The Dopamine Addiction
2 min readOct 12, 2021
We live in a world of excessive indulgence.
We’re addicted to dopamine, a neurotransmitter that creates pleasure and pain. So there’s immense pleasure in the next cup of coffee, the Twitter notification, or the next email.
What felt pleasurable begins to hurt. The pleasure turns into pain.
Dopamine addiction creates a vicious cycle of pleasure to pain.