What Even Is A Dopamine Detox, & Should We Be Having One? What Even Is A Dopamine Detox, & Should We Be Having One?
Do you need to be watching something on a screen to feel comfortable and entertained? Can you bear the commute to work without blasting music through your earphones or radio? Do you find yourself scrolling mindlessly on social media without even realising? If the answer is yes, you might want to take a look at ‘dopamine detoxing’, a habit-breaking method that has taken the internet by storm.of misconceptions.
However, if you tend to scroll on social media for hours, spend the day watching TV or always have music playing, dopamine is constantly being produced in your brain. Eventually, you become accustomed to this increased level of dopamine, so that when you’re not engaging in these habits, and dopamine decreases, you might feel anxious or depressed, driving you back to those habits in need of a boost.
In fact, there is not a lot of evidence to prove that abstaining from a dopamine-stimulating habit in any form will decrease dopamine levels, but a lot of experts say that this was never the intention. According to, a biomedical engineering student at the University of Alberta, a decrease in dopamine levels would lead to ‘a medical condition like Parkinson’s’.
Instead, we should approach it as a healthy way of taking time away from screens and other stimulating objects. You are much more likely to see a positive result if you’re not expecting some scientific miracle that will make you live your best life. That is not going to happen.
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