Dopamine made my life like a living hell and meaningful simultaneously… It really formed my

life path. Dopamine synthesis, which has similarities to my life, begins with the phenylalanine
and proceeds sequentially through tyrosine, dihydroxyphenylalanine (DOPA), and then
dopamine. When I first got interested in biochemistry only a year ago, I felt like I finally found
a way out to the surface to breathe while drowning.

A woman who was sobbing as if she wanted to die on the maternity hospital bed finally gave
birth to me with a blue body and there was no sound of child crying. Since my parents were
divorced at that time and I was not really planned, my grandparents were the only ones with
me when I became conscious. Then, BOOM, I got into a school and everything changed.
Stepfather, newborn sister… I was physically and mentally abused since I lived with my
mother. She would hit me on my back or my head because I would get bruises if she hit me
on the other parts of my body. The more traumatizing and hurtful thing she did to me was
cursing.

Phenylalanine  → Tyrosine
The only thing I would do to distract myself was reading and surfing the internet. I have
finished every single article on Mongolian websites that published every range of news
spending around 3 hours every day. I then used google translate to read articles in English
even though It took a lot of tim. I clearly remember that In 4th grade, my very first
presentation topic was about Isaac Newton and the next was the opah that is the only known
fully warm-blooded fish whereas my classmates talked about a book and celebrities. That
was the first time I hit the dopamine peak because I found something that I was genuinely
obsessed with.

Tyrosine → DOPA
Since I was enough of my mother’s pressure on me, I called the police two times. I spend 2
weeks fully isolated in child shelter. After all this, I realized that the life that I want everything
to be perfect never turns out the way I want it to. No matter how much I tried to distract
myself from the depression, the every single words of my mother, my friends and everyone
kept repeating in my head like an echo. Whenever there was no one around me, I couldn't
hold back the tears. What saved me from a mentally unstable situation were cigarettes and
alcohol. As the music played, I cried in my dark room and took a deep drag on my cigarette,
feeling all my sadness leave me with the smoke. I became addicted to the substances that
made me release dopamine in my brain. I was stuck in a dark cycle of dopamine. It seemed
like he could be distracted, but in reality, things were getting worse.

DOPA → Dopamine
I spent almost 3 years being an addict. Falling in love with someone way older than me
made all my sorrows worse and fall into the darkest hell. It seemed to me that the only way
to end it all was death, and life couldn't be worse than that situation. I had completely
forgotten the pleasure I felt in science at first. By chance, I chose a chemistry elective. For
the first time, I felt good and felt like I was cut off from the world. I became obsessed with
chemistry and forgot all the bad and dark things that happened to me only when I was
studying chemistry. I found somewhere where I belong which was the biochemistry. After
studying more about dopamine, I realized that I had to break my bad habits, and now I have
no reason to have a bad habit.
Life becomes sweeter and more meaningful when you can release dopamine by loving and
enjoying something. Dopamine made my life like a living hell and meaningful
simultaneously…

1. add your chemistry details, main thing u should write was too short.
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