The end stage of dopamine deficiency is homelessness

Very often, I find that many people are not even aware of the most basic emotions, they are not able to recognise them.

Certain people are not even able to determine whether they have got hurt, they are angry, or nervous. When I ask whether she-he is afraid, sad, or guilty, I often meet blank stares, uncertainty. What I usually get upset about is when I communicate that I am angry about the other individual's behaviour and the other party, instead of getting my point and changing their behaviour, tells me confidently not to be nervous, or fearful, because "they know what they are doing"! Well, that really makes me nervous.

My dear Reader, Listener, if I pose you the question what the difference is between joy and happiness, can you answer it?

When, after a hard day, you are holding the cup full of hot coffee in your hand at last, are you glad about it, or are you filled with happiness?

What do you feel when unexpectedly, a guest arrives whom you love very much, and see only rarely, but while you have been doing a work which if you stop doing, you will have to start all over again? Can you be sincerely glad about the person, are you happy that you see them?

When people celebrate your birthday by giving you nothing but a ton of useless presents, what is it you are glad about, and what makes you happy?

What is the difference?

Many people cannot decide, either what clothing to wear, what to eat, or where to go on holiday in the summer. Is recognising the emotional signals easier or more difficult than weighing our everyday needs?

In any case, according to research, how easy or not it is for us to decide, to what extent we can start something, or do something in our own interest, depends on our dopamine level. More precisely, when the brain region responsible for the recognition of emotions, is activated by intense emotions, dopamine is released, and vice versa. Dopamine helps one to experience the pleasure, to see the positive in everything, to be able to be glad about everything and everyone who makes us happy.

Attention! Only positive emotions release dopamine, negative emotions block it.

So, when someone or something brings us joy regularly, that person, object, action, will trigger the feeling of happiness in the long run even when we just recall it or them, even when we just think of them.

Who is not able to be glad about the little things in life, is probably unhappy, and even more probably suffers from serious dopamine deficiency.

When our dopamine level is low, we are not able to be glad about either gifts, or help, and not even well-meaning advice, either. If the level is higher, however, then even the inanest trifle will make us give a jubilant sound, we can be glad about every news, information.

Joy expresses our momentary state when our topical needs are satisfied.

On a day full of ordeals, when we can get a coffee at last, there is an instant change in our mood.

If the coffee is terrible, then cheerfulness is gone, our joyful expectation is gone, but even the scent of delicious coffee makes how we feel, better, and the taste we are accustomed to gives the feeling of happiness.

A yearn for coffee is the most telling sign of our present dopamine level. If how we feel overall, depends on coffee, it is a sign that our dopamine level is very low.

Given that I have found entirely opposing opinions on the Internet whether roast coffee increases or decreases our dopamine level, I will not give an opinion concerning this, what is left is the drinking of coffee as a ritual.

Coffee unequivocally has a doping effect in the struggle of daily difficulties, but if we are dependent on it, that is already a sign that there is a problem.

According to the latest studies, there is a region in the brain which is the region of ancient instincts, and this part of the brain is responsible for emotional reactions. This area differentiates between emotions, it signals when we are hungry, how to react. It is the task of this area to satisfy our bodily needs, to eat, sleep, to tidy up our environment, to move, to drive us to satisfy our sexual desires, and even possibly to do something for our relationship, so that we will not just wait for a miracle. When sensual pleasures enter the picture, let it be by a delicious meal, an attractive person, dopamine production starts. The increased dopamine then spurs one to action so that we will acquire the desired subject, so that we will make it our own, devour it.

Warning! For us to be in love, serotonin surplus is needed. The basis of a happy relationship is optimal oxytocin. Dopamine gives the basis, the mood primarily for possession, for sexuality. If there is no partner, then by one's own hands.

Too much dopamine causes abrasiveness, but nowadays there is a lot more dopamine deficient people than the other type.

