Dopamine Fasting 2.0 - Overcome Addiction & Restore Motivation

Thank you for having me After Skool! I've been telling all my friends how excited I've been about this collaboration. I can't think of a channel that's closer in alignment with our values so I'm stoked to be part of this. We are moving in to more spiritual and consciousness raising videos in the near-future (think Alan Watts and Terence McKenna). See you around After Skoolers and thank you again for watching! -Brandon

This material is outstanding. I once read a book with analogous content that transformed my life. "A Life Unplugged: Reclaiming Reality in a Digital Age" by Theodore Blaze

You sound like Russell Brand!

It bothers me that porn is represented here by a woman's body.

CBT NEEDS EXPLANATION !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This video has been on my "watch later" list two years and counting....

bad video.

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Dopamine fasting 2.0 changes the origin intent into a pavlovian behavioral protocal.

The first version was better...

If you know youve been addicted to tech for too long then try ignoring that behavior and substituting with one that is more healthy and natural.

Interesting the implicit irony here that tech is neither healthy or natural. ❤

Will this work for opioid addition 😢

Wow... Only 3 hours per day spent on smartphones on average? Fuck me, I'm practically on mine every waking second. I truly don't belong in this timeline............... FML

Anyone who clicked this video would enjoy and benefit from reading dopamine nation by anna Lembke. It helped me realize and begin to change the negative behavioral cycles i put myself through.

But how do i know how i feel moostly i dont even know how i feel so how do i know what im feeling

asdasdfsad Hey, a little off-the-wall. However, as a Christian, may I share with you the wonderful news that Jesus, the Perfect Son of God, came to earth to take the punishment we deserve for our crimes and rose from the tomb three days later? I'm conscious of the fact that I sound like I'm spewing nonsense. But if given the chance, I'd be grateful.

If so, shoot me a comment. Disregard this if it's not. thanks! asdfasdfs

ew men

so ironic, watching this from my phone while eating

What if the fact behind coke addiction is working for a shitty job for 1/3 of the day to make yourself survived and make your capitalist boss take %90 of the profit you make.

A month ago, I starter drinking a bottle of coke everyday after a 6 months of diet. Then I started to think I should stop drinking coke everyday, and I brought a pack of coke, but I didn't drink then. I think that's the so-called dopamine fasting process.

Deleting my socials as watching this 😂🫡

Been fighting gambling addiction for a year and half now I think I have found the right teaching to defeat it

such a PG version by some fresh out of university psychology student. lol. give me the hardcore version.

Just got done watching another video that said this theory is bullshit. Oh well.

What in this video I disagree about: that fasting from Dopamine is in any way going to lead one to happiness or any form of satisfaction. It will ONLY make us more able to become more sensitive to Dopamine.
What contribution you DID make to the topic: you are RIGHT that Dopamine as a instantaneous neurotransmitter is VERY quickly followed by a desire for more of it or a sudden feeling that you lack it.
Important Topic. Thank you for your contribution.

Thanks you 🎉

Oh wow haha "urge surfing" is something I recently started without realising. For me, it is just a case of not reacting immediately, thinking and reflecting, then respond. I became confused around my emotions and motivations in reactions to environmental stimuli, so thought best is don't act for a while and see what happens in the brain. But I call it "pausing"

Not the naked gal on insta 😂

how many just paused video to fap on the "insta girl" picture?

I love this video, but I have a tendency to reach out for bubble tea when stress hits and I need a sugar fix, I tried other fruits based drinks or any other natural sugar sweetness diet but nothing brought about the relief that bubble tea can.

Great Summery, Thanks!!

I'm addicted to knowledge 🧠

Tiktok kids are fucked lol

1. Identify the behavior
2. Identify the reward you’re craving
3. Identify the trigger
(Location, time, emotional state, other people, immediately preceding action)
4. Make a plan

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Farout I want a coke now 😅

Isn’t it that concerns just produce so good products, that our lack of will strength make us addicted to them?

Addiction is about histamine, not dopamine. Dopamine and serotonin both are red herrings. Medicine lies to you to make money off mental illness of every form. But it's all truly about histamine, the most important stress hormone and most important mood-related hormone period

I just finished watching “the Feed” it’s scary this movie is basically about this addiction being connected

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I've got the Freedom App which has really helped and also going on meditation retreats are an automatic way to dopamine fast as often they'll ask you to switch your phone off for the duration of the retreat.

I masturbate everyday before sleeping. The trigger is the hour (around 10pm), the reward is better sleep quality. If I don't do it I always have difficulties sleeping. Is this a bad behavior or addiction?

So...do it less...

Only the stupid believe in the nonsense in dopamine addiction. This is just nonsense.

In regards to the masturbation theory:
The reason why people feel hollow on the inside after masturbating alone doesn't actually have much to do with dopamine. The reason for the hollow feeling is because your idea of what you desire in that moment is an orgasm, but once you achieve the orgasm you feel hollow inside because what you actually desired was an intimate romantic connection with the person you fancy, but you're not with that person, you're just sitting there by yourself, all alone, perhaps wondering why you're feeling so hollow.

If you don't believe me, try masturabating with a partner that you're deeply attracted to, and see if you feel hollow after you orgasm... I bet you won't. You can also feel hollow after having sex with someone you don't really fancy (just meaningless sex for the sake of having sex), when in reality you wished you could've shared that moment with someone else. Ever heard of the "walk of shame"?, that's what that is.

I disgree with the idea of looking at explicit pics and restraining one's self. The superior stratagy is to see others as children of God and learn to treat them with dignity and pray for those who don't act as such.

Obviously, it is essential lesson to guide us being fasted upon the dopamine

I’m dopamine fasting to survive a breakup ,, I’ll be back to give update currently on my third day

Thank you for the wonderful explanation!