Betsy GuerraBilingual Keynote Speaker, Psychotherapist/Coach, Author, Leadership Training and Life Coach Certification

What Dopamine Really Is #spiritualgrowth #mentalhealthawareness #betsyguerra

29 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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Short spoken monologue arguing that dopamine is not simply a ‘pleasure’ chemical but a signal of anticipated possibility; the speaker connects this idea to social media scrolling and says addiction is to possibility (the ‘maybe’), not the content itself.

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Dopamine is not a chemical of pleasure is a chemical of. Of. Maybe it's not the one that says like, oh, this feels so good. It says, oh, maybe I'll get a good news when I read that email. Maybe I'll have a like or a comment or a message when I open social media. Maybe I'll feel better. I'll be able to numb these emotions. Maybe, maybe, maybe. When we're addicted to scrolling to content, we're not really addicted to content, we're addicted to possibilities.