Meet Your Happy Chemicals
[Pages:43]Meet Your Happy Chemicals
Dopamine Serotonin Oxytocin Endorphin
Loretta Graziano Breuning, PhD
copyright 2012
When your brain releases one of these chemicals, you feel good.
Dopamine Serotonin Oxytocin Endorphin
copyright 2012 Loretta G. Breuning, PhD
It would be nice if they surged all the time.
copyright 2012 Loretta G. Breuning, PhD
But they don't work that way.
Each happy chemical has a special job to do, and it turns off when the job is done.
copyright 2012 Loretta G. Breuning, PhD
That's why we're always looking for ways to turn on our happy chemicals.
copyright 2012 Loretta G. Breuning, PhD
When we find something that works, we repeat it.
The brain builds a "happy-chemical habit."
copyright 2012 Loretta G. Breuning, PhD
Many happy habits have negative side effects.
Unhappiness results. Your brain may react by trying harder to trigger happy chemicals in the same old ways.
A bad loop...
copyright 2012 Loretta G. Breuning, PhD
For example:
I bet you can think of ten examples in ten seconds
We each struggle to manage a brain that seeks happy chemicals in the ways
it learned from past experience.
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