected to the vices (as connected with personal survival). Serotonin/Insula with the virtues (as connected with survival of the species). Reason-Awareness is recognizing that both of these systems need to be kept balanced and in harmony--as dopamine is connected with opioids (the reward for getting what you want, and making you want more--the cause of all addictions), or the stress (cortisol) and anxiety of not getting your desire (pains). The area being the cause of anxiety disorders, addictions, and heart disease. On the other hand, the Insula is connected with DMT (why many Buddhists and "Enlightenment" seekers meditate and use diet to restrict their dopamine levels to "awaken" to the insula). This area also connected to manic-depression. Where many "spiritualists" end up with melancholia and severe depression (not enough serotonin), or if damage the amygdala, with too much DMT (leading to schizophrenia). If read up on studies of DMT and LSD experiments (LSD connecting to insula system), no one has come back with any "secret" info or cures for cancer. DMT is just a hallucinogen that is probably used by the mind to give us a nice send off when we die (coming into play when the amygdala and dopamine levels drop to zero). There is no need to try and reach this state by use of drugs or "seeking after enlightenment"--this is modern science, not the ignorance of the past. The goal is to move past these areas and know enough about your self to be aware of what your body needs to remain mentally and physically healthy. Where moderation is key to everything in life. Too much dopamine or serotonin or not enough dopamine and serotonin both leading to mental dis-ease. The Key--is the Golden Mean.
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.
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
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.
@@dmtdreamz7706wow sounds like it could be caused by dmt or similar due to near death experience. Have you read robert monroe too? Great stories of journeying out of the body.
Addiction is unnatural. What's hard about this is that you need to change both environment and your habits to bring about a change. And that is a losing battle. Education and reprogramming the subconscious mind as well as changing the environment is a hardprocess but the only thing you need to know is hope. There is hope. You can change. If this was a totally permanent situation this would be a terrifying situation.
Yeah it’s not permanent and your brain does recover. If you take the proper amino acids and vitamins you can naturally overcome addiction and withdrawals that way.
If your watching this and reading it. Please Do Not DO it. It made my life a living hell. Im 7 years clean and im still suffering from this. I Might be permanently damaged. If you havent done it or are thinking about doing it DONT!!!! Please save your life.
Are there any known cures for addiction and reverse paranoid schizophrenia if the health professionals don't know / refuse to recognize you have either condition even after having a brain scan which shows it
I went - almost - clean 16 months ago, and started eating - mostly - only whole foods, no sugar, nothing processed, and started exercising 4-5 times a week. I fall off the wagon around every 4 months, for one night at a time. I find that when I break the diet and eat some crappy food, I start craving ciggarettes and alcohol and drugs! I can't even eat some white rice without wanting to get droned!
You probably also feel that stressful situations make you want to use again? This is because your mind has learned that the solution to an internal problem (you feeling bad or stressed) has an external solution (drugs or alcohol). So next time you feel stressed and think about using, try to catch yourself thinking that and then make a list, preferably in writing, about what will happen if you give into the urge and use drugs vs what will happen if you do not and if you were to do something you know is good for you. Even if you still decide to use, this will train your brain to change the pattern of behavior to a different one. Keep doing this and you can change any habit, but it works especially well with drugs or alcohol.
So basically, as it is said in the video, every addictive substance makes your body produce dopamine which makes you fill satisfied hence you get addicted to it. But how come some people have told me they didn't enjoy the first time they tried an addictive substance? For example, I cannot stand being around people who smoke, I just hate the smell of it. My teacher told me he didn't like the first time he smoked so he never smoked again. Shouldn't all people enjoy using an addictive substance since it produces dopamine?
From what I GUESS, not everyone enjoys same things. Some people like chicken, others hate it. Some people like pork. Other hate it. Some people like alcohol. Others hate it. I THINK it's the same here. You may like drugs, or you can hate it. Best way to get out of addiction? Never START.
the nicotine in cigarette increases your dopamine which will make you high, or distract you from the painful reality. i think your teacher didnt learn to smoke correctly, we want to take to smoke till lungs get 90% full. just kidding dont try smoking it ruined my life,s 1 year i quit smoking and my llips got pink again.
i think it's because the first time you smoke it literally burns your lungs so you can't get much dopamine out of it, as you get used to it you start getting high and liking it much and in the end you feel nothing even when you smoke. but it's about what you've said, i have friends that smoke a pack in a day with my friend group that don't smoke for 3 months afterwards
will be sober 43 years next sunday. i refused to believe i had a disease. i saw i had an addiction and i broke it. then i did the work on why it was i needed to drink. that was the real hard work. so glad i persevered though i now live with total freedom including freedom from carrying a label that says i have a disease. Yeeha
While it might be true that an already established addiction should be classified and treated as an illness, the behaviours and environments that lead to addiction can be prevented through will power (among other things). Also, an addict might take it as an excuse that addiction is a brain illness and tell themselves they oughtnt even try
ANY illness or disease u should fight to overcome it IF possible. You missed the point. Scientifically speaking and they done studies on this mammals in Unhealthy environments are lot more likely to have addiction problems/behavior.
