Dr Valerie Kreider DOPAMINE dysregulation = paranoia, overload & shutdown
Channel: Visceral Gravitas
Date: 2023-04-02

excerpt from https://youtu.be/GXCgekOpiEQ
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transcript: 
dopamine is the feel-good neurohormone
dopamine the feel-good neurohormone 
dopamine 
most of us have a dopamine burst after something we do that feels good 
burst
drinking a glass of water, getting a reward, eating, that kind of thing
and it also helps us to know what's important 
what to pay attention to
you know what's important

so dopamine isn't well managed in a brain that experiences psychosis 
sometimes the dopamine burst happens randomly all the time 
so maybe there's too much dopamine going on
so if I were to walk into my office for example and I would see a chair a window maybe a plant you know the desk 
normally I would pay attention to what's sitting at my desk the chair if I'm cold or hot 
getting ready to comfort myself because that work sitting on my desk is important 
but if I'm having too much dopamine in my brain
kind of bursting out randomly 
then suddenly everything becomes important
everything becomes important 
it's hard to distinguish how they're all connected
is the lamp connected with the desk somehow 
or is the desk connected with the chair
how is the window involved is there somebody outside the window
the brain is trying to make a pattern where there isn't one
it's working furiously and it comes up with something that isn't quite right because the neural hormonal balance is not regulated 
so when everything is important and everything is going on, our brain kind of overloads 
when the brain is over stimulated it wants to just shut down kind of ignore everything and then you get very flat
I don't want to move 
folks who struggle with these kinds of experiences tend to stay to themselves 
feeling like if they ever reached out they would just get criticized yet again 
apathy and like not caring, they're lazy, they have no feelings but they seem to be this kind of my mechanism related to hypersensitivity

the world is just too much
hypersensitivity 
the world expects too much of me
if we're growing up in a home where there's really a lack of affection
nobody to share good or bad experiences with 
nobody to talk process through with
then we have no foundation for building a self really
we have no feedback from the rest of the world 
there's no ground with which to build figures that enter into our world 
no ground with which to build
no ground