How Substance Use Messes up the Feel Good System in Your Brain


Shout to My Male Followers!

I wanna thank all my listeners. I’ve been looking at the stats and notice that there are a lot of men listening on Spotify.

And maybe it’s because men suffer with common mental health issues like anxiety, stress, depression, but 40% of men have never spoken to anyone about their mental health.

And like 25% of men that were polled, you feel too embarrassed to speak about your problems, your anxiety, your stress with anyone, and you feel like there might be a negative stigma about just being a man and sucking it up and not sharing all that.

Things like what’s really going on with work, finances, your health.

And one of the statistics says 40% of men said that it would actually take thoughts of suicide or self harm for them to actually get professional help 😦

There might be something that’s drawing you to hypnosis.

Because of those stats that I just talked about, I want to let you know that with Accelerated Hypnosis, I don’t need to know all the story unless you wanna share that with me, of course.

But it’s not a prerequisite for me to know what you’re suffering with, exactly what it feels like for you, because It’s not a prerequisite for healing.

Why? Because your subconscious mind knows everything about you already.

If you did share and talk about your problems, it’s just the tip of the iceberg that you would actually be sharing with me. Just the tip of the iceberg of what is really going on below the surface that you might not even be consciously aware of.

So what I do In my Accelerated Hypnosis sessions is we connect you with your subconscious.

And because it knows everything, this huge iceberg of data about you, it even knows and remembers what was going on before you were born, while you were inside your mother’s womb, it was aware of everything that was going on at that subconscious level that you can’t even articulate.

It knows all the stuff you don’t even know you know, whether or not you were consciously aware of it.

And because it knows everything, like this mass of information, your feelings, your thoughts, even what you weren’t thinking and why you didn’t think those thoughts.

It knows everything about you – and that is helpful for healing.

Your subconscious ultimately, wants the highest good for you. It has a positive intention for everything that it does.

But you might be running old programs from your childhood.

It’s like having the newest PC but you’re stuck in DOS )omg remember DOS?)

It’s stuck on an old program that was created by a five year old child, and all that stress and anxiety and depression you’re feeling now is just sending you a message.

Those feelings are trying to tell you that those old programs, those patterns that you find yourself in over and over again or those things that you aren’t able to deal with from a mental health point of view..

Those programs that created all that were created when you were a child and are still running, it’s showing you that they are not working for you anymore.

And as an adult, you can use hypnosis to upgrade your operating system.

You can reprogram your subconscious mind, so that it’s in alignment to what it is that you need now as an adult.

There might be patterns that you’re seeing in your relationships, like maybe you struggle to hold a relationship, maybe you attract women that are unavailable.

Because, really, you’re attracting all types of women but you’re choosing the ones that are unavailable to you, and you’re ignoring all the women that are interested genuinely interested in you and wanna create a relationship with you.

So just notice those patterns that probably come from your childhood, some type of pattern that was familiar in your childhood and got kinda programmed in there as this is what relationships look like.

But as an adult are totally not working for you anymore, but you seem to be stuck with those patterns.

You can intentionally change those patterns You can intentionally change those programs. You can reprogram your subconscious GPS to take you on a different path.

A desired path that’ll take you ultimately to wherever it is you really wanna go, like love, marriage and commitment; feeling secure in a relationship and having a partner that you can trust.

Your Brain’s Feel Good System

Maybe you’re experiencing that anxiety, that stress, that lowness, and you’re using drugs or alcohol to manage that.

Here’s the problem with substance use.

You have this feel good system in your brain called dopamine.

Basically in your brain, that when you have a normal day, it’s like maybe a 4 or or a 5 out of 10.

And then when something really amazing happens, It’s a 10 out of 10. When you have a really good day, it’s a 10 out of 10. You know that feeling that you have when everything’s working out, when you’re in flow, and you’re just having the best day. The sun is even out.

Everything’s going well. Well, that’s a 10 out of 10 for you.

And the problem with drugs is they disrupt that rating system.

And all of a sudden, those opioids, that coke, that methamphetamines are off the chart in your scale that only goes to 10.

Drugs f#ck up that scale so now it’s out of a 100, and that’s exactly where all those drugs register for you but the problem is that now your best day is back at 10 out of a 100.

10 out of 100 probably feels a lot like depression.

So now every day, you’re feeling that stress, that anxiety, the depression.

10 / 100 probably feels like a shitty day, even though it used to be your best day.

Now life doesn’t get any better than 10 / 100.

So you get yourself into this loop where to feel good again, you have to go back to those drugs.

You turn to those drugs because your best day isn’t cutting it anymore.

Nothing else and I mean, NOTHING else cuts it.

You try to amp things up with coffee and Red Bull on the regular.

And you know you shouldn’t be doing drugs but you’re starting to feel out of control.

So now on top of all the stress and the depression and the anxiety – now you have guilt and shame.

So substance use helps you feel good in that moment.

And then your life falls apart as you detox from those drugs, feel even worse. You’re you’re down at a zero or one out of a hundred.

Because you’re dealing with all the impact of being on a coke bender or whatever it is, and you’re struggling even on your best days to feel good…

You don’t like it but you need it to feel alive, and so you’re compelled to do the drugs again just to feel normal.

