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Hey guys, I love this forum and you guys have helped me with a lot of things. I kinda wanted to give back on something that I have discovered that was really troubling me. I feel like majority of people here are at good points in their lives but if it can help one person that had the same problem as me, then I'm happy. Every winter I enter this state as what I refer to as a slump, I have no energy, motivation, almost like a depression. But I had no reason to be depressed. I was actually really happy at where I was in life and pickup. Then everything came to a halt for no reason.
I realized that this had nothing to do with what was happening in life, but the chemistry of my body changed. This started after I started smoking weed freshman year. I usually thought that this was just S.A.D. which is basically where you get depressed in the winter because of insufficient sunlight and decreased movement. This was part of it but here was a much bigger problem. There was something that happened at the core of my problems. Before I smoked weed, I had no idea what depression was. I was full of energy and happy all the time. I actually was very popular and had a girlfriend. After smoking weed daily for a year, I basically had to relearn everything and I had a bunch of nagging problems. I learned that weed basically messes with your dopamine receptors and screws with your brain chemistry. It also decreases hormonal regulation which explains why I started breaking out.
This all made sense because weed overloads your system with dopamine and you body naturally copes with this by making less dopamine. Low dopamine means low energy and motivation. This also explains why I have less energy in the winter, I excercise less. If you mess with the neurotransmitter balance of the happiest person in the world and make him have low dopamine, he no longer will be happy. I found out that depression has to do with low serotonin. You might think that your problems are just who you are, but I realized it's all scientific. I highly recommend all you guys to go check out this article that explains about neurotransmitters, how it has to do with how you feel and perform, and how to treat it. There's many more that I recommend to research by yourself by searching "rebalancing neurotransmitters" but feel like this covers it all. I also highly recommend check out the mood cure. Just search mood cure PDF on google. I have checked out chase's article on depression and I recommend anyone dealing with depression to check it out, but it worked temporarily. When your brain and body chemistry is messed up, willpower and ideas help temporarily. Rebalancing your brain/body chemistry, repairing your dopamine receptors, and increasing your serotonin level gets to the root of the problem and fixes it permanently. This is why excercise and sleep is so important for a happy life since it helps us cope with stress by raising our dopamine/ serotonin levels. Which are two of the most important things for feeling "good." We all want to feel good all the time, but few people actually achieve it. Meditation, sex, money, food, excercise, girls, etc. all help but it can be done scientifically by getting to the root of the cause, which is rebalancing neurotransmitters in your body will let us feel good for eternity.
Article: http://www.medicalinsider.com/adrenal.html
Book: mood cure PDF
Bonus articles about nutrition and how it correlates with helping nuerotransmitters: http://learn.fi.edu/learn/brain/proteins.html
I realized that this had nothing to do with what was happening in life, but the chemistry of my body changed. This started after I started smoking weed freshman year. I usually thought that this was just S.A.D. which is basically where you get depressed in the winter because of insufficient sunlight and decreased movement. This was part of it but here was a much bigger problem. There was something that happened at the core of my problems. Before I smoked weed, I had no idea what depression was. I was full of energy and happy all the time. I actually was very popular and had a girlfriend. After smoking weed daily for a year, I basically had to relearn everything and I had a bunch of nagging problems. I learned that weed basically messes with your dopamine receptors and screws with your brain chemistry. It also decreases hormonal regulation which explains why I started breaking out.
This all made sense because weed overloads your system with dopamine and you body naturally copes with this by making less dopamine. Low dopamine means low energy and motivation. This also explains why I have less energy in the winter, I excercise less. If you mess with the neurotransmitter balance of the happiest person in the world and make him have low dopamine, he no longer will be happy. I found out that depression has to do with low serotonin. You might think that your problems are just who you are, but I realized it's all scientific. I highly recommend all you guys to go check out this article that explains about neurotransmitters, how it has to do with how you feel and perform, and how to treat it. There's many more that I recommend to research by yourself by searching "rebalancing neurotransmitters" but feel like this covers it all. I also highly recommend check out the mood cure. Just search mood cure PDF on google. I have checked out chase's article on depression and I recommend anyone dealing with depression to check it out, but it worked temporarily. When your brain and body chemistry is messed up, willpower and ideas help temporarily. Rebalancing your brain/body chemistry, repairing your dopamine receptors, and increasing your serotonin level gets to the root of the problem and fixes it permanently. This is why excercise and sleep is so important for a happy life since it helps us cope with stress by raising our dopamine/ serotonin levels. Which are two of the most important things for feeling "good." We all want to feel good all the time, but few people actually achieve it. Meditation, sex, money, food, excercise, girls, etc. all help but it can be done scientifically by getting to the root of the cause, which is rebalancing neurotransmitters in your body will let us feel good for eternity.
Article: http://www.medicalinsider.com/adrenal.html
Book: mood cure PDF
Bonus articles about nutrition and how it correlates with helping nuerotransmitters: http://learn.fi.edu/learn/brain/proteins.html
