Dopemin

Social media and the internet messes up your dopemine receptors. Food increases or donp mean by about 50%. Sex increases, doubles. We i think what happens is we pathologize a lot of normal behavior. You see gaming being pathologized. Anyone who plays a lot of games is told that they must be addicted to it. They're not. Unless it's severely impacting on your work life or your college life or your relationships. It's not problematic if you just really enjoy doing a thing a social media. Most of what we're doing is connecting with our friends. And in fact, some researchers in the u k. Put together a really good scale and which they