"While it might be" Dude it is true and how do you guys come to the conclusion that people finding out they have a decease leads to them NOT wanting to cure it? This logic makes no sense
Abstinence, changing your environment, and lots of nutrients like magnesium. Or you can try to replace one addiction for another that's less damaging on your life. Like my ex girlfriend had a gambling addiction. I simply bought her a gaming system PS4, and her gambling habit reduced significantly
Substance use kicks the can down the road initially when dealing with painful emotions. It works until it doesn’t. The end of that road is a drop off cliff with no way back.
It’s so obvious with the effects of porn and heavily edited Instagram and ethots, that now men are calling Margot Robbie mid and a solid 4/10. Reminds me how when i was 19 my then partner would compare me to all these unrealistic beauty standards then it wasn’t until he started going outside more that he appreciated my beauty more and also discovered all the girls he was comparing me to were catfishes and heavily edited
Its funny for me , i dont actually knows am i addicted or not . As i tries any detox , very soon i convince myself that i am not addicted . By the way i am talking about yt and instagram , not something seriously addictive .
The drug is, for many a medicine. It's the (perceived) solution to a problem. The "disease" (this word is easily misunderstood) is the dis- ease of the mind. The mind is I'll at ease. It needs help. And the drug; whatever that mind altering thing is, is the help; and a life wrecker.
Yeah I find it very weird that people keep separating will power from addiction when you can just literally stop abusing a substance with willpower lol
@@sebastianphilipps1754 love yourself more than you love somebody else..work on the losing your past and picking up your present and future..Think greater than your circumstances....get a new dam circle of friends...it takes work but it's doable
Just because it changes the structure of the brain does not mean it is something we cannot control. Fallacious argument. In addition, we see the effects of addiction, not as a 'brain disease' itself but rather an external source that affects the brain. Such a skewed way to talk about this.
I know it’s hard to stop, but one day you will overcome the addiction of reading comments after watching a video. I know you are reading this one too 😂😂😂
What's going on in the brain during addiction? According to the magazine of the Harvard Mental Health Center that I mentioned earlier, our brain treats all satisfactions in the same way. Whether it comes from drugs, from money addiction, from excessive thirst, from unhealthy food consumption or from self-indulgence, etc.; It's just that they're all the same in the parts of the brain they're dealing with and the neurotransmitter (primarily dopamine) chemicals they produce. In simple terms; When information about any addictive substance reaches our brain, it causes the release of the neurotransmitter dopamine. Neurotransmitters are chemicals that act as office messengers when a nerve cell wants to transmit an electrical signal to another cell. So when we say that this dopamine is responsible for the functioning of the neurotransmitter, we mean it. In our brain, there are nerve cells that generate electricity: they are called neurons. As soon as the boy Hasan smokes, these neurons in our brain begin to produce chemicals called dopamine. (Just like we spray on our clothes.) They like these dopamine chemicals with an electrical signal. The other neuron has a receptor cell that hits the body (like a ball bounces off a net). It is at this time that the feeling of arousal comes, just like touching the tail of a light switch with our finger and making it turn on. Which brings us back to that - alcohol. These dopaminergic chemicals regulate the temporal lobes of our brains. When repeated | Again, it becomes addictive.How does the brain experience addiction? Until recently, scientists believed that the experience of temporary gratification alone made an addict, "an addiction to the point where they say, 'Repeat to me.'" However, recent studies have shown that the situation is a much more complex science. That is, the chemical dopamine itself is not the only one that brings that temporary satisfaction. In addition, the child's memories about the drug, the use of the drug (for example, the time, place and situation when he smokes secretly) and the situations in which he used the drug, the times he still uses it, and even his friends (a role in learning and memory of drug use) are controlled by the same dopamine chemical. Dr. Jackie Daniels, senior specialist at the Indiana Rehabilitation Center, explains more about this. The Harvard Journal of Psychiatry analyzes that dopamine is the main chemical in the child's brain responsible for providing memories and longing, from liking the drug to falling into addiction. He also explains that dopamine does this by interacting with another neurotransmitter, specifically glutamate. And this glutamate is the most abundant type of protein in our bodies