“When we experience danger, the healthy brain produces chemicals that create feelings of elation, exuberance, even grandiosity. These chemicals help protect us, preparing us to face danger. Our world of relative safety has not diminished the human response to these chemicals. We crave the high that danger and risk bring us. Extreme sports, drugs, financial risk, sex, extreme behaviors of every kind. It’s a merry-go-round of desire and fulfillment, fear and release, danger and safety, risk and reward. It’s human to feel this way.
