Comment on If your happiness is derived from your enjoyment of a false (i.e. fictional) stories, is that truely happiness, or is that technically a delusion?

• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Well yes, that’s why people do drugs.

  Usually doing it forever runs up against other problems like paying for it, holding down a job or health problems

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• ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  drugs only make you feel happy when you first start, eventually you use them to not feel bad
  also when you have a heart attack and almost die and are crippled for life: that’s sad

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• psycho_driver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Why else would people use drugs? The problem is that the side effects from drugs tend to increase unhappiness when you’re not on them.

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• lol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Why are you not shooting up heroin right now?

    You make a good point. I now know what I’m doing today!

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• Philote@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yes, all happiness is a release of chemicals in our brain. Dopamine from memes, oxytocin from petting a dog or a good hug, tryptophan from a good meal, endorphins from an intense workout, all are not much different from heroine and are addictive, just not as intense and without extreme physical side effects.

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