Can dopamine cause brain damage?

The answer may surprise you.

When your brain is overstimulated by high levels of dopamine, a few different things happen.

Firstly, your dopamine reward center downregulates. This means, essentially, that it makes more and more of your dopamine receptors dormant so they're no longer capable of receiving dopamine, which is your brain's way of saying:

"Holy smokes that's a lot of dopamine, turn it down buddy - and if you won't, I will!"

The net result of this is a phenomenon called desensitization, where your brain slowly but surely loses its sensitivity to normal, natural levels of dopamine... therefore requiring ever-greater amounts of it to feel the same amount of pleasure it used to.

Remember when you used to like reading, drawing, or some other low-stimulation simple pleasure?

But these days your brain just wants Netflix, YouTube, games, porn, weed, booze, and other low-value high-stimulation behaviors?

That phenomenon is caused by desensitization.

Secondly, what happens is a brain change called *Hypofrontality, *something that porn, cocaine, alcohol, heroin, video games, and every other highly stimulating and potentially addictive behavior has in common. It's where the Frontal Cortex region of your brain literally starts shutting down, losing its ability to function at full capacity because of decreased bloodflow. Considering how this is the part of the brain that controls critical thinking, decision making, and impulse control... that's pretty bad news for a man who wants to live a high-integrity, high-output, exceptional life.

In fact, it's fair to say it's one of the worst things possible for that kind of man.

The good news?

While, yes, these things are quite literally *damaging as f!@# *for your brain... it's not the same thing as actual, physical-trauma-induced brain damage.

Namely, due to neuroplasticity and the fact that there's no actual physical, lasting, irreversible damage done... once you get your bad habits under control, your brain will start to heal itself and eventually revert back to its baseline, healthy self.

So no matter how much damage you've done to yourself, your relationships, or whatever else through excessive porn, masturbation, video games, or whatever other vices have been pulling your strings... you can reverse it. You just need to stop the offending behaviors long enough to allow your brain to heal... and then the truly tricky part... stay stopped, because once you've had a compulsive behavior and successfully removed it, if you ever let it back in it can very quickly reassert its power over you.

Everyone's seen this with the ex-alcoholic or ex-smoker who has "just one" and before you know it, is right back at square 1.

We don't want that to be you.

Heck, there are a lot of things I don't want for ya.

I don't want you to have to take even more years of your life just figuring out how to get clean from this crap. I don't want you to get clean but then fall back into the trap because you didn't know how to lock into that better way of living permanently with an air-tight, legacy-level plan for the future. I don't want you to keep spinning your wheels and getting nowhere.

When you're ready to take the most important step in your recovery journey, it's simple.

Quietly admit to yourself that you're ready for some help.

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