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These days with all of the distractions notification sounds bring, as well as streaming sites and social media, the world as a whole can feel overwhelming. This overwhelming feeling explains why the phrase “dopamine detox” has gained a foothold in both productivity and wellness circles. The idea has practical outcomes where the elimination of stimulating activities can allow for a reset of the reward system, decreased distractions, and regained focus.
While some tend to simplify dopamine to the “pleasure chemical”, It is a neurotransmitter that assists in controlling motivation, movement, learning, and reward-seeking behavior, and thus still complex. Dopamine plays a crucial role in reward systems, which is noticeable when one engages with their favorite food, or a certain goal, or as one simply anticipates getting a reward. The shift in behavior in all these cases tells a lot about the slips of dopamine and what fundamental roles it plays in encouraging positive behavior as well as survival-inducing behavior.
The presence of motivation lack or the absence of it in this case is what has the tendency to keeps one still lying in bed without any reason to get up, go eat or achieve any goals they have. Within reason of course.
The term ‘dopamine detox’ was first used in some circles within Silicon Valley. The activity typically involves refraining from any sort of stimulating activity. Such activities might include social media, junk food, with-drawing from conversation, and even video games for some few hours to about a week. The premise is to counter stimulation to allow the brain to “reset.”
Practitioners of dopamine detox often report feeling calmer, more in control and more focused after practicing the ‘detox.’
You can’t ‘detox’ dopamine. It is a neurotransmitter and a chemical your brain uses and your body regulates dopamine perpetually. When you ‘unplug’ what you are really doing is behavioral reset.
It is impossible to detox something that is not a poison. Your body controls how much dopamine you have.
To the best of our knowledge, motivation, memory, and motor even motor activities rely on dopamine. Lack of dopamine is associated with depression and Parkinson’s disease.
While uninterrupted breaks help sharpen one’s concentration span and help in the cultivation of positive habits, permanent changes take persistent routine adjustments, for example, incorporating tech mindfulness, physical activities, and sleep into daily routine.
Users can plan for phone-free activities e.g., during the first hour of the day, for the duration of goal- unachievable deadlines, during faultless time blocking, etc.
With the sole purpose of reducing the likelihood of dopamine hits, focus on one task at a time.
Short walks improve focus and mood.
Productive pauses: purposeful periods for the sake of active rest (e.g., listening to one’s breath, journaling, staring at a wall, etc.) when the brain is given the permission to rest.
While “dopamine detox” is an oversimplification of a more complex issue, it serves more as a poetic term. If one pauses to think about the endless possibilities of postponing immediate pleasure, it may be more rewarding in other aspects of life – real world. In an age of overstimulation, the challenge is not in the defeat of dopamine, but in the intelligent harnessing of it.