Dopamine is the energy of conquest. In the Middle Ages, soldiers meant possession by conquest, and with the obtained fortune, they made women theirs as well without any emotion. For emotions, serotonin is needed. Dopamine focuses only on personal pleasure, the other person's emotional state is indifferent to it.

Dopamine spurs us to get everything, rewards, praise, financial allowances. It makes persons, objects, food its own. How much my work is appreciated, how big my salary is, the financial allowances, bonuses, how much dividend I get, all these depend on my dopamine level.

I believe this is enough of a reason for us to get to know the operation of this hormone better.

The biggest challenge of dopamine deficiency is to realize that there is a problem, because dopamine is necessary for us to take care of ourselves, but because of the lack of this hormone, we do not care about our emotional-spiritual or physical needs. The individual in whom it does not work properly, will become downbeat, depressed, does not believe in anyone or anything, their image of the future is very negative, therefore it is very difficult to help them. More precisely, very complicated, it is difficult to make an effect on someone who has got lost in their own world, but still, it is our obligation to do so if we see that someone is sinking deeper and deeper.

When dopamine has run out, but the body is fighting to get the passing joy, then come drugs, alcohol, gambling, gaming machines.

The momentary joy gives us the opportunity to imagine how happy we will be when we have won the big prize. This imprisons us into the level of desire and our situation becomes more and more impossible to live in. In the absence of dopamine, we sink lower and lower, in both soul, and body, not to mention finances.

Nutritional disorders appear, whose result is that we reach for sugary or fat foods, we eat trash, which is blocking dopamine production even more.

With meals of a lower value, with foods boosted with flavour-enhancers, we are literally abusing ourselves, which we perceive subconsciously and because of this, we have a guilty conscience. Guilt stiffens our movement more and more, we withdraw more and more from cultural life, excursions, social life, family programs. In-coming money becomes less and less.

I know because I have gone through this, too.

Dopamine deficiency creates the false illusion that we are not important to anyone, anyway, so then why should I care about how I look.

Therefore, we can say that dopamine deficiency causes chronic defeatism, depression, mood changes, constant grumbling, criticizing others, a tendency to addictions, craving for sweets, low libido, concentration-and attention deficits, memory loss, sleep disorders, nutritional disorders, a lack of self-confidence, a guilty conscience, feelings of futility, in cases, aggressive behaviour, a tendency for violence, for raging.

This list is frightening enough, I believe, for us to take dopamine deficiency more seriously.

When someone is constantly tired, he-she has little mental and physical energy, cannot be enthusiastic about anything, has no motivation for change whatsoever, craves stimulating drinks, foods all the time, such as cola, coffee, sweets, that person probably has a lack of this hormone. Many people fall into the trap of not paying attention to the other happiness hormones and focusing only on serotonin, since mood-enhancing products contain this hormone. Serotonin surplus improves the communication of brain cells, how we feel improves, anxiety, defeatism decreases. However, antidepressants inhibit the production of dopamine, which entails sleeplessness, going hyper, and represses sexual desire.

It is better not to take these substances, and rather ameliorate these hormones, and find a balance for them, through nutrition. At the end of this writing, I enumerate in detail which foods are the ones with which we can refill and flow both hormones optimally.

Maintaining the dopamine level of our brain is vital, since, as I mentioned, our motivation, mental energy and general mood all depend on this hormone, in the absence of which we may take up unhealthy, destructive replacement actions such as swearing constantly, abusing alcohol, drugs and other destructive behaviours. Dopamine is responsible for creating pleasure. In its absence, we cannot experience this sensation either in sexuality, or in other areas.

And now, let us look at some stories in connection with dopamine deficiency.

Imagine a homeless person in front of you. He stinks, they are unclean. Their clothing is torn, dirty. Their hair is hanging in matts, their face is unshaven. Their mouth is full of rotting or missing teeth. Smelly breath, cloudy eyes. At times, twisted, amputated limbs. Or recall the image of an alcoholic, who is floundering in the dust, who is speaking in a disturbed way, spouting obscenities, their butt is showing, it can be seen that they have urinated in their trousers, perhaps other odours can be sensed as well.

