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233: Start to Heal: Letting Go of Your Pain Identity with Inka Land

The Lavendaire Lifestyle

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The Effects of Dopamine and Serotonin on Mental Health

Dopamine and serotonin are two neurotransmitters that create quite a lot of attention in mental health space. So dopamine is this kind of motivational neurotransmitter that increases our movement, our thrive, our wanting to do this. But it's also linked to rewards and your brain starts producing dopamine through learning process. If we use too much of things that gives us fast dopamine that's not getting us anywhere, like social media, whereas it might be entertaining and make us feel good, it makes our dopamine sort of spike a lot.

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