0:07 Hello everyone, welcome back to Xinhe Ferry What we're talking about today May upend your perception of addiction whatever your addiction no matter how big your addiction is Maybe you can get some inspiration from it Generally we think of an addiction to something It must be because of the pleasure it brings This statement is true but not quite true in fact When many addicts repeat addictive behaviors I can't feel happy anymore But if the addictive behavior is not repeated they will be very painful Why is this so it starts with me When I was in the third year of high school, my study was average In addition, the task is heavy and stressful Soon I got into the habit of going to Internet cafes to play games Because only with a gun on the computer when bludgeoning the enemy I can let myself breathe In order to feel the fun of high school life
0:53 so from the beginning I just want to escape the pain of learning I chose to use games to numb myself Then I went to class and wanted to eat and sleep I still want to have expectations for the game all the time It also makes the task heavier and more stressful learning pain Let me have a deeper dependence and desire for the game Addiction is formed even hit The game no longer has the thrill of the first time but if you don't hit I can only go back to reality and bear the pain of learning It hurts to think about it Hahaha Hahaha This is how many addictions are formed. Just imagine You go to the shift from nine to night every day Carrying the burden of raising a family every day The pressure of work and life squeezes you no space Maybe you can only run to the toilet to smoke a cigarette and brush your phone Play games and have some beer late at night to bring a moment of pleasure
1:38 Because those are the times when you are most relaxed But after enjoying the pleasure brought by dopamine The pain is still waiting for you And the back and forth will make you feel more painful So you run away every chance you get Evasion is shameful but useful and fun Driven by pain you're addicted to pleasure this happy May be smoking and drinking Sex Addiction Internet Addiction Mobile Addiction Game Addiction food addiction and more Anything that stimulates the brain to release dopamine act of pleasure possibility of addiction And the more dopamine released more prone to addiction Once addicted, it is harder to quit Fortunately, the way we talk today from Stanford University Professor of Addiction Medicine at the School of Medicine anna lenbuk past 25 years He's been working on a cure for gambling video game heroin Addiction to various things So he has the absolute right to speak about addiction For example, he multiplied by a case in this book
2:25 a young man Smoking, drinking and smoking marijuana since the age of 17 Cocaine use at 18 Switched to OxyContin and Alpzolam at age 19 What kind of heat breaking system did you use one after another in your 20s? Fentanyl, LSD, PCP, etc. I can't even name these When he came to see Professor Rumbok 14 drugs have been used so compared to him Our addictions are all pediatrics. In order to facilitate the understanding of the principles of addiction Let's get to know dopamine first This neurotransmitter is the equivalent of a universal currency Scientists generally use it to measure the personal likelihood of addiction such as chocolate Can increase the release of dopamine in the brain by 55% Sex performance can be improved by 100% Nicotine increased by 150% amphetamine, the main ingredient in some drugs Can increase by 1,000%
3:11 obviously The addiction level of these things is also increasing So some behaviors once tried It's really hard to quit Some people may think that just try once strong willpower so no problem nonexistent due to the pain of withdrawal It can also be evaluated according to this magnitude Someone described the feeling of drug withdrawal It's like after a broken body I'm still moving my body Just thinking about it makes your scalp tingle, right? in the brain Only 0.0005% of brain cells produce dopamine almost negligible But it's just a little bit of chemicals Let people have seven emotions and six desires Also make life colorful However, the main role of spotty It's not about making people feel happy after receiving a reward Rather, it drives people to be motivated to receive rewards Like you're happy eating a piece of chocolate The brain remembers the feeling Next time I see chocolate Dopamine activates wall circuits in the brain
3:57 You can enjoy the silky feeling before eating And the urge to eat it You see dopamine is released before pleasure so it doesn't bring you happiness but to make you long for happiness but if you don't eat this chocolate Unsatisfied longing and pain follow scientists found Areas of the brain that process pleasure It overlaps with the area that deals with pain It's like we have a balance in our brain When nothing is placed at both ends balance in balance When we eat chocolate, play games and swipe our phones The scale is starting to tilt towards the happy side The bigger the tilt, the happier we are But any living system have a powerful self-regulatory mechanism The brain tries to keep the scales in balance Just apply an equal amount of pressure on the other side It can be imagined as a group of pain elves running over
4:42 sit on the other side When the pleasure experience wears off balance is natural Naturally tilted to the side of pain so Sometimes I feel empty after swiping my phone all morning Feel lost when you come back from a trip that's why You want to get rid of the feeling of emptiness and loss Just keep putting more weight on the happy side so you have to have another chocolate play another game but here's the problem It's actually dopamine that's at work. it makes us appreciate the reward A very important mechanism for always maintaining the desire reward prediction error That is to say, the actual reward has to exceed expectations. The second chocolate should be smoother than the first The second game is more exciting than the first Otherwise the mottled effect will be reduced The pleasure produced will also be diminished This is called neural adaptation It's like adding pain to your side There are more and more elves The problem is the high you're after is short-lived
5:28 is capped Those elves are long term and unlimited They camped out on the other side I am determined to fight a protracted war for you In the end you still can't beat them You can feel the threshold of happiness will be higher and higher The pain the elves bring you is getting deeper and deeper The balance is no longer balanced Instead, always lean towards the painful section cause anhedonia So for heavy addicts Don't tell them to quit addiction Normal life is already a pain some drug addicts those drugs for them probably about the same as salt water but no way they just can't quit because only continue to suck They're the ones who can bring the balance back into balance This looks kind of ironic pursuit of extreme happiness as a result, unable to enjoy any form of pleasure Addiction may be enough once
