Brain Science
This “feel-good” hormone and neurotransmitter is an important part of your brain’s reward system.
What is Dopamine?
Just like drugs or alcohol, people who compulsively shop or gamble eventually need to increase the frequency or intensity of the behavior to achieve the same "high" known as...
What is Tolerance?
This legal substance is one of the most commonly misused drugs in the United States. It slows down the brain and body, lowers inhibitions, and withdrawal can be life-threatening.
What is Alcohol?
Thinking in extremes like “I always fail” or “Everything is ruined.”
What is Black and White Thinking/All or Nothing?
Something red that smells like blue paint.
What is red paint?
This brain chemical is usually released when we make physical contact with someone we love and is known for being our love and trust hormone.
What is Oxytocin?
The most widely recognizable diagnosable behavioral addiction.
What is Gambling Disorder?
This stimulant is usually consumed as a white powder through snorting, smoking, or injecting. It creates a short, intense high followed by a crash.
What is Cocaine?
Assuming the worst possible outcome will happen.
What is Catastrophizing?
This body part has a bottom at the top.
What are your legs?
Known as the “leadership hormone,” this chemical flows when you feel important or significant. It’s also the brain chemical behind feelings of pride, loyalty, accomplishment, and gratitude.
What is Serotonin?
Behavioral addiction known for needing further studies but is known to significantly impair daily functioning through excessive and compulsive engagement.
What is Internet Gaming Disorder?
This substance affects mood, memory, and coordination. It can be smoked, vaped, or eaten.
What is Cannabis?
Believing one negative event means everything will continue negatively.
What is Overgeneralizing?
I can fill a room but take up no space. What am I?
What is light?
This chemical gives us that boost of energy, focus, and calm we typically feel after a good workout. This brain chemical essentially works like a natural pain-killer; it’s released when we push our bodies beyond our comfort levels or persevere when we want to give up.
What are Endorphins?
Behavioral addictions trigger the release of this brain chemical, reinforcing the behavior.
What is Dopamine?
This powerful opioid is commonly prescribed for severe pain but is now responsible for many overdose deaths because even tiny amounts can stop breathing.
What is Fentanyl?
Predicting negative outcomes as if they are facts without evidence.
What is Fortune Telling?
The more you take away from me, the bigger I become. What am I?
What is a hole?
Located in the basal ganglia, this region is widely known as the primary core for reward, motivation, and the desire to seek out pleasure.
What is the Nucleus Accumbens?
Psychologist who has been arguing since 1982 that pathological gambling should be classified as a behavioral addiction.
Who is Gerhard Meyer?
This synthetic stimulant is often called "bath salts." It can cause severe paranoia, hallucinations, violent behavior, and an extremely elevated heart rate.
What are Synthetic Cathinones?
Believing other people’s behaviors or situations are automatically about you.
What is Personalization?
I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind. What am I?
What is an echo?