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Originally Posted by SalingerEsme
I am drawn to this post, and the kind of thinking that takes a step back. I am inexplicably addicted to therapy too, and it eclipses my real life relationships in impact and preoccupying force. Besides Oxytocin in relationships, I wonder about dopamine in addiction. One particular part of the brain habituates its dopamine release to a stimulus, and correspondingly reduces dopamine in response to normal/ common things. For some reason, my T is more influential on my brain than anyone else, and I do feel some kind of neurobiology must be involved. I am very interested in your thoughts and quest.
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I am not a biochemist, but I do work in the pharmaceutical industry and am familiar with some of the research on brain chemicals and mood disorders. I suspect there's a "cascade" effect going on.
From what I've read as well, trauma changes the brain, and I wonder if folks with trauma or even "attachment" issues are more affected by this...maybe because the experience of being biochemically soothed is not something they experienced in the past.