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    Serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin, and endorphins are happy hormones that promote positive feelings like pleasure, happiness, and love. Serotonin stabilizes mood and feelings of well-being, while dopamine signals reward and pleasure. Oxytocin promotes bonding, love, and trust, and endorphins relieve stress and pain. These hormones impact essential processes like mood, sleep, digestion, and social interaction.

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    Serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin, and endorphins are happy hormones that promote positive feelings like pleasure, happiness, and love. Serotonin stabilizes mood and feelings of well-being, while dopamine signals reward and pleasure. Oxytocin promotes bonding, love, and trust, and endorphins relieve stress and pain. These hormones impact essential processes like mood, sleep, digestion, and social interaction.

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    06.

    A Winter Final Worksheet Happy Hormones

    Happy Hormones

    Serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin, and endorphins are famously happy hormones that promote

    positive feelings like pleasure, happiness, and even love. Hormones and neurotransmitters are

    involved in lots of essential processes, like heart rate and digestion, but also your mood and

    feelings.

    Serotonin is the key hormone that stabilizes our mood, feelings of well-being, and happiness.

    This hormone impacts your entire body. It enables brain cells and other nervous system cells to

    communicate with each other. Serotonin also helps with sleeping, eating, and digestion.

    Dopamine is your brain's signal that a reward is at hand. The joyful excited feeling is released

    when you approach something that meets an unmet need. Oxytocin is the good feeling of social

    trust. It's released when you find the safety of social support.

    When you're attracted to another person, your brain releases dopamine, your serotonin levels

    increase, and oxytocin is produced. This causes you to feel a surge of positive emotion.

    Oxytocin is a hormone secreted by the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland, a pea-sized structure

    at the base of the brain. It's sometimes known as the "cuddle hormone" or the "love hormone,"

    because it is released when people snuggle up or bond socially.

    Endorphins are chemicals produced by the body to relieve stress and pain. They work similarly to

    a class of drugs called opioids. Opioids relieve pain and can produce a feeling of euphoria.

    Serotonin: mood stabiliser, wellbeing, happine...

    Dopamine: pleasure, motivational role in brain’s ...

    Oxytocin: Bonding, love, trust

    Endorphins: Pain relief, runner’s high, relaxation

    Dopamine is a type of neurotransmitter. Your body makes it, and your nervous system uses it to

    send messages between nerve cells. That's why it's sometimes called a chemical messenger.

    Dopamine plays a role in how we feel pleasure. It's a big part of our unique human ability to think
    06.A Winter Final Worksheet Happy Hormones
    and plan. It helps us strive, focus, and find things interesting.

    Dopamine Basics

    It’s made in the brain through a two-step process. First, it changes the amino acid tyrosine to a

    substance called dopa, and then into dopamine.

    It affects many parts of your behavior and physical functions, such as:
    • Learning • Sleep
    • Motivation • Mood
    • Heart rate • Attention
    • Blood vessel function • Control of nausea and vomiting
    • Kidney function • Pain processing
    • Lactation • Movement
    Role in Mental Health

    It’s hard to pinpoint a single cause of most mental health disorders and challenges. But they're
    often linked to too much or too little dopamine in different parts of the brain. Examples include:

    • ADHD
    • Schizophrenia

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