Something about dopamine you should know. : r/selfimprovement
There's a lot of content about dopamine online and people tend to believe that it can deplete. Yet what really happens is far more interesting than I used to think. Super quick trip into biology: First of all, there are specific neurons (the cells that produce, transmit and receive information), that release dopamine and there are receptors that receive it. So the first hoax is, that the dopamin source is limited. What really happens is, that the receptors receive less dopamine due to overstimulation. Your body protects itsself from overstimulation by numbing the receptors. How does this look practically? Activities that used to be joyful for you do not move anything inside of you anymore. Strumming the guitar, meeting friends, learning new things, striving for what's meaningful inside of you - all of the enthusiasm will be gone. It's basically muted, just like you push the mute button for the TV too hard and you can't unmute it anymore. Are the receptors broken? Not at all, but what i