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Dopamine Exhaustion

  Bored, unmotivated and exhausted would be the 3 magical words to describe how I've been feeling for the past few months. Things such as eating a bar of chocolate, watching a movie or playing a round of call of duty did not seem to bring me the joy it once did. I would wake up, tired, move through the day, tired and at the end of the day, I would throw myself onto the bed, tired. Turns out, the reasoning to the above lies in an old malayalam banana talk which goes, “ അധികമായാൽ അമൃതും വിഷമാണ്” which roughly translates to “ even nectar which is most divine, when taken in excess, is poison". And that is exactly what I've been doing, I've not been having one bar of chocolate but 10, I've not been playing one round of call of duty but until I could finally get back at the 9 year old on the other side and I've not been watching  one movie but binging 2 whole shows with 10 episodes of 50 minutes each. And the culprit causing all of this? Dopamine. Dopamine is the...