How Dopamine Detox Saved My life

Do you like watching cat videos more than doing your work?

 Are you looking at your phone every 5 minutes? You could be suffering from dopamine toxication.

If I didn’t start dopamine detox I would be stuck daydreaming about starting my blog. I would be watching cat videos, cooking videos, and how-to scam-a-scammer videos…

How did I escape that and started focusing on my blog?

Dopamine detox…

Let’s see if it’s your case as well.

Dopamine works a lot like alcohol, dopamine is the thing that makes you excited when you wake up from bed when you want to do something fun,…

 If you are drinking just sometimes, you will only need one shot to get a little bit drunk, but when you drink every day, you will need more alcohol.

Rat test

There was a test done with rats, when a rat pushed the button it received dopamine. Your brain doesn’t care if it’s a productive and useful thing. Our brain only thinks in 1s and 0s. It doesn’t care how you receive the dopamine, it just looks for the easiest way to get it.

So the rat would spend the whole day just pressing this button, getting small rat-gasms. But basically, the rat stopped doing everything beneficial and was just pressing this button to get dopamine.

When you are dopamine intoxicated you no longer enjoy learning, doing the work, focusing, or meditating,…

Later they took the rat and added electrical wires. The rat went through massive pain, just to push the button. But when they tried it with food, it didn’t go for it. 

Meaning you would much rather push the dopamine button than survive thanks to food.

Beneficial things don’t give you a dopamine hit. They give you a small one but it can’t compare to phones and games and everything which is made to just stimulate the dopamine button. 

Like in rats, the button for us are phones, cat videos,…

When you are intoxicated you will start watching movies, eating bad food, and not being motivated to watch CEO interviews,…

What was once important to you is no longer important to you.

And how do you fix it?

Dopamine detox

You cut off all cheap dopamine, you have to stop doing everything that gives you cheap dopamine. You need to only get dopamine from the beneficial things. You need 2 days of dopamine detox. Need to stop playing games, watching stupid videos, scrolling social media, eating fats…

You will notice yourself getting motivated quickly when you start dopamine detox.

You will start enjoying things you already liked before.

Understand that your brain only searches for the easiest path to get dopamine!

It just thinks in ones and zeros.

You want to rig your brain to get dopamine from the things that make you fulfilled and productive.

I advise you to do one day of not eating with the dopamine detox mentioned above. And after the two days of not getting cheap dopamine hits, try to remove the things for as long as possible, because the more of it you introduce the less you will be pumped to do the useful things…

So what have we learned? -Conclusion

That if you do not enjoy the things you once used to, that ware productive its a sign of dopamine toxication. And what can fix you so that you enjoy the useful things is to cut off the cheap dopamine. You don’t have to cut it off forever, you just have to cut it off till you achieve the goal you are aiming for.

You are like a rat, your brain only wants dopamine and searches for the easy way to get it. Make it hard, cut off games, video games, and social media, for two days, and then it will come automatically. I advise you to try one day of fasting with it as well, it resets me very well.

Phones are like the rat buttons that rats were pushing getting electrified instead of eating food.

Change today. Do the dopamine detox and stay 100% committed to it.

Do you now understand the importance of dopamine detox?

(I hope you do :DD)