that we all need for basic nutritional satisfaction. Glutamate, for example, works to make us eat meat, "appetite closed, open" etc. In our brain, however, it serves us in an overlapping role as a neurotransmitter. But just like a wild child addicts the good neighbor, every time the hormone dopamine, a drug chemical or signal comes to the brain saying "let's party and dance! let's have fun", it destroys this good and obedient chemical of glutamate in all parts of our body. The combination of these two chemicals causes the child's brain and body to feel a particular temporary satisfaction during the free time (for example, drinking and smoking), which makes him want that drug again and again. He is becoming addicted to this time.666 code to control brain chemicals Basically, when we study the chemicals of dopamine, neurons, glutamate, etc., which are used by users of the 666 code to control people with addiction, they have a carbon atom in them. For example, if we look at the hormone dopamine, it has 8 carbon atoms of 666 atoms and its chemical formula is CaHNO2. Glutamate's chemical form is CH9NO4, and it has 5 carbon atoms lined up for the chemical compound. In a health column published by The Guardian on 07/2019, he shows us how getting a good night's sleep can help the brain recover and repair damaged neurons. What we see here is that the repair is mainly done on the DNA of the neuron. If it has DNA, it must have a carbon code. We have seen again and again that this is the code of 666 (ie carbon 12 with 6 electrons, 6 neutrons and 6 protons). Therefore, the secret hand that rules the world using the 666 code is using this carbon 666 chemical here for addiction. The main chemical that allows us to control our brains is the main chemical, the main actor in all of them, drugs, alcohol, money worship, fleeting desires and activities. These include, for example, hemp and beer chemicals that use carbon primarily. As soon as they enter our body, the dopamine chemical they activate in our brain has a carbon structure. This primary carbon 666 chemical coordination function enslaves man. A research report included in the Conservapedia database entitled "Atheism and Dris Addiction" explains that most Westerners who fall under the slavery of drug addiction end up denying the Creator, God, and accepting the practices of 666 satanic spirits.Anti-drug campaign /War on drugs/ to spread drugs My dear family, I have already shown you how to prevent the use of drugs, cigars, alcohol and others. We have also seen the introduction of Prohibition or the Noble Experiment method in America. Similarly, the anti-drug campaign in the United States began in 1971 under President Richard Nixon. The Business Insider magazine, in its February 19/208 report, detailed the 20 American presidents who were supporters of the secret 666 Illuminati. Among them are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and now Richard Nixon, who is indebted to this expansion of drugs and alcohol. Business Insider reports that Richard Nixon founded a secret Illuminati group called the Red Brotherhood in 1993. If we look at it from this point of view, we can see that the project started by Nixon under the name of anti-drug campaign was deliberately made for the purpose of promotion to increase the number of drug users. As a proof of this, we can see on page 24 of the commission's publication WAR ON DRUG that an institution called the World Drug Policy Commission has greatly distorted the historical course of the anti-drug campaign. If he says the words we notice in this publication, "the global war on drugs has failed with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world". When it is translated, he explains that "... the world anti-drug campaign has led to many losses and failures for the individuals and societies of the world, and the project itself has ended in failure..." Although this project was discontinued, the 666 code user groups achieved the desired results. The idea of the article is that they have increased the number of addicts to a surprising extent. Let me show you some good evidence for this. For example: in 998, there were 12.9 million cocaine users in the world; But in 2008, it increased to 7 million, which is 27%, according to the United Nations report. By fafa - scientific .
It's a coping mechanism to deal with negative outlook on life or reaction to circumstances. Not a labeled disease. Plenty of studies on Vietnam vets coming home who abused drugs in war to go through it. When they returned to loving families addictions were gone. Same for meth users in ww2. Although not all had warm homes waiting for them. Also cocaine studies on rats... Addictions can fall off naturaly if you just start meditate or chill and care for how you feelin the moment. If you in decision to take the drug consider how crash or after effect would feel. All you need to fill the void or gap with self care and self love and not drugs.
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
Sorry buddy, but best way to stop addiction? Never start.
I never smoked, never took ANY drugs. Unless you think medicine.
