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Date of upload: Nov 6, 2008 ^^
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Short term stress actually increases serotonin, but after time you get burn-out. Then you need to INCREASE serotonin. As in my life. It's non stop stress, as for my autistic son as well. Then again, dopamine is also very important. TOo much dopmaine is schizo, too little is parkinson, right? So where do we find the balance?
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It seems that based on the video serotonin acts as some sort of mood regulator. I think those with low serotonin are more prone to mood swings and aggression, which makes sense since you would need to be more aggressive if your status was low. But the curious thing is how raising serotonin would increase status. Maybe this is because high serotonin allows for more social bonding and cooperation, which in turn would increase status.
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It also reduce your empathy and make you feel flat, selfish and passionless. No thank you, I don’t want to be an alpha detached robot.
SSRIs made me become conservative. One week after stopping them, I returned to my moderate progressive values because I was able to put myself in others’ shoes. Humans are emotional beings and we have to be emotionally invested in something to pursue it. On the other hand, SSRIs made me feel grateful and capable of see all the positive things around me. Not always a good thing because you need a little bit of dissatisfaction to improve your life and call people out when they wrong you so they alter their behavior. That is how we can evolve as a society. I’m happy to have them as a tool tho but only for temporary usage and when it’s so necessary. All range of human feelings have to be respected. They all can can have great impacts on your growth if we know how to channel them. Even fear and sadness. Using antidepressant made me appreciate my feelings so much and let them take their courses without obsessing about being happy all the time. I celebrated my first time I was able to cry after quitting antidepressant because I missed that therapeutic cry so much. I now know what toxic positivity means. Yes, we have the right to pursue happiness but we shouldn’t expect ourselves to be happy or grateful all the time. We’re not hardwared for that and it’s not good for us. I now see anxiety for what it intended for, our brain’s way of protecting us and preventing us from repeating previous mistakes. No wonder a lot of mass shooters were on SSRIs!
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1:20 The alpha male has the highest serotonin
1:25 The guy at the very bottom has the lowest
1:37 Turns out the alpha male rarely fights
1:45 He uses social interactions to preserve his position
2:26 After a couple of weeks of increased serotonin, low level monkeys have their status go up
2:36 The other males don't notice, but the females notice it
2:42 The females immediately pick up, "there's something different about this guy"
2:50 The females start paying more attention to him and then the rest of the males follow
2:55 He then becomes the alpha male
3:00 The drug given to the monkey (to make him alpha) was Prozac
3:22 Scientists changed the social behavior of the monkey by changing its balance of serotonin
3:36 Low serotonin monkeys take risks
3:52 Low serotonin monkeys get into trouble
4:28 Low serotonin monkeys try to fight bigger monkeys but get beat up
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@belliotrungy9107
4 years ago
Look at all these neuropharmacologists in the comments section
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