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Ok, before making quick searches on 'how to leave mobile addiction, drug addiction and your other addictions'? Lets find out what is the main reason that makes you addicted to something. The main reason that makes you addicted to something is hormone 'Dopamine'.
Now, not going through the complex science explanations, I will simply explain you the whole concept.
What is Dopamine ?
Dopamine is a hormone and a neurotransmitter that makes you feel pleasure or makes you feel good ,excited and happy. So, when you do such activity which is related to your desire or that entertains you, your mind quickly releases the dopamine and you start getting all pleasures and feel happy and good. So, It plays a very great role in building your interest on different things because you are more likely to do such things repeatedly in which you feel good. So, to make you clear that dopamine leads you to such excitement and pleasures, I would like to give you an example. You must have heard about the laughing gas [Nitrous oxide]. When you inhale it, it increases the dopamine level in your body(mind) and cause euphoria which is a state of intense excitement and happiness caused due to dopamine.
So, In case of your phone addiction, I would like to make you clear that you are not addicted to your phone, you are actually addicted to the sensation or pleasure you receive through your phone. That's why a phone with a blank display cannot give you pleasure and make you feel happy and excited but a phone with information of your interest can. Always remember that your mind and dopamine have a very strong relationship and dopamine is like the favourite food of mind. So, your mind will release dopamine in any way and this is one of the reason that you are own self forced to use your phone although you try to stop yourself.
Why do you feel bored after doing something for a long time ?
You may have noticed that when you use your phone for a long time, you start feeling bored but after sometime you again want to use the phone. Well, I will explain you the reason.
See, when you are using your phone, your brain is releasing dopamine at the same time and you are experiencing all those pleasures and feeling happy and relaxed but after long time of use of phone and dopamine releasing, homeostasis occur in our body. Homeostasis is the ability to maintain the internal body conditions like maintaining temperature, chemical levels, fluid limits etc. This process also stops the release of dopamine because body has to maintain the chemical and hormone level. Now, what happens is when dopamine is not released, you stop getting pleasure or happiness and your excitement level goes down. Then, you start feeling bored although you are watching something interesting in your phone. After sometime, the dopamine level also decreases and when your dopamine level decreases, your mind again need the dopamine because mind is also addicted to dopamine and mind loves the dopamine and your mind again start to crave for the same pleasure to release the dopamine. So, craving for the same pleasure again and again for releasing dopamine in different time intervals is known as ADDICTION. SO, This addiction can be of any type like of smoking, drugs, watching movies and even T.V serials and junk food. So, it isn't good to start doing your important works after watching or doing something interesting because you have already released dopamine on your previous work and now your body will stop the release of dopamine and you think like you have no energy for your next work or your important work.
Lets, take an another example. If you think deeply, you can find that drug addicts are not addicted with the syringe or drug powder, actually they are addicted to the sensations or pleasures which they receive after they inject the drug in their body. Look, Here's also the same process, when they inject the drug in the blood, the mind quickly release dopamine which make them feel very good, calm and pleasured. So, for that time the mind becomes happy because it got the dopamine but after sometime the dopamine level decreases and the mind again crave for the same pleasure for the release of dopamine due to which an addict loses his/her control and need the sensation at any cost. This whole process is termed as one complete cycle of drug addiction.
So, we must understand phones, drugs, and other similar things are just the mediums to reach the pleasures and sensation but are not the real addiction. All addictions are related with human biology. So, to conquer your addiction, you must learn to conquer the sensations.
I hope you have understood much about addiction and the real cause of addiction. If you have any question, please comment down. I have a also made a blog for conquering all your addiction. For that visit www.simplelifeexplanations.blogspot.com
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