@@donoturnback Not exactly a SUBSTANCE, that changes your body in a meaningful way. Gambling is an addiction too, but I didn't include it here, because the topic is wrong. Kind of...
wait so is that why im sick? what you described is almost exactly what happens when i come down from pills nd whatnot i didnt think i did them for long enough to even cause it 20 pills a month tops, mostly 8-15 pills a month in a week or so of binging them
@@trailerparkpegasus Looks like this info you stumbled upon could end up changing or saving your life. Awesome. 💪
Go ahead, put your life and your mind at risk and do drugs... See that they don't do you.
At this time, I would kill myself if I couldn't do heroin... it's the only good, safe, comforting feeling that I know.
I mean, I am a Diagnosed Schizophrenic... it's sortof different for me, because I have a severe mental condition that affects my everyday life.
Maybe "normal people" don't constantly feel afraid that the world is about to end... but I've been like that since I was a kid.
I avoid all interpersonal relationships because, as a drug addict, I am not worthy of any type of relationship... but personally, I feel that drugs are way safer than relationships.
I don't annoy or bother anyone, anymore.
You can't blame drugs for the bad things that happen to you because of your addiction... you can only blame yourself, or better yet, recognize what part you played in all of it.
When I consider all of my experiences related to my addiction, I don't recommend that anybody try drugs.
You are better off never knowing the feeling of euphoria. I promise you.
i am 17 years old. I was addicted to anime, reels, RUclips, 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.
woooow scary what those anime reels can do to a man
Exercise, good food, water and sleep will allow you to come back towards equilibrium over time. You are also feeling like many adults, so consider that when you see how adults behave. Your brain isn’t done developing until you’re about 30yrs old, so expect many changes to come! Many will be positive but don’t be scared of negative thoughts, they happen to everyone. You may want to take time and reflect on what those thoughts are and what underlying emotions are making you scared or to over think. Sometimes it’s just natural and other times there are unresolved things from childhood.
Please try to get into therapy, it'll help immensely
It's very good that you have already seen some positive things returning. The fact that you're aware of the dopamine connection is going to help you a lot. You already know the big "secret" to addiction and how it's an illness, not a character flaw. THAT alone will get you far in life when you're trying to keep up your self-esteem. Also, you can recover much easier with all the knowledge of how to dopamine seek the healthy way. Everyone needs dopamine, but it's healthier to keep a steady, lower level of it, enough to keep you happy. Then, you should start being able to get rushes of dopamine when something exciting happens. At that point, you should be on your way. I wish you the best. I'm glad you didn't get too far into addiction or get into deadly substances. How are you doing now? A few of us have shown interest, so maybe you can update. 😀
Stoping thinking anything and just take deep breath and relax b
Finally, a real video about HOW addiction works in the brain.
Understanding the social pressures that cause addiction is important, but RUclips has a distinct lack of neurological and pharmacological explanations of the phenomenon. Great work!
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.
I think porn and masturbation is as strong as heroin pleasure in the brain.
Yes, non chemical addictions are extremely difficult to overcome even without the physiological response
just lost my dad from drug overdose today. addiction is terrible and so are drugs. i was very upset at why he would choose drugs over his family but i knew it wasn’t him anymore and he only relied on drugs. thx for the video.❤
Rip 😔
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.
Yo didn't know that, pretty useful
Also Pavlov effect of addicts getting conditioned to the environment they developed addiction in hence the reason many addicts relapse after getting out of rehab
@@Kaila-qy3ns While that is true it’s important to remember that Pavlov was a very strict behaviorist, the idea that what makes up our being is a series of learned behaviors. Humans are clearly more complicated than that because our society is much more complicated than that. So while they are conditioned into addiction, it isn’t in the Pavlovian sense, or in the behaviorists sense.
i get anxiety when i think abt not having anything or having access to it its making it hard for me to tink abt my future nd transitioning into adulthood
I'm druggie cuz I've trird. Ur mental if I can't be sober!????!!?!!?!!?!?!?! Get ur fuck self together
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!
Psychedelics have the ability to induce profound altered states of consciousness
True, it helped me in facilitating deep emotional processing and introspection.
Do you know where I can get one? I really need this to clear my head.
doctorcyruss is your guy, got all kinds of psychedelics and the most knowledgeable that i know.
Is he on telgram?
Yes and tiktok, highly recommended.
Great explanation, what I’d really be interested in is a video on how active recovery engagement works creating new neurological pathways
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
11 months clean and sober,I'm an addict. I can totally confirm that this is dead on.