If you managed to imagine, to recall them, then let us identify how we feel about the sight.

Now let us imagine a beautiful little girl, with dimples on her face, with long curls, in a snow-white dress. The story goes way back to the socialist times. The rain is not falling any more, but there are enormous puddles. The square is full of people because there is a state celebration. The anthem is playing, and the little girl starts treading, bouncing playfully in the mud to the rhythm of the music. People are standing stiffed, but meanwhile, they can hardly hold back their laughter seeing the little girl's self-indulgent dancing. The little girl is becoming dirtier and dirtier with every step, I could say, she is amortising herself to the rhythm, with which she is causing pains to the elite of the grandstand, who, instead of laughing, are grimacing. The little girl's mother does not dare to move because she is a teacher, she must set an example. I would like to point out that the Slovak anthem has a much more beating rhythm than the Hungarian one. I, as a proud member of the pioneer movement, was terribly ashamed, even the skin on my head was burning, because the little girl was my cousin. I experienced the scene as very embarrassing then, but by now, it has become one of my favourite family memories.

My kindergarten relative did not care what the crowd was doing, she was just happy and did not let some social protocol stand in the way of her expressing it. I had been already policed, so I did not appreciate the little girl's happiness, and I did not understand the adults, why they were smiling over the obvious insubordination?

The general human law that who stands out from the crowd, must be abhorred, had influenced me as well. When somebody is happier than me, that can be irritating at that particular moment.

Now let us recollect our feelings in connection with the homeless. What was that? Anger? Disgust? Superiority? If any one of these feelings have appeared, we stopped the production of happiness hormones, and with disgust, primarily the production of dopamine. I, when seeing such a dopamine-lacking derelict, first and foremost feel grateful that I do not have to experience that, because it is very easy to end up on this path without humane helpers, because everyone judges first, instead of helping appropriately.

When someone is unkempt, their clothing is distasteful and is in disorder, they do not care about their appearance, that indicates a total lack of self-love, that is, of dopamine. We activate this hormone when we do something for ourselves, and we can care for ourselves only when our level of dopamine is adequate.

This is a Gordian knot, if someone cannot untie it, then comes total helplessness, capitulation, the state of homelessness.

Back then, my little relative did not allow herself to be embarrassed by the sight of grumpy party officials, she ensured her own well-being, which is rather to be envied than reproved. By the way, according to the latest research, music has a good effect on dopamine production, on our physique. The scientific article discussed mainly Mozart's music, but I am convinced that everyone has her-his own motivational tune, which starts up their muscles into a state of readiness.

When someone is judging the homeless, or any other person, they stop the production of dopamine in themselves as well, whose consequence will manifest in financial loss, household devices will break down, we will lose this and that, and situations are generated in which the individual can experience total helplessness. The reaction creates the identical circumstances.

It is superfluous to push down a homeless person because they are already at the bottom, there is nowhere to go lower from there. It is not so in the case of an alcoholic, a drug addict, with an irresponsible attitude, one can cause them to go lower.

Attention, sorry is a degrading energy as well. When we pity somebody, we push them down alike, we generate the feeling that that is their place, and that they do not have a chance to rise higher. By pitying someone, we take away their hope for happiness, for welfare and prosperity.

When I see human flesh towers, people of 250 kilograms and up, I totally sympathize with them, but I do not identify with them anymore.

Certain models of physical fitness want to reach popularity by constantly making mean remarks to fat people, by speaking of them in a degrading way, certain of them even give voice to their disgust. One of the Hungarian all-muscle "women" calls fat people "visual trash". With this, her and similar people are demonstrating their own unhappiness, and I am waiting with interest what their fate will be like.

It is entirely pointless to make a mean remark to a fat person because it is precisely due to dopamine deficiency that she-he has become so, and it is exactly the reason why they do not care about what others say about them, because it has been their inability to conform to others which has got them where they are now. For them, it is eating which gives pleasure, eating is which makes them happy, when they see the lot of delicious meals and they can make them their own. Very low-level dopamine is capable of only that.

