Because I play a game called Tibia. It's an awsome game, but it is addicting. I want to know how the brain gets addicted to something. Do you understand my question?
2007-01-13 09:46:01 · 10 answers · asked by Steph 1 in Games & Recreation ➔ Video & Online Games
I believe so... I think that some things, such as games, can become addicting though repetition. They become a habit, like a soap opera or something. When they are finished you feel a void at the times when you once played, or watched them. But, other things like certain drugs, actually alter the chemicals in your body so that you feel that you can't live without them.
2007-01-13 09:50:00 · answer #1 · answered by SchrodingersTigress 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
When doing an activity you enjoy you release dopamine which creates the sensation of pleasure. Your body likes this feeling and subconsciously craves it. So you want to keep doing the activity over and over to release more dopamine. At a certain point your brain gets used to the level of dopamine and it doesn't have the same effect that it used to so you crave it more and more but in larger quantities so that you can get the pleasure feeling again.
2007-01-13 09:50:56 · answer #2 · answered by Zikro 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That's not really an addiction. Anything that makes your brain release dopamine, makes you happy and is addictive. Try smoking for a few years. Do cocaine a few times. Those are addictions...
2007-01-13 09:51:01 · answer #3 · answered by Steve-o 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
yes I understand your question. When you find yourself interested in something or someone and feel that you need to repeatedly do something over and over then you have become compulsively addicted to it.
2007-01-13 09:53:07 · answer #4 · answered by glamour04111 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Easy the brain has certain likes for Expl. you like timpia...whatever game that is lets say it has romance action power lvling and all that and you like every last bit of the game that means all thos likes in your brain is in that game soo your brain thinks my god this is perfect!!!!!
2007-01-13 09:51:36 · answer #5 · answered by tannermann2001 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You have receptors for dopamine in your brain which make you feel pleasure when they are activated. Just like taking drugs.
2007-01-13 09:49:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
anything can get addictive. If you do something repeatdly and still get satisfaction from it, you can get addicted to it, if your satisfaction gets lower and lower everytime you use it its either you try to do more of it to get the same satisfaction or you move on to something else.
2007-01-13 09:50:05 · answer #7 · answered by Mark F 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
when u find something that really interest you at first glance
2007-01-13 09:48:51 · answer #8 · answered by Nocturne 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
yes i understand your question
2007-01-13 09:48:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
try something, like it, stick with it. simple as that.
2007-01-13 09:48:49 · answer #10 · answered by kute_regina_gal 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