Thank you so much, that was really informative and clear ! I couldnt understand how the reward system worked before, but now i get it !
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)
gonna need a source on this one chief
@@vorgjr8519 for example in the book "the biology of desire" from Marc Lewis
Maybe that's true in Germany, but in my country, the US, it is definitely considered a chronic illness by professional organizations. It's just the people who are uninformed that this video is for.
@@surbon514why do think they categorize it as an illness??? Could it be so the healthcare system can make money ooof of "treatments" that dont work??? It's a scam. I was an addict. I beat it with will power.
It makes it easier to blame it on the drug than on oneself and just give up
Hate to say it but I think most of us are addicted to our phones
Guilty; how ironic I’m using my phone to look this up
@@lizbeth2210 😂
More like the internet
@@hopree2839 true
Same here
Been struggling with fentanyl addiction, it’s rough I get clean then backslide just to go through the torture of detox, again and again knowing how miserable and the things I would do to just never try a perc mane. To not understand that rewarding feeling when u are going through wd and get your fix, it’s all just such a curse.
Hows it going?
i know cigarettes are not as bad as this but i had the same issue, i used an electronic cigarette because i had no psychological attachment to it and it helped me quit. maybe find a healthier and less harsh drugs, and then after 3 weeks when you're used to not using fentanyl and not used to the new drug either try quitting. as i said, this worked with cigarettes so idk.
In philosophy and religion, dopamine/amygdala is connected to the vices (as connected with personal survival). Serotonin/Insula with the virtues (as connected with survival of the species). Reason-Awareness is recognizing that both of these systems need to be kept balanced and in harmony--as dopamine is connected with opioids (the reward for getting what you want, and making you want more--the cause of all addictions), or the stress (cortisol) and anxiety of not getting your desire (pains). The area being the cause of anxiety disorders, addictions, and heart disease.
On the other hand, the Insula is connected with DMT (why many Buddhists and "Enlightenment" seekers meditate and use diet to restrict their dopamine levels to "awaken" to the insula). This area also connected to manic-depression. Where many "spiritualists" end up with melancholia and severe depression (not enough serotonin), or if damage the amygdala, with too much DMT (leading to schizophrenia).
If read up on studies of DMT and LSD experiments (LSD connecting to insula system), no one has come back with any "secret" info or cures for cancer. DMT is just a hallucinogen that is probably used by the mind to give us a nice send off when we die (coming into play when the amygdala and dopamine levels drop to zero). There is no need to try and reach this state by use of drugs or "seeking after enlightenment"--this is modern science, not the ignorance of the past.
The goal is to move past these areas and know enough about your self to be aware of what your body needs to remain mentally and physically healthy. Where moderation is key to everything in life. Too much dopamine or serotonin or not enough dopamine and serotonin both leading to mental dis-ease. The Key--is the Golden Mean.
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.
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
Really good video, thanks!
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.
Beautifully written. Was this DMT experience?
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@@dmtdreamz7706wow sounds like it could be caused by dmt or similar due to near death experience. Have you read robert monroe too? Great stories of journeying out of the body.
I felt that
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This is a well delivered, concise explanation of this subject. Thank you.
Addiction is unnatural. What's hard about this is that you need to change both environment and your habits to bring about a change. And that is a losing battle. Education and reprogramming the subconscious mind as well as changing the environment is a hardprocess but the only thing you need to know is hope. There is hope. You can change. If this was a totally permanent situation this would be a terrifying situation.
Yeah it’s not permanent and your brain does recover. If you take the proper amino acids and vitamins you can naturally overcome addiction and withdrawals that way.
It's permanent for many people, the pain is too great.
Addiction is natural it is your brain our brains developed before we had these drugs
The society we live in is unnatural...
This is astounding. Too many take addiction for a joke rather than a serious matter of medicine and social standards.
Thank you for sharing with us!
Really good research, thanks
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This is such a great, easy to understand explanation. Thank you.
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Nice explanation.
But do we only get addicted in drugs abuse cases? I think we can also have addiction to normal things. How that can be explained
then what do we do with patients that refuse treatment and time and time again, relapse?
Wonderful research
Decision making > following impulses
Well if you don’t have a fixed mindset in life you can have your impulses align with your decision making in a productive and non destructive way😂
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Decisions aren’t always good😂
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Essentially, yes.
I cant get addict to anything cuz i dont have this funny sponge in the head
Thank you odin 🙏
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as an addict awaiting rehab i'm sad that yale made a 3 minute video on the subject.