6:14 But how long does it take to quit addiction? one year ten years If I say it again, you might have to curse turn off the video don't run In fact, according to the clinical experience of Professor Renbok Reset Brain Award The minimum time required for a project loop is generally one month We don't seem long But if you really want to let you not use your mobile phone or play games for a month don't smoke or drink don't do what you most want to do can you really hold back And a big problem is What should I do this month to get myself through you might be thinking Can I use a low ban? Instead of a high ban Get rid of this idea as soon as possible The brain is not so gullible I used to lose weight Try Diet Coke to help you quit Coke Who knew diet coke was like a hook makes me crave more coke As a result, Coke did not quit Drink an extra can of Diet Coke every day Combined with the suggestions in the book, I have summarized three methods
7:01 mechanism of action of dopamine Allows you to efficiently restore the balance of the balance and minimize withdrawal pain pain cure pain Since the brain area responsible for pleasure is also responsible for pain Since the brain balances pleasure with pain, Then if we instead actively pursue pain Does the brain balance pain with pleasure? Researchers at Charles University in Prague Get 10 volunteers Soak in cold water at 14 degrees Celsius for an hour sample their blood turn out dopamine in their plasma Concentration increased by 250 percent Duration of high dopamine levels well beyond the duration of the painful stimulus That is to say This method of treating pain with pain is feasible pain triggers the body's own homeostasis regulation mechanism When we take the initiative to increase the weight in the painful period The body also balances painful sensations with pleasure
7:46 and often the duration longer We should have all experienced the feeling of pain and happiness like eating chili Although stimulating the pain sensory nerve But the more you eat, the more enjoyable you are like watching a horror movie Even though I'm sweating profusely from fear, I still feel good Another example is sports You insist on running for 5 kilometers and you are exhausted You can also gain a kind of pleasure called runner's orgasm you can choose one of the Exercise may be the best option from a health standpoint Because it releases dopamine in addition to Can also promote the release of other neurotransmitters Such as norepinephrine, endorphins, etc. like endoderm Provides pleasure while relieving pain And it's different from chasing pleasure The pleasure generated by pain not only does not make us anxious Instead, it relieves anxiety long time after pain your mood will improve focus more Of course more importantly
8:31 You can in the process of closing the eyes Feel the joy that dopamine brings to you like pain is our pleasure pay the same price Pleasure is also the reward we get from pain Two physical blocking After becoming addicted to something or behavior Sensitization of the brain that is You are particularly sensitive to things related to addiction They'll hook your addiction out make you repeat addictive behavior There is a case in the book An addict with the last name used to recover well The first day he saw naked women on TV he endured Saw body paint on my phone the next day he endured again On the third day he couldn't take it anymore my head is about to split Bring back the handicraft machines that have been thrown away Crazy output So if you want to quit addiction completely addictive substances and all things addictive no one left Get rid of it all
9:17 If you are addicted to spending money, close the Huabei IOU Credit card cancellation salary all handed over If you are addicted to playing games, log off your account delete the game What switch check box sell it or give it away smoking addiction Let the family hide all the cigarettes in the house Don't be around people who smoke if you don't have to purpose of doing this It's to cut you off from the drug completely. Don't Let Them Hook Your Addiction Out Don't try to give yourself room to maneuver Hide some private money and keep a trumpet to ask others for cigarettes It's better not to borrow Because once you lower your standards your standards will get lower and lower I used to borrow the game like this I thought I played it anyway, so I might as well play it again. In the end, the trumpet practiced at a higher level than the tuba Hahaha Of course I know it's not easy But I can't bear to force myself Can't quit addiction You can use the first method with
10:03 Stimulates the release of dopamine anyway Your brain doesn't care if you're masturbating or letting go 3 radical honesty no one will What's the point of voluntarily acknowledging yourself Even in various ways to cover up own meaning Anyway, I used to go to Internet cafes to play games I always lied to my parents about going to a classmate's house to review my homework afraid of being beaten this is one aspect The main reason is that I know myself this is not a benign behavior So you can only deceive yourself and others by lying for reasons other than shame more importantly cut off the brain wall Connection between the upper circuit and the forehead eyelid Brain's reward circuitry is activated in addiction lie again ruins Constraints of the prefrontal eyelid on the reward circuit The preocular cortex is responsible for rational decision-making and future planning The result is The brain really thinks you're not addicted you just relax and have fun don't mind
10:48 So in many addiction treatment programs both involve strengthening and rebuilding the connection between the two And honestly it can be done researchers found Stimulate the prefrontal cortex Can increase one's honesty vice versa when we admit to addiction Activity in the prefrontal cortex is also enhanced Improve self-control Let us choose to delay gratification more rationally The specific way is when the addiction comes You meditate in your heart what addiction I have i want to quit this addiction if you can let go you just find the people around you Declare this sentence to him solemnly It's better than saying it in your head First of all, this sense of ritual Greater stimulation of the preocular cortex Second, humans are social animals It might be a fake Play it 100 times and it's real In the end you told so many people They all played a supervisory role Someday you solidify Fu Meng and let them see
11:34 Where to save face, right? These 3 methods are superimposed Trust me you will experience the joy of change I just keep playing every morning balls and cold showers It's really good when it's over And work more focused and energetic One last thing I want to say Let's not be ashamed of what we are addicted to In many cases, it’s really not what we want to show off. no self-motivation, no willpower It's the pressure of reality that makes us breathless But now we also know those escapist addictive activities does not solve the problem Instead, it will cause more serious problems Today's content is a bit long Thank you guys for persevering see here Do you also feel that there is a little dry stuff? So I hope everyone can click three times If this still doesn't help you remember to leave me a message I'll think about it
