Ep 119: Emotional Spending + self-soothing habits that hurt
Help Me Be Me
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The Effects of Shopping on the Brain
We're self-medicating a sense of longing or emptiness it's like the body feels hungry but we don't know for what because nothing quenches it. Dopamine dopamine is not only something that releases when we have sex but it's also something that releases when we have delicious food or we learn something new so when it comes to like shopping the same exact thing is being released. People who have less of an addiction to shopping have activation in their pleasure center but they also have activation in the insula which is like where you process pain.
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