Im 19 months sober today
good fucking job!
proud of you ...good job bro
If your watching this and reading it. Please Do Not DO it. It made my life a living hell. Im 7 years clean and im still suffering from this. I Might be permanently damaged. If you havent done it or are thinking about doing it DONT!!!! Please save your life.
Are there any known cures for addiction and reverse paranoid schizophrenia if the health professionals don't know / refuse to recognize you have either condition even after having a brain scan which shows it
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I went - almost - clean 16 months ago, and started eating - mostly - only whole foods, no sugar, nothing processed, and started exercising 4-5 times a week. I fall off the wagon around every 4 months, for one night at a time. I find that when I break the diet and eat some crappy food, I start craving ciggarettes and alcohol and drugs! I can't even eat some white rice without wanting to get droned!
You probably also feel that stressful situations make you want to use again? This is because your mind has learned that the solution to an internal problem (you feeling bad or stressed) has an external solution (drugs or alcohol). So next time you feel stressed and think about using, try to catch yourself thinking that and then make a list, preferably in writing, about what will happen if you give into the urge and use drugs vs what will happen if you do not and if you were to do something you know is good for you. Even if you still decide to use, this will train your brain to change the pattern of behavior to a different one. Keep doing this and you can change any habit, but it works especially well with drugs or alcohol.
So basically, as it is said in the video, every addictive substance makes your body produce dopamine which makes you fill satisfied hence you get addicted to it. But how come some people have told me they didn't enjoy the first time they tried an addictive substance? For example, I cannot stand being around people who smoke, I just hate the smell of it. My teacher told me he didn't like the first time he smoked so he never smoked again. Shouldn't all people enjoy using an addictive substance since it produces dopamine?
From what I GUESS, not everyone enjoys same things. Some people like chicken, others hate it. Some people like pork. Other hate it. Some people like alcohol. Others hate it. I THINK it's the same here. You may like drugs, or you can hate it.
Best way to get out of addiction? Never START.
the nicotine in cigarette increases your dopamine which will make you high, or distract you from the painful reality. i think your teacher didnt learn to smoke correctly, we want to take to smoke till lungs get 90% full. just kidding dont try smoking it ruined my life,s 1 year i quit smoking and my llips got pink again.
i think it's because the first time you smoke it literally burns your lungs so you can't get much dopamine out of it, as you get used to it you start getting high and liking it much and in the end you feel nothing even when you smoke. but it's about what you've said, i have friends that smoke a pack in a day with my friend group that don't smoke for 3 months afterwards
will be sober 43 years next sunday. i refused to believe i had a disease. i saw i had an addiction and i broke it. then i did the work on why it was i needed to drink. that was the real hard work. so glad i persevered though i now live with total freedom including freedom from carrying a label that says i have a disease. Yeeha
Anybody know the background musics name?
Do you have any info on addiction to social medias?
While it might be true that an already established addiction should be classified and treated as an illness, the behaviours and environments that lead to addiction can be prevented through will power (among other things).
Also, an addict might take it as an excuse that addiction is a brain illness and tell themselves they oughtnt even try
Clearly you missed the point.
ANY illness or disease u should fight to overcome it IF possible. You missed the point.
Scientifically speaking and they done studies on this mammals in Unhealthy environments are lot more likely to have addiction problems/behavior.
"While it might be" Dude it is true and how do you guys come to the conclusion that people finding out they have a decease leads to them NOT wanting to cure it?
This logic makes no sense
So whats the solution ???
There isn't one
It sucks, but the solution is abstinence.
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Abstinence, changing your environment, and lots of nutrients like magnesium.
Or you can try to replace one addiction for another that's less damaging on your life.
Like my ex girlfriend had a gambling addiction. I simply bought her a gaming system PS4, and her gambling habit reduced significantly
Take away everything that gives you extensive pleasure for months.
I wonder why then addicts can use willpower to stop their addiction
depends on the severity of the addiction, usually if its an extreme level they have to play self binding tactics to overcome it
What is it about dopamine that feels "good"? Without a circular definition.
Substance use kicks the can down the road initially when dealing with painful emotions. It works until it doesn’t. The end of that road is a drop off cliff with no way back.
So can the brain be returned to normal physically?
How does dopamine affect your mood post-sex?
Are those changes permanent or they can be reversed when stopped using drugs?
Then how to get our brain to its normal dopamine level??
I'm addicted to anime and I don't regret it even music also.
It makes me feel good.
