Overstimulation Is Ruining your Mental Health

A deep dive into how our addiction to convenience and instant gratification may be silently eroding our mental and physical well-being...

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𝗢𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗺𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗦𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗥𝘂𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵
00:00 Introduction
01:07 The Dark Side of Abundance
02:27 The Pleasure Pain Paradox
04:45 Rats & Levers
06:12 Hyperstimulated Society
10:13 Stimulation War
12:44 An Unusual Solution

🎥 Josh Brett @brettjosh = Making honest, investigative health & fitness documentaries.

[brettjosh]

Feel free to watch this one at 2x speed if it's not stimulating enough😉

P.S. Not good timing for a Cody Ko clip🙃

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[acook]

The irony of watching this on my phone…

[gregdoucette]

Another killer video I myself went through a dopamine detox cutting out caffeine and other things for an entire month. What a difference in me when I went back to having just a half of a scoop of pre-workout unbelievable how much we get accustomed to overdoing what we’re doing

[DBucksify]

Josh Brett is becoming a premier youtube essayist

[HughLeFitness]

It's okay to be bored. Even for hours a day. Do not be tempted to fill every second with checking your phones.

[Poopoocachoo]

Fuck. I knew all of this already but still seeing it opened my eyes. I’m pretty healthy but social media, caffeine, and other things you don’t typically view as “unhealthy” are all way too prevalent in my life

[thomaswatson]

I have no idea how this guy isn’t massive in this space

[morisdakar]

I’ve tried deleting social media from my phone for the past week, using it only on my laptop or a browser which doesn’t give you the best experience specially when you can’t watch too many reels or tiktoks
Also set an app limit for 15 min after 12 am so i can’t doom scroll for hours and not have a sense of time.
I’ve been sleeping better, sometimes feeling lonely and sometimes feeling frustrated because my life is significantly slower.
The experiment will continue. But for now it’s been life changing .

[Konayo_]

Covid also brought me into a deep hole of overstimulation.

Working for a degree in a top10 (global) uni while working (too much) and working out - all of that out of one single room. Not really living healthy (5h34min sleep on average, always drinking stuff like coke zero, eating processed foods etc).

After 8 months I just collapsed on the street - burnout (not a medical diagnosis); heavy depression, panic disorder and anxiety disorder. Took me a year to recover. At that point I got EBV (virus) and it was super hard to get my life back under control (doing bills, taxes etc. properly). In the end it took me 2.5 years to get back on track; living healthy, thoughtful and consciously.

The most difficult part of it all was (and still is) getting out of overstimulation. It is so easily available (as you said in the video) and in so many different forms ... and the only person that regulates our consumation is ourselves.

Great video - I hope the insights will help some people that watch this.

Also crazy editing (for this size of a YT channel) - I'd guess you have an editor or got some help with it?

PS; I'm gonna delete this comment soon as I wanna share the video with a few people and don't like them to read my online comments for some reason

[reignman]

Well stated. I got rid of social media 2 years ago. Thing is, people at work look at me strange bc of it. I'm accused of hiding, being weird, not with the times, but they can't go 10 minutes without picking up their phone. It's nuts. There must be some way I can capitalize on this. Just haven't figured it out yet.

[stargazerbird]

It’s not just social media. I scroll YouTube for entertainment. Going spend the rest of this day without screens.

[NOverpelt]

I literally just finished Dopamine Nation last weekend. Great short book, I recommend it a lot! You captured it’s essence very well in your video Josh. Keep it up!

[sevenmillionhobbies]

Like scratching a mosquito bite until it needs stitches…

[sherbok]

Josh is the best video essayer on YouTube HANDS DOWN!

[ditznfitness]

The people born before 2005, were the very last people on earth to grow up without a phone stuck to their hand before kindergarten, draining all of their braincells from them so that they can't spend them on actually learning to socialize, which will be a huge part of their life when they grow older and need a job, and need to form a career for themselves. Think about that.

[assassincodm]

This right here, is the video filled with golden advice for everyone. Majority people seek pleasure more and more because they confuse responsibility with stress, which leads to a whole lot of unnecessary doubts and fears which just fuels their desire to seek pleasure. Thank you josh brett, this video of yours was a great attempt in terms of removing the societal brainwashing.

[walidak]

Goggins reaction to Andrew at the end comforts him so deeply he's like saying "Finally someone who's smart and can understand why i'm doing this and all the thousands of miles i ran won't go for nothing"

[emmanuelwolfmusic]

It feels like the equivalent of walking from one room to another with anxiety. I'm so mentally tired from the things that I cannot fix in the world, yet I feel like there isn't any justice left. So it leaves me cold, worn out, having plenty to do but not wanting to do anything at all. Most of the time I find myself staring into space wishing I was better but I never do get better, oh dear 😢.

[Mathenix]

A video on overstimulation that makes transitions every 1 - 3 seconds, couldn't get more ironic.

[nax]

Dr. andrew Huberman gives a great podcast about this subject, highly reccomend