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Dopamine doesn’t make you happy.
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This whole experience has taught me how deeply people misunderstand dopamine.
Dopamine doesn’t make you happy (serotonin is more responsible for mood and feeling well).
Dopamine simply gives you a rewarding feeling for doing something. It encourages you to keep doing something because it feels good.
But repeatedly feeling good doesn’t equal happiness…. While on stims I was constantly getting hits of “feel good,” but I was deeply depressed.
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