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why does alcohol cause social disinhibition (even in sociophobics)?

Anonymous Fri 18 Oct 11:26:20 2019 No.11069919 View Reply Original Report

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why does alcohol cause social disinhibition (even in sociophobics)? What neurotransmitters are involved in the phobic disorder and how does alcohol block them? Inhibiting glutamate production?

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Anonymous Fri 18 Oct 2019 11:57:53 No.11069964 Report

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Have you tried mdma?

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Anonymous Fri 18 Oct 2019 12:31:25 No.11070018 Report

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>>11069964
can you tell me how it works?

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Anonymous Fri 18 Oct 2019 12:48:20 No.11070050 Report

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>>11069919
Alcohol augments the secretion of dopamine (feel good sensation) and GABA while reducing glutamate the which shuts down the amygdala (reduce fears or at least impede the evaluation of danger).

XSN is shit, buy NIM anon.

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Anonymous Fri 18 Oct 2019 12:51:27 No.11070056 Report

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My naive speculation is that inhibiting overactive networks that usually send "bad signals" in certain stressful situations, allows one to more effectively chill.

I think of it like this, social anxiety makes sense biologically, especially around strangers. Those networks that are promoting anxiety might be annoying but they probably saved a fair number of your ancestors 250,000 years ago or so. They are still there kicking it so you're out at a crowded bar with 100 wild animals and you do a quick subconscious risk reward table about the chances of being maimed at the bar versus having a fun time, so you collectively join in the inhibition, sacrificing some alertness

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Anonymous Fri 18 Oct 2019 12:56:16 No.11070073 Report

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>>11070050
How the fuck can I shut down or reduce my amygdala permanently?

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Anonymous Fri 18 Oct 2019 12:57:19 No.11070077 Report

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>>11070073
Vipassana, breathwork, postural alignment

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Anonymous Fri 18 Oct 2019 13:36:20 No.11070155 Report

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>>11070073
This is as retarded as shutting down your ability to feel pain. We have this shit for a reason: Self-preservation.

The right question to ask is: How can you calibrate your sense of fear to be more rational, so that you fear actually dangerous things, but not things that are not dangerous?
The answer is that you must put yourself in scary situations. Gradually your subconscious will learn that they are harmless. Btw if you run away from the situation, you will teach your subconscious that it was dangerous for real so don't put yourself in scarier situations than you can handle. Gradually ramp it up.

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