Dr. Alok Kanojia

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14,159 appearances 23 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 4d ago

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HealthyGamerGG · Why Normal Life Feels So Boring · 12 Sep 2026 podcast

But if you have an addictive personality, there's a good chance that the simple things in life don't actually give you a lot of pleasure. voice-verified

And the reason that you have a quote unquote addictive personality is because you have to go hard into something. voice-verified

Or if you find that one thing at the moment that really triggers your dopaminergic circuitry, it makes everything else in your life pale in comparison, right? voice-verified

Oh my God, I found this thing and like, let's go. voice-verified

Okay. voice-verified

And if we track this further to a neuroscience level, what we find is that there's basically for people who have addictive personalities, there's basically an imbalance in certain parts of their brain. voice-verified

So the ventral tegmental area in the amygdala give us two basic drives, right? voice-verified

VTA is where our dopamine comes from, dopamine pleasure circuitry. voice-verified

So this is where our drive towards pleasurable things comes from. voice-verified

And our amygdala is our fear and survival center of the brain. voice-verified

So this is where our avoidance drive comes from. voice-verified

And then we have our frontal lobes, which are sort of the master circuit and where our willpower comes from. voice-verified

And if we take someone who doesn't have an addictive personality, there is a balance between their negative impulses, their positive impulses and their willpower. voice-verified

Whereas if you have an addictive personality, your willpower is outgunned by your negative impulses or your impulses to run away from negative things, as well as your impulses to move towards positive things. voice-verified

And so now we're faced with a problem because this is kind of like your brain and your personality. voice-verified

So how do we tackle this? voice-verified

And this is what I love about doing addiction psychiatry work is that there are evidence-based protocols for various addictions. voice-verified

But if we tunnel down into this basic issue of like an imbalance between pleasure, pain, and willpower, how do we solve that? voice-verified

And that's why we have to get to the fundamentals. voice-verified

Hey y'all, if y'all wanna learn a little bit more, by all means, watch another YouTube video. voice-verified

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