The diminishing returns of dopamine in addiction

Dobomine is a chemical in the brain that drives motivation. When we forage for things on the phone, it has certain components of addiction. We're getting less and less pleasure from it as we do it more and more. And i don't think this has been talked about enough, is it starts becoming like if our phones were out, and we weren't being good about it, or you didn't have some sort of contract. It becomes obsessive compulsive disorder.

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