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I feel like I can’t quit porn since it’s so easy to search up even if i block it I still search if the urge is strong enough
Most of the people are addicted to the phones and social how can i stop these
It’s so obvious with the effects of porn and heavily edited Instagram and ethots, that now men are calling Margot Robbie mid and a solid 4/10. Reminds me how when i was 19 my then partner would compare me to all these unrealistic beauty standards then it wasn’t until he started going outside more that he appreciated my beauty more and also discovered all the girls he was comparing me to were catfishes and heavily edited
You stuck with someone who compared you to other women?!
As a man I can tell you many of us are desperate for any kind of affection
I wish I was addicted to Social Media like RUclips rather than being addicted to gaming
u have the power to do that go for it
Nah it's not a disease, it's just your brain adapting according to the status quo.
Addiction in next step in evolution of brain.
Its funny for me , i dont actually knows am i addicted or not . As i tries any detox , very soon i convince myself that i am not addicted . By the way i am talking about yt and instagram , not something seriously addictive .
The drug is, for many a medicine. It's the (perceived) solution to a problem. The "disease" (this word is easily misunderstood) is the dis- ease of the mind. The mind is I'll at ease. It needs help. And the drug; whatever that mind altering thing is, is the help; and a life wrecker.
So there’s no hope…considering it’s a reflex?
Isn't it crazy how the human brain, being the most useful organ is also the most harmful
Can we say Sport is the ultimate cure for this or not
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It's not an addiction..it's a biological craving...I stopped...and if I can...you can...I stopped without going to AA meetings
Yeah I find it very weird that people keep separating will power from addiction when you can just literally stop abusing a substance with willpower lol
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@sebastianphilipps1754 Read a dam book...look at the people who have done it...will power...awareness
@@sebastianphilipps1754 love yourself more than you love somebody else..work on the losing your past and picking up your present and future..Think greater than your circumstances....get a new dam circle of friends...it takes work but it's doable
@sebastianphilipps1754 it's the environment not the sustance...
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The antidote to addiction is adsilentium.
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Just because it changes the structure of the brain does not mean it is something we cannot control. Fallacious argument. In addition, we see the effects of addiction, not as a 'brain disease' itself but rather an external source that affects the brain. Such a skewed way to talk about this.
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My brain's foolin me 😨
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TELL THEM AGAIN IT NOT WILL POWER IT A BRAIN DISEASE
It often comes down to whether someone's neurochemistry runs either on dopamine or acetylcholine. My brain is much more dependant on acetylcholine.
How did you figure that out? 😊
Im glad im sober 😎
I know it’s hard to stop, but one day you will overcome the addiction of reading comments after watching a video. I know you are reading this one too 😂😂😂
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What's going on in the brain during addiction?
According to the magazine of the Harvard Mental Health Center that I mentioned earlier, our brain treats all satisfactions in the same way. Whether it comes from drugs, from money addiction, from excessive thirst, from unhealthy food consumption or from self-indulgence, etc.; It's just that they're all the same in the parts of the brain they're dealing with and the neurotransmitter (primarily dopamine) chemicals they produce.
In simple terms; When information about any addictive substance reaches our brain, it causes the release of the neurotransmitter dopamine. Neurotransmitters are chemicals that act as office messengers when a nerve cell wants to transmit an electrical signal to another cell.
So when we say that this dopamine is responsible for the functioning of the neurotransmitter, we mean it. In our brain, there are nerve cells that generate electricity: they are called neurons. As soon as the boy Hasan smokes, these neurons in our brain begin to produce chemicals called dopamine. (Just like we spray on our clothes.) They like these dopamine chemicals with an electrical signal.
The other neuron has a receptor cell that hits the body (like a ball bounces off a net). It is at this time that the feeling of arousal comes, just like touching the tail of a light switch with our finger and making it turn on. Which brings us back to that - alcohol. These dopaminergic chemicals regulate the temporal lobes of our brains. When repeated | Again, it becomes addictive.How does the brain experience addiction?
Until recently, scientists believed that the experience of temporary gratification alone made an addict, "an addiction to the point where they say, 'Repeat to me.'" However, recent studies have shown that the situation is a much more complex science. That is, the chemical dopamine itself is not the only one that brings that temporary satisfaction. In addition, the child's memories about the drug, the use of the drug (for example, the time, place and situation when he smokes secretly) and the situations in which he used the drug, the times he still uses it, and even his friends (a role in learning and memory of drug use) are controlled by the same dopamine chemical.
