Cody Simpson

yeah yeah it's um i absolutely went through my my valley you know after the the heart you know the mountains yeah um there was this there was this doctor this uh neurologist or neuroscientist i i don't want to title him incorrectly but i met him through miley

when we were together, cause she would do these brain scans on her brain, um, that would kind of show all kinds of activity.

Um, and, uh, we, we, I met with him a couple of times into these brain scans and, and show it would show certain, um, you know, where different parts of your brain are activated at different times.

And, um,

there was sometimes an issue with frontal lobe activity and dopamine or something because of, I guess, as he would explain it, he did a lot of research on fame on the brain and he's worked with like Bieber.

He's worked with all these other guys, especially at a young age, pre your brain being fully developed, your frontal lobe being fully developed as an adult.

and having that amount of dopamine, it's like dopamine flooding as a child.

Fame is a form of dopamine flooding in a way, and going up on stage and having this amount of admiration, it's not a natural, it's not something that you're really supposed to experience, particularly as a teenager.

And so you do a lot of work on how to kind of reset that and, and kind of come back to this, a healthy baseline.

Cause it's so easy to kind of get caught in this immense, you know, immense high and immense low cycle.

especially as somebody who, as a young person, has experienced these really, really immense highs.

It's hard for your brain to then kind of re-regulate to a place in which normal life is enough.

Yes.

And I think that's something that a lot of people who have experienced that kind of fame young have struggled with.

And that's why you see a lot of people go and fall into addiction and substance abuse and stuff, just to try and maintain what they felt.

That dopamine hit.

Yeah, like what you felt out on stage doing that thing to then come back and normal life is not enough.

No.

This is going to sound crazy, but I moved out around 16, 17.

I bought my own place.