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#638 Addicted To Drama - Dr. Scott Lyons

Mental Illness Happy Hour

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The Dopamine Response to Trauma

How many people have trauma where you have, it was too much or not enough of something in your life and it overwhelmed your system? And then how many of us did something to avoid our pain? That would be everyone. It's a universal experience. We mistook intensity for intimacy. There's a dopamine response that says, Hey, this is better because at least we're not feeling that sense of death. The cycle of getting hits from being rebbed up continues.

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