The Consequences of Overconsumption

"I think that the truth is that these devices have made us more bored than ever," he says. "We've so overstimulated ourselves with these high dopamine stimuli, natural pleasures and natural awards are no longer interesting to us." To get out of our cyclical kind of compulsive use of these drugs, we have to be able to sit with that intense kind of boredom until those neuroadaptation gremlins hop off, homeostasis is restored, baseline dopamine firing goes back to original levels", Dr. David Perry says.