Comments by "Piccalilli Pit" (@piccalillipit9211) on "Harvard psychiatrist says this is the secret to happiness" video.

"I watched it at 2x speed" this is actually very bad for you as it is feeding the dopamine pathway in your brain - this downregulated the dopamine receptors and creates a negative feedback loop which you will get diagnosed as ADHD but is in fact self stimming behaviour.
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@alittax You can no longer post external links on YouTube comments - but Dr Huberman has a youtube channel and he is one of the leading voices in this area of research and HE might link to the studies in his videos and notes - hang on Ill find his channel for you. Here is his video on dopamine - https://youtu.be/QmOF0crdyRU YES he links to the studies in the notes to this video. I'm an author on psychology with an interest in ADHD - I have / had ADHD and I believe it is largely self-induced and can be managed in most people with behavioural modification. I.e. don't do dopamine-seeking behaviours like watching videos at 2X speed. We create rationales why we do these things, but actually, we want the dopamine.
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@alittax - the honest answer is - you cant. But I used to stay up really late working and I had this entire rationale worked out that I was a night person and I even had an anthropological evolutionary explanation as to why there were morning people and night people. Turns out I was a night person cos I was stimming my brain with dopamine at 2am and not getting up until 11.00am I stopped doing it and now I get up before the sunrise every morning and walk my dog as the sun comes over the hills... Our brains are amazing at lying to us about why we do things. There is a LOT of evidence that we don't MAKE decisions, we act on instinct and then retrospectively justify the action. FMRI scans show that we have made decisions dn chosen A B or C in a situation before we even engaged the thinking parts of the brain. then when questioned we have REALLY good reasoning why we made the decision. Our brains lie to us all the time - have a look for "do we really have free will" and stuff like that. Its stuff like this that makes this field SO fascinating to me.
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@mermaid7775 1) " this is actually very bad for you as it is feeding the dopamine pathway in your brain" does not matter your "reason" for doing it - it IS feeding your dopamine pathways 2) Quote: "this is not ADHD" - My Quote " this downregulated the dopamine receptors and creates a negative feedback loop which you will get diagnosed as ADHD but is in fact self stimming behaviour." - Future tense 3) Quote: "literally everything you said" My Quote "We create rationales why we do these things, but actually, we want the dopamine"- congratulations on your well-constructed rationale for why you do this, you are correct - its not in any way dopamine seeking behaviour. 4 - Final thing Quote "Also, some videos take more time than necessary to get to a point " its WAY faster to skip to a future point in the video than it is to select options, select speed, select 2 X, click off options and watch till the person gets to the point - why not just do what 80% of people do and click further along in the video? But you are right its not dopamine-seeking behaviour you have created a rationale for...
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