Euphoria, or feeling of ‘High’ as we normaly know it, is a feeling of happiness that comes as a result of endophrine (a hormone produced by our brain that cause the feeling of happiness and relaxation) release and their binding to the receptors in our brain.
Consumption of alcohol and drugs abuse triggers the release of endhoprine more than normal. This cause the feeling of ultimate euphoria, but sometimes they just backfire and leave u more depress than ever. People with troubles in their mind and facing minor depression tends to go to alcohol and drugs, cause they know they’ll get high and feel happy, even it’s for a while.
We’ve heard a million times that drinking and drugs abuse isn’t healthy and will lead to may health problems and eventually death. But what to do? sometimes we just want to get away from all the problems around us and get the feeling of euphoria even if its just for a whl…
What we don’t know is that the euphoria induced by alcohol and drugs are forced euphorias which will only last as long as we drink and once we stop, it’ll leave us with the worse feeling ever. This is caused by the brain that’s not used to taking too much of endophrines.
What happen is; when we drink alcohol, we force an abnormal release of endophrine in our brain while the endophrine receptors in our brain stays the same amount. Because of the over flowing endophrine n not enough receptors to take it all in, each receptors catches more than the usual amount and get used to that amount.
When we stop drinking, the endophrine release declines while the receptors r still used to to the abnormal amount and they thirst for more endophrine. But they couldn’t get it anymore… and that’s what triggers stress and leave us feeling down for quite some time.
What people usually do to overcome this stress is to drink more and at last it becomes a vicious cycle. And when they are used to it, they don’t feel the after effect of stress and depression anymore all they’ll suffer is the healthy problems that occurs last.
Now, euphoria doesn’t necessarily need alcohol to obtain. Euphoria is a feeling that comes when u r happy, excited or just simple feeling relax. But in our busy days and complicated lives, there’s hardly a time u can relax and feel really happy from within. So how to feel this euphoria without getting into the vicious cycle of alcoholism and everything?
Our brain releases edophrine in normal amount everyday… with this fact, we r s’pose to be happy all the time. But what happens is, we get stress up with things. When we r stressed up, our brain releases serotonin (another hormone). Serotonin and endophrine compete each other for the same receptors and usually the release of serotonin is much more than endophrine when we r stressed. This way, serotonin takes almost all the space for endophrine in the receptors.
To overcome this, we gotta trigger more release of endophrine, but not too much that the receptors get addicted to it. Just a lilltle bit more than normal to over ride the serotonin.
One of the best ways to do this is to exercise… it has been proven that wen we exercise, our brain releases more endophrine and the receptors become more sensitive to endophrines. This is why we feel relaxed and light after we do some exercise (Not stenous though).
Listening to soft music, chocolates, laughing over a joke, hanging out with friends and having some fun, getting a call from some old friend, waking up to a beautiful morning and breath in the morning breeze, going for some hiking and enjoying the nature and fresh air, just sit and think about the good times, looking at a baby’s smilin at u, playing the swing till height, turning the cup in a ride so hard that u feel dizzy, going to all the rides and being a child once in a while… all this and many more help release a lil bit more of endophrine in our brain and they also help making the receptors more sensitive to endophrine rather than serotonin.
For me personally; i love eating chocolates…. going for all the rides in dufan and getting calls from some1 special in the middle of the nite once in a while or perhaps just by giving a surprise to a friend on her b’day by showing up at midnite in front of her door with a cake and a bottle of wine…. 
I get excited when i know i’ve made some1 happy or simply made some1 smile. I become very happy when i realize i’ve made some1’s day brighter just by greeting him/her… and that just bring happiness to me.
The look in the face of those people that u have touched and bring happiness to is the the ultimate bliss and ultimate cause of ultimate EUPHORIA!!!!
