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I heard that when you take some sorts of drugs ie MDMA, your brain releases alot of Serotonin and thats what gives you the euphoric effect. This in turns alters your reality.

 

Is there a medical condition when a persons brain goes crazy and starts producing and releasing large doses of Serotonin, making the person perminantly euphric.?

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I'm not sure if that particular condition exists, but imo, anything can happen in the brain from taking psychoactive drugs. I'm aware of a condition called HPPD from psychadelics, but that is usually visual. There are different versions of it that include depersonalization and derealization, most of the time caused by MDMA, but these make the person feel anything but euphoric. I currently have HPPD from LSD not reacting well with my brain and it's purely visual. Chairs hovering over the carpet, light changing colors, and stuff like that. So I wouldn't put it passed a psychadelic drug to permantly lock someone in a loop of euphoria.

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I heard that when you take some sorts of drugs ie MDMA, your brain releases alot of Serotonin and thats what gives you the euphoric effect. This in turns alters your reality.
MDMA has an effect similar to amphetamine. It elevates levels of dopamine (DA) in the reward centres of the brain. All drugs of abuse share this common effect, although their specific effects differ. Increased DA in the reward centres results in feeling of euphoria (reward). Whilst this chemically induced euphoria could be said to be an alteration in your reality, insofar as you are happy with no real reason, it doesn't alter your reality in the same way that LSD does.

 

Is there a medical condition when a persons brain goes crazy and starts producing and releasing large doses of Serotonin, making the person perminantly euphric.?
No. There is a condition related to amphetamine based drugs though. If you take too much, then too much DA is released and you develop Amphetamine Psychosis. This is clinically indistiguishable from an acute schitzophrenic episode (schitzophrenia is also associated with elevated levels of DA). I wouldn't call amphetamine psychosis a euphoric state, but it is temporary and passes as the drug is metabolised.

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