psychochemist

Chapter 284 Pleasure Dependence
A certain philosopher said: Friends are like clothes, they will wear out and need to be renewed from time to time.I take the opposite view: friends are those few old clothes that you don't want to get rid of.Of course you might as well wear new clothes, but whether you can become friends or not can't be judged until you wear old ones.

Shi Yi came to snatch the phone from Yu Fan's hand with embarrassment.But the more this happened, the more Yu Fan didn't want to give it to him, and started to dodge in the room.

Yu Fan: "Brother Bad, after all these years, your style still hasn't changed."

Shi Yi snatched the phone and said cursingly: "Stop talking nonsense, or you will take off your clothes and return them to me."

Yu Fan smiled helplessly, shook his head, and said, "Brother Bad, you'd better watch less of these bad software in the future."

Shi Yi argued: "Who watched it? I didn't watch it, I didn't watch it, I just downloaded it and put it there. Besides, man, it's normal to install some special leisure software in your phone."

Yu Fan: "Brother, you don't need to defend yourself. I just checked the daily power consumption of your mobile phone. 73% of your power is spent on watching live broadcasts, and 20% is spent on games. You have used your mobile phone for an average of 15 hours a day in the past week! Even if you don’t tell me, your recent living conditions have been clearly exposed by your mobile phone.”

Shi Yi was ashamed, and continued to defend: "Damn, you boy, I haven't seen you for many years, and you're going to expose me when you come here? I also took a vacation and came back like this. Besides, it's because I can't sleep. That's why I played with my mobile phone for so long."

Yu Fan was overjoyed, and said, "Bad brother, it's not because you have insomnia that you play with your phone, but because you play with your phone, that's why you have insomnia!"

Brother Lan had a question mark on his face, and said, "Watt? (WHAT, Brother Lan's dialect English)"

Yu Fan: "Your phenomenon is called 'pleasure dependence' in psychology."

Shi Yi: "Pleasure dependent?"

Yu Fan: "Yes, everything is caused by dopamine. Dopamine is an important neurotransmitter that plays an important role in the production of euphoria. Many drugs directly or indirectly act on dopamine in the human brain. system, allowing us to generate more euphoria, which induces addictive behavior."

Shi Yi: "You mean that I was addicted to watching live broadcasts, so I produced too much dopamine, which then affected my sleep?"

Yu Fan: "What you said is not accurate, but it can be understood in this way."

Shi Yi: "Then how do we quit this addiction? If everyone knows that there is an 'addiction', but 'addiction' is too difficult to quit, just throw away the phone?"

Yu Fan smiled: "If you have never studied psychology, you will definitely tell you to throw away your mobile phone and stay away from temptation. But after you study psychology, you will find that the root of the problem is not here."

Shi Yi was very surprised by what Fan said. He used to hear that people quitting addiction means staying away from temptation. If you have a drug addiction, you should stay away from drugs. If you have a smoking addiction, you should stay away from cigarettes.But Yu Fan said that this is not the fundamental way to quit "addiction".What is the real solution?Shi Yi listened carefully with his eyes wide open.

Yu Fan patiently said: "In the early 20s, the academic circle designed a series of animal experiments for addiction. There is a classic experiment designed like this: put two bottles of pure water in a cage, one of them Bottles of heroin or cocaine are mixed. Then, a mouse is put in a cage. After a period of experimentation, a considerable proportion of the mice will gradually become dependent on the water containing the addictive drug, and the demand for doses will increase, and even they will die. ...And in the 70s, Bruce Alexander, a professor of psychology, redesigned the experiment: the rats were no longer kept in cramped cages all day long, with nothing to do but take drugs. Instead, they were placed in a In the well-designed luxury mouse amusement park, where there are toys and friends, you can have a complete and healthy "rat life". After placing two bottles of water, in this experiment, the rats were addicted and drug-abusing. There has been a huge improvement. This has to make us start to rethink the truth of addiction: 'drugs' don't seem to be the key to addiction!"

Shi Yi: "What is that?"

Yu Fan said firmly, "It's a cage!"

Yu Fan paused and continued: "During the Vietnam War, 20% of the soldiers used heroin in large doses, which even caused social panic in the United States. However, follow-up research found that there is no need for drug rehabilitation and After treatment, 95% of the soldiers stopped their drug use automatically after returning to their families. These phenomena all point to the fact that pure physical stimulation cannot cause inextricable and severe addiction. See Drug Abuse It seems more like a result than a cause. Behind the addictive behavior is often a messy life. Human beings are emotional animals who need connection with other people, high-quality intimacy, and spirituality. Pillars require trust, a sense of value, and a sense of accomplishment."

Yu Fan looked at Shi Yi seriously, and said: "However, if there are only trauma, alienation, and frustration in the real world, then we are likely to turn to other sustenance: drug abuse, mobile phone addiction, Gambling, gaming, or whatever. If your cell phone abuse is getting worse, it's probably not the cell phone that's the problem, it's our neglected, desolate reality of life. Bad man, I'm right no?"

Brother Lan was silent, didn't speak for a long time, and silently lit a cigarette, now Shi Yi no longer smokes Lan cigarettes, all he smokes is Zhonghua.Shi Yi took a deep puff of the cigarette, then let it out again, and said, "My job is meaningless. The leader is a stickler. He knows how to play football all day long, and his colleagues are all bastards. In our unit, there is no improvement. It’s boring. I’m in CQ City alone, and I’m not a local, so I don’t have anything to do. So after work, I can only play with my mobile phone.”

Yu Fan advised Shi Yi: "Bad brother, in fact, your problem is very easy to treat. You just need to get out of the room and have more social contact with the real society. Your mobile phone addiction will be gone, and your insomnia will naturally be cured. .just get out there and connect with the outside world!"

Shi Yi was silent again, and took a deep breath.Yu Fan didn't say any more, although he hoped that his suggestions would be more helpful, but preaching is the most taboo between friends, so he can't say any more.

Yu Fan remembered that right now, there are actually more important things, how to explain to his family that he changed his clothes when he got home.

Just as he was thinking about it, the phone rang, and it was from Chen Xingyang. Yu Fan picked it up, and was about to complain about why Chen Xingyang answered the phone so slowly, but unexpectedly, Chen Xingyang spoke first, and said in a flustered tone:
"Old Yu, something happened to Guo Na!"

　What men say is three points, leaving seven points to conquer the world——Nicotine
　　
　
(End of this chapter)