Just to feel okay because your 10 / 100 best day doesn’t even register for you anymore.

You get that logically – that this used to be a pretty good day, but it doesn’t feel feel like it anymore.

And maybe there’s a lot of guilt and shame around talking about it with someone.

You want to keep these things in the shadows.

Your girlfriend definitely doesn’t know…

Gaining power and a life of their own in the shadows.

Maybe there’s a lot of guilt and shame about talking about your addiction with somebody and all the other parts that it’s affecting, like your work, your relationships, your family…

You might be struggling to find a job or to keep a job…

People at work notice how weird you act in meetings, you have all this nervous energy from all the coffee, Red Bull and vyvanse (pretending you’re ADHD or whatever stimulant) you’re taking.

You say you want, kids and a family, but you somehow manage to sabotage your relationships.

The women that you’re going out with get upset and they tell you exactly what the problem is, but you don’t have the strength to give them what it is they need in that relationship.

Maybe you don’t feel like you’re doing anything wrong, and it’s their problem.

It’s affecting your family – there’s members in your family that you don’t really see anymore. They don’t seem to show up at those same family events that you’re going to be at.

Mostly because when you’re not feeling good, when you’re only at 10 / 100 n the regular, and you’re not feeling good, nobody can feel good because you know how to get in there, get all up in their grill, be super confrontational, push their buttons, make them leave the scene.

And for a moment, it’s all about you and that feels good, but ultimately you’re alone.

With your life being somewhere, between 0 and 10 out of 100.

1 / 100 is why you feel like you’re failing.

So I get it.

You might not wanna talk about it. And so talk therapy is probably not for you.

But even though I love therapy, I always need hypnotherapy to resolve those leftover emotions that don’t make sense.

So why not just start there….

With Accelerated Hypnosis, it’s fast acting and you don’t have to talk about all that.

I don’t need to know.

Your subconscious mind knows all about that anyway, it knows more than you because it understands all the things that aren’t in your conscious awareness that are affecting you. And so it has with its positive intention for you and your life – it already has all the recovery plans, all the solutions, all the resources, all the answers.

It has all the resources, all the answers, and we just need to connect you with those resources.

If you’ve been dealing with your problems, your anxiety, your depression, you’re just not feeling good.

Maybe you’ve been dealing with all of that with drugs, and you’ve totally messed up your dopamine feel good system.

So every day, even though it’s the best day you could ever have, you feel like a zero.

Empty and meaningless.

And there’s so many feelings and so anxiety and depression feeling low is just your average day now.

It’s the best you can muster, almost every single day when you’re not using.

You can’t fix any of this with your conscious mind, especially if you’ve been using for a while,

Your your dopamine system is out of whack and you’re running at 10 out of 100.

You can usually solve your problems logically, but these aren’t the types of problems that can be solved with your conscious, logical mind.

You might even be noticing, you’ve been losing a lot of that executive function of your prefrontal cortex because of all the drugs that you’re taking.

You’re confused.

You feel helpless.

Your anxiety is through the roof so it’s hard to make really good decisions for yourself and your life.

And you keep on using substances and going back to because your brain has been rewired.

And at some level of consciousness, you are starting to realize that.

You’re feeling guilt and shame about all of this, and you’re feeling nervous about where you might end up with all of this, but you still can’t do anything because you’re compelled to do it.

All that addiction, the emotion, the shame, the guilt, the fear, the anxiety, that’s all in your subconscious and needs to be solved at that level of consciousness.

There’s something that has brought you here today to let you know that you don’t have to talk about your problem to fix it.

I don’t need to hear about any of that.

You need results and you need them quickly and you just want to connect with that part of you that has the healing for you that can resolve all that conflict and all that complex stuff tied up in your past, and now your addiction, or in your substance use (because you might not even want to believe you’re addicted, even you know you’re barely keeping your head above water).

You understand that your substance use has messed up that feel good system in your brain, and that needs to be fixed somehow.

It might take a bit of courage to take a step in the right direction.

I offer free breakthrough calls, but if you don’t wanna talk about things, just DM me and we can go straight to a session.

Without talking about the issue.

Instead you can connect with your subconscious and create a new intention for feeling good…

For having a life that you love, for having a relationship that you love, for having a job that you love, and get back to feeling good.

You can reset your dopamine scale back to 10 and reprogram your subconscious GPS to stop, heading in the direction that you are headed in right now,…

You can reprogram it to where ever it is that you actually wanna be.

And then we can get all those parts into alignment with your new plan.

So if you’ve tried everything, or maybe you’ve tried nothing…

Maybe hypnotherapy is the answer for you.

You just want it fixed. You just want it taken care of.

Without talking about the issue.

Your subconscious mind can do exactly that for you.

So I feel for you and would love to connect you with your subconscious mind, and let’s see what it has already waiting there for you which can bring that change quickly because your brain can be rewired in the most calm resourceful state.

So I wanna thank you for listening and want you to know that there’s a reason why you’re listening to this.

Maybe your subconscious mind wanted you to see this message.

Instead of going back to what’s familiar, you can take a step out and reprogram your subconscious GPS to where you really wanna go.

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