The psychiatrist Marian Rojas Estepé affirms that the only two things that really make us happy, or that they bring us closer to the concept of happiness have to do with two concepts: the amor–Wade be a couple, family or friends – and the jobregardless of the profession because “there is no small job if they are done with dignity.”
But,What is happiness? The psychiatrist states that “happiness is the ability I have to connect with how good it has every day and the ability I have to manage the bad.” Marian Rojas He affirms that many people get something good, but they do not enjoy it because they are in a constant alert state that prevents them from doing so and when something bad arrives, it sinks. The expert adds: «Happiness is something that is experienced when there is A certain balance Among the expectations that I have in life and what is achieved. Sometimes you have to have realistic expectations, but it is that good balance between what I want to achieve and what I achieve, in short, happiness depends on the meaning that each of us gives our lives.
Constancy and frustration
However, the expert explains that neither work nor love are based on instant gratification, “they require constancy, but we are creating a society with a null Tolerance to frustration. What does not happen in the long term is that these children are frustrated very easily and have feelings of vacuum, among other causes, because their brain only lives with click, dopamine sparks ».
What about social networks
Rojas Estepé explains this concept in the book Remember your mind, reconquest your lifein which he ensures that the networks were designed to be addictive. A group of scientists from Stanford University studied what was the way to modify our brain reward system through the content of the screens.
Los likesthe algorithms and the scrolls infinite generate Dopamine release. «Dopamine, generates pleasure, motivates you, makes you want to repeat everything you like and what causes you pleasure. The screens are designed to hook because they relieve, excite and generate pleasure “and adds:” The brain remembers everything that calms it, excites and generates pleasure, therefore, your brain associates emotions with the screen: ‘I am sad and I get into this application. I am distressed and I get into this one. I feel alone and I get in this’ therefore, that released dopamine makes stores to repeat that compulsive consumption, ”says Marian Rojas.
There are some algorithms That they know more about you, even than yourself. The doctor explains that «they are suggesting information related to your tastes, to your interests, with that content that you have seen throughout recent times. Therefore, there will always be something you like »and this leads to the third point.
Las social networks They reinforce the reward system. «This means that part of that dopamine, part of the reward system, is that there will always be something. If a content does not like, in thousandths of second you will have something that you probably like more ».
He content is constant. As there is not a second between one video and another or between one image and another, the prefrontal cortex does not have the time to say ‘come on, so that you have been hooked on this application’, but is designed for a scroll Infinite keep you attached to that application throughout the time.
In conclusion, the psychiatrist states that “social networks are designed to block your ability to pay attention, decide and manage your own life” and add: “Networks slow the constancy, perseverance and make you less tolerant to frustration, pain and suffering, because every time there is pain, discomfort or suffering your brain tells you: that you will feel relieved, ”concludes Rojas.