Dr. Jackie Daniels, senior specialist at the Indiana Rehabilitation Center, explains more about this. The Harvard Journal of Psychiatry analyzes that dopamine is the main chemical in the child's brain responsible for providing memories and longing, from liking the drug to falling into addiction. He also explains that dopamine does this by interacting with another neurotransmitter, specifically glutamate. And this glutamate is the most abundant type of protein in our bodies that we all need for basic nutritional satisfaction.
Glutamate, for example, works to make us eat meat, "appetite closed, open" etc. In our brain, however, it serves us in an overlapping role as a neurotransmitter. But just like a wild child addicts the good neighbor, every time the hormone dopamine, a drug chemical or signal comes to the brain saying "let's party and dance! let's have fun", it destroys this good and obedient chemical of glutamate in all parts of our body.
The combination of these two chemicals causes the child's brain and body to feel a particular temporary satisfaction during the free time (for example, drinking and smoking), which makes him want that drug again and again. He is becoming addicted to this time.666 code to control brain chemicals
Basically, when we study the chemicals of dopamine, neurons, glutamate, etc., which are used by users of the 666 code to control people with addiction, they have a carbon atom in them. For example, if we look at the hormone dopamine, it has 8 carbon atoms of 666 atoms and its chemical formula is CaHNO2. Glutamate's chemical form is CH9NO4, and it has 5 carbon atoms lined up for the chemical compound.
In a health column published by The Guardian on 07/2019, he shows us how getting a good night's sleep can help the brain recover and repair damaged neurons. What we see here is that the repair is mainly done on the DNA of the neuron. If it has DNA, it must have a carbon code. We have seen again and again that this is the code of 666 (ie carbon 12 with 6 electrons, 6 neutrons and 6 protons).
Therefore, the secret hand that rules the world using the 666 code is using this carbon 666 chemical here for addiction.
The main chemical that allows us to control our brains is the main chemical, the main actor in all of them, drugs, alcohol, money worship, fleeting desires and activities. These include, for example, hemp and beer chemicals that use carbon primarily. As soon as they enter our body, the dopamine chemical they activate in our brain has a carbon structure.
This primary carbon 666 chemical coordination function enslaves man. A research report included in the Conservapedia database entitled "Atheism and Dris Addiction" explains that most Westerners who fall under the slavery of drug addiction end up denying the Creator, God, and accepting the practices of 666 satanic spirits.Anti-drug campaign /War on drugs/ to spread drugs
My dear family, I have already shown you how to prevent the use of drugs, cigars, alcohol and others. We have also seen the introduction of Prohibition or the Noble Experiment method in America. Similarly, the anti-drug campaign in the United States began in 1971 under President Richard Nixon. The Business Insider magazine, in its February 19/208 report, detailed the 20 American presidents who were supporters of the secret 666 Illuminati. Among them are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and now Richard Nixon, who is indebted to this expansion of drugs and alcohol.
Business Insider reports that Richard Nixon founded a secret Illuminati group called the Red Brotherhood in 1993. If we look at it from this point of view, we can see that the project started by Nixon under the name of anti-drug campaign was deliberately made for the purpose of promotion to increase the number of drug users. As a proof of this, we can see on page 24 of the commission's publication WAR ON DRUG that an institution called the World Drug Policy Commission has greatly distorted the historical course of the anti-drug campaign.
If he says the words we notice in this publication, "the global war on drugs has failed with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world". When it is translated, he explains that "... the world anti-drug campaign has led to many losses and failures for the individuals and societies of the world, and the project itself has ended in failure..." Although this project was discontinued, the 666 code user groups achieved the desired results. The idea of the article is that they have increased the number of addicts to a surprising extent. Let me show you some good evidence for this.
For example: in 998, there were 12.9 million cocaine users in the world; But in 2008, it increased to 7 million, which is 27%, according to the United Nations report.
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dude thats a 100 page book right there
You misunderstood atheism. Worshiping Satan is not atheism 😏
why u bringing religion to this science related topic
weirdo lol
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It's a coping mechanism to deal with negative outlook on life or reaction to circumstances. Not a labeled disease. Plenty of studies on Vietnam vets coming home who abused drugs in war to go through it. When they returned to loving families addictions were gone. Same for meth users in ww2.
Although not all had warm homes waiting for them. Also cocaine studies on rats...
Addictions can fall off naturaly if you just start meditate or chill and care for how you feelin the moment. If you in decision to take the drug consider how crash or after effect would feel. All you need to fill the void or gap with self care and self love and not drugs.
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