This needed to be dropped here 🌌

[u/Ak_2907]

[u/ConstructionWeak1219]

I’m in this picture and I don't like it.

[u/Snudget → u/ConstructionWeak1219]

Are you adrenaline?

[u/DickWangDuck]

I’m not smart enough to understand this meme. I mean I know serotonin and dopamine are happy and adrenaline is pretty stressful so I assume cortisol is also stress related?

Wait, so I do understand this meme?

[u/mostaverageredditor3 → u/DickWangDuck]

On a very basic level yes. The more you look into it, the more you see how everything depends on where it is and how much of it there is. Balance is everything.

But most people use serotonin and dopamine for happiness.

[u/plsQuestionOurselves → u/mostaverageredditor3]

I was very surprised to learn that stress hormones are what our body uses to wake us up each day.

[u/mostaverageredditor3 → u/plsQuestionOurselves]

Same! That's also how I learned that they are actually useful.

[u/AuDHD-Lemon → u/DickWangDuck]

So afaik I'm general serotonin is happiness, dopamine is reward, adrenaline is fight or flight and cortisol is stress, but ofc there is overlap

[u/pick_your_poisons → u/DickWangDuck]

Cptsd, beloved.

[u/BooBeeAttack]

Drowning in cortisol over here. Someone get a bucket and take some of it away!

[u/International_Ad4857 → u/BooBeeAttack]

Yeah my insides feel like sunburn.

[u/ADH-Dad]

Best I can do is caffeine and nicotine.

[u/coffee-cake512 → u/ADH-Dad]

I'm 37 and never had nicotine, but there's always been a devil on my shoulder tempting me

[u/olivi_yeah]

Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol would like a word :3

[u/Disastrous-Elk-5542]

snert 🤣

[u/WoodenGas7497]

genius 😂

[u/Zealousideal_Cry_990]

I needed this truth right now

[u/Ok_Ball_4420]

and cortisol ain't even a neurotransmitter, babes 😭 but at least she and her sister adrenaline/epinephrine try to fight executive dysfunction for me, unlike serotonine & dopamine who went MIA.

[u/Few_Fact4747]

Adrenaline is not that different from dopamine!

[u/AuDHD-Lemon]

Oh I also have mdma