I know exactly how helpless one is when kilograms keep getting on us, when you see the contempt in other people's eyes, the constant mean remarks of doctors pushed my self-confidence lower and lower. With the malicious remarks, they stopped dopamine production, and I cared less and less about my well-being, my health. Dopamine got to such a low level for me that I did not even like food anymore. Often, I started gagging even just because of the smell of food. I could eat only when the food was cold, when it did not have a smell anymore. There were days when I was not able to eat anything but hazelnut chocolate and energy drinks. My body had become under-nourished and overweight at the same time. Little by little, my weight reached the upper limit of personal scales.

The other spectacular extreme of dopamine deficiency is anorexia and those people who are having plastic surgery continually. Would you have guessed that all three have the very same background, the under-functioning dopamine, that is, the lack of self-acceptance, self-love?

In any case, in my experience, one of the simplest ways to fire up dopamine is love. One should not think necessarily of fulfilled love, though that would be the most optimal, of course. And one does not necessarily need a particular person for that. Balanced dosing is very important, however. For things to go optimally, one must not focus only on one happiness hormone, balance must be present between all 4 hormones.

It is serotonin which gives the feeling of love. When suddenly, there is a lot of it, the body starts focusing on processing it, and it stops the production of dopamine. This state creates impossible situations, which makes us unable to act. The big flame is in vain, things do not work out, especially when in both parties, both in us and the subject of our love, the level of dopamine is low, then we misunderstand everything, we keep getting disappointed.

Our heart is overflowing with love in vain because dopamine deficiency creates an energy vacuum due to which our love will have a down-pulling effect, and they will decline all our gestures.

When the subject of our love, due to their dopamine deficiency, does not believe that they are worthy of love, then they are defeatist about the future as well, saying, it will not work out anyway. There is not enough doping.

When in someone, there is a lot of dopamine, she-he will want to connect sexually at once. Just as quickly the act happens, so soon the relationship is over. The sudden flame is in vain, and so is the possible serotonin surplus which creates the illusion of love, for a lasting relationship, shared experiences, endorphin, gentle touches, points and instances of connecting, taking care of the other person-oxytocin are needed. Dopamine ensures intense and fast sex, but it is not enough for a lasting relationship. It is true for all areas of life that the surplus of only one happiness hormone ensures momentary joy, satisfaction, but for a quarrel-free relationship based on love and appreciation, all happiness hormones must work.

So, if we fall in love, let us use the serotonin surplus, our improved feeling of well-being primarily to fix ourselves.

It does not matter what person or object is the subject of our love, our enthusiasm. In my case, it was Jenny, my dog, for whom I was able to get up at 4 a.m. and go out, walk even in -15 Celsius degrees, I had to sweep, change the sheet daily. Our meals together made me feel like cooking. I could not offer her cola or chocolate, after all. She got a bite of each piece of meat, and she liked thick vegetable pottages as well. Because of her, I started eating normally. There was someone to hug, to cuddle with. I can thank it to her that I did not get lower. Seeing my dog happy on a hiking trip where she could meet other animals, was enough dope for me to go out, and with that, I did something for myself as well. I got a lot of cutting remarks because Jenny received calcium, bone strengtheners from the get-go, so she became higher and sturdier than the average. Despite her being a kind, well-meaning dumpling of love whom everybody considered beautiful, we got mean comments daily that the dog was fat. The vet also remarked every time that the dog will not live long if she did not lose weight. We had to beat negativism every day again and again. The dog baby will be 13 these days! She is still beautiful, her age shows in that from yellow labrador, she has turned into a cream-coloured one, that there is play-fight after meals every day, and that one cannot watch the news because of the joyful yapping. The dogs of those who kept making the mean remarks, did not even live to be 10 years old.

A little excess weight in the flood of happiness ensures a better and longer life, than a healthy life-style full of ill-will. Both cases indicate dopamine deficiency, but I still choose the first one, taking on the remarks.

