A Recovery Journey: Achieving Neutral

Bobbyshep
5 min readJan 8, 2022

The path to pleasure in recovery may come through a state of neutral.

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In my recovery journey, I continue to work on understanding my addictive patterns and personality. One topic that I continue to explore is understanding the role of dopamine in addiction. For the sake of this article, I am going to simplify the dopamine spike that you achieve from your drug of choice with ‘pleasure’. When you use…

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