Dopamine:The Happy Hormones

Have you ever heard about Dopamine? 

Many of you might have because it's the trending neurotransmitter or hormone in the internet presence in your brain. To those who haven't heard just sit back, & relax because I'm gonna explain to you in simple. Dopamine is called happy hormone because when you do something which is extremely pleasurable then dopamine production sky rockets. Dopamine is also produced right now also when you are reading this but in a very small amount.

You might have got hooked by web pages or social media, at that time the multi-billion dollar company with the world's top neuroscientist aiming for one thing 'your attention' and to get that they hijack your dopamine system. Most of you are in a situation where you want to be productive and do your work but you are doom scrolling even though you don't like it. Then guess what, exactly, your dopamine system was hijacked and you got hooked on their platform giving your important time and attention.

Dopamine makes you feel pleasurable and feels good for a little moment then the reverse happens. What's your favourite food, book or movie? At first when you eat that food, watch and read and you feel extremely happy. Your dopamine is in its peak state. If you eat that food again, watch the movie again, read the book again, then you'll be happy but not like the first time. If you do it 10 times you feel not so good or bored. In the repetition of some pleasurable things your brain gets adapted to tolerate it. So you don't feel that happiness or pleasure when you do it for the first time rather than others.

Then what's the problem with dopamine?

Dopamine is a reward hormone or any sort of motivation to do work. In doing something which can produce lots of dopamine then your brain will be prone to do that. If you do some extremely pleasurable things then your dopamine sky rockets but here's the catch it will drop down. If you can imagine it in a graph then, when it goes up right after that it goes below the base line and you feel kind of worry, regret, shameful, low self-esteem. You also can imagine in a see-saw. If you get a lot of pleasure or dopamine then your see-saw shifts towards you but soon not so late the pain comes and it shifts towards it. Your pleasure is no longer remaining and at this time you feel extremely bad but soon after you feel normal. If you do hard things like exercise, working on your goal which doesn't get instant gratification then your dopamine was below the base line when you were exercising, the pain was stronger against your pleasure but sometimes you feel good about yourself. It is that dopamine which rises & has a good feel comes.