As I have already mentioned, it is very difficult to help people with dopamine deficiency, and I could experience this close to me as well. I was struggling for years with despair because I got different dietary supplements, the latest healing gadgets in vain, both my parents, and my sister refused to use them. It was really hurting me, I did not understand what the problem was. I cried a lot because of their not accepting my help. I felt that my attempt was in vain, nothing I did was good.

At the beginning of this writing, I enumerated the symptoms of dopamine deficiency. I sank into them severely, and the members of my family were also living the lack of it, therefore none of us believed either that we deserved the positive change, or that we were capable of changing things.

I understood that many people in my immediate circle did not pay attention to me because for that, serotonin would have been needed in them, so that they could receive what I said, and they would have needed dopamine so that they would be able to change. I realized that until I did not change, I would be inauthentic in their eyes, and I was only good for listening to their criticism, resentments about my not changing. Primarily, one needs to set an example for people with dopamine deficiency, they need to see it through their own eyes that things work in everyday routine. In every other case, their criticism, self-doubt, their negative vision of the future will sabotage every method, all advice. Without dopamine, it is impossible to incorporate new habits, to create considerable change.

Then let us see with what tools, methods we can do so.

Orally

Herbs:

Attention! As I already mentioned, the balance of serotonin and dopamine is very important! I enumerate plants which boost both hormones, I indicate those which influence only dopamine: St John's wort, gingko biloba, Bengali velvet beans-dopamine, Bacopa monnieri, Rhodiola rosea, ginseng, kava, ginger, Origanum vulgare subsp. vulgare-dopamine.

Foods: cold-water fishes, mackerel, herring, sardine, salmon, eggs, berries, blackberry, raspberry, blueberry, currant, fermented foods, yoghurt, fermented sauerkraut, walnut, bens, algae, dark chocolate, turmeric, olive oil, coconut oil, avocado, curly cale, sea vegetables

Minerals: magnesium, vitamin D, vitamin C, vitamin E, B6

In detail, you can read about them here, a very detailed writing!

https://agyserkento.hu/blog/legjobb-agyserkento-etelek

On the physical plane

Everything we do with our fingertips. We cook, we clean. This is why we play with pens, women rummage in their bag. The stimulation of fingertips starts up the production of dopamine. Starting cooking for ourselves, is the best way to re-start our dopamine.

The next method is known by everyone, but nobody has thought of using this involuntary gesture consciously. It is sighing. We breath out resistance from ourselves, if it is needed, we repeat it several times, to let go of used up energy.

When we finally finish a difficult work, we give out a sigh. This is the sign that self-rewarding, the production of dopamine has begun.

Let us tidy up our kitchen. The state of our kitchen also shows our topical dopamine level.

Let us do an exercise we do not feel like doing. Organizing documents, garden work, or some kind of bodily exercise, it does not matter what, only it must be something we have to push ourselves to do.

The following activity can be the reward itself, but it is marked suffering for those who do not like themselves. Take an herbal bath, massage yourself from head to toe thoroughly, every part of your body, then after the bath, put cream on yourself. The most pleasant way of filling up dopamine is when we take care of our physical body.

On the energetic plane

Music, music, and music, which is tramping, which makes you move, which resounds in us. And of course, the scent of delicious food, drinks. We can best stimulate dopamine with the diversity of tastes.

One of the main signs of dopamine deficiency is that the individual hardly uses spices.

Intellectually

As I have already mentioned several times, judging, swearing, criticising stop happiness hormones. Doubts, defeatism, depression are, in turn, signs that happiness hormones have not been working for a long time already. It cannot be changed from one day to the next. At least 2 years are needed for us to let go of ingrained bad habits, for which the previously enumerated are not enough, stress release is necessary.

I hope that my writing has been demonstrative enough for you, my dear Reader, Listener, to take your fate into your own hands. I wish that everybody take responsibility at last for creating everyday joys and for reaching lasting happiness.