Are you addicted to #socialmedia ?

Using social media consistently down regulates your dopamine receptors. So basically you need more of it to get the same high. The same way that you end up needing more sleeping pills to fall asleep if you keep taking them, or more alcohol to get really drunk if you’re a heavy drinker.

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According to an article by Harvard University researcher Trevor Haynes, when you get a social media notification, your brain sends a chemical messenger called dopamine along a reward pathway, which makes you feel good. Dopamine is associated with food, exercise, love, sex, gambling, drugs … and now, social media. Variable reward schedules up the ante; psychologist B.F. Skinner first described this in the 1930s. When rewards are delivered randomly (as with a slot machine or a positive interaction on social media), and checking for the reward is easy, the dopamine-triggering behavior becomes a habit.

Try to read and meditate more, that will fix your overstimulated brain.

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