Intersting Article I found on the internet... any thoughts???
Slave to Our Chemicals
We have dopamine, serotonin, norepinephrine. These are some of the most important, at least ones that medical science has deemed as such, neurotransmitters in the brain. Then we have hormones that tell us when we are full from eating, hunger cravings, control of the metabolism, immune system activation and suppression, and so on.
Think about all of these chemical floating around in your body at any moment. Your body controlling the levels of these chemicals without our minds consciously knowing about it. Some people are born with a complete balance of the positive feedback system in the human mind. They have a good metabolism that keeps their weight in check, they don't have large mood swings, and they know when to quit eating.
For those of us who have these systems out of whack, we spend our entire lives fighting these chemicals, or the lack thereof. We understand that our actions are not the norm and we deeply desire to not be odd. We use discipline and self evaluation to try to overcome these hormones. Those of us with a scientific minds and those of us with desire to understand these chemicals and how they affect us go beyond what a normally regulated person considers. Unfortunately many times this leads to gravitating toward substances that change the way those chemicals behave in the body.
Some people think that this is ridiculous. Some people just think these people want attention, are just druggies, or have weak minds. The truth of the matter is, we are slaves to our chemicals. The only reason a person gets out of the bed in the morning, eats, and seeks out interesting things is because the person is gravitating toward things that change the way the chemicals behave in the body; we all want more dopamine.
Through evolution, our brain is designed to handle so much dopamine. The interesting thing is that people have figured out how to defeat this reward system, such as in MDMA, in order to overload the brain with this chemical. So much so that it can be damaging to our brains, which have been designed handle so much of the neurotransmitter.
In a normally regulated person, this is not desirable; however when a person fights their chemicals their entire life, they become more aware of these entities. They understand how they affect our mental state and understand that introducing more or less of these chemicals can be controlled to produce different mind sets.
Is the sad thing here that we are all slaves to our chemicals, or is it that we are conscious of these chemicals and how they control us?
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So does this mean love is just a chemical reaction were addcited to? or is it something more???
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