Your Outrage is Being Monetized and Your Mind is Paying the Price
The Dr. Leaf Show
Dr. Caroline Leaf
4.6 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Algorithms don’t just track what you like—they profit from how often you spiral. In this episode, I break down what happens to your brain when you stay stuck in outrage cycles.
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✅ The dopamine-cortisol loop fueling reactive scrolling
✅ How non-conscious thought patterns rehearse chaos into identity
✅ Why emotional volatility gets monetized—and how to reclaim your mind
This isn’t about deleting your apps. It’s about updating the mental architecture that keeps you in a loop you didn’t consent to.
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| 0:00.0 | You weren't born addicted to outrage, but your brain has been conditioned to crave it. |
| 0:06.4 | They don't just want your clicks. They want your cortisol. |
| 0:09.6 | When you stay mad, the algorithm gets smarter and your identity gets noisier. |
| 0:15.1 | You weren't being served. You were being studied. |
| 0:19.4 | You don't have to be rage posting to be stuck in the loop. |
| 0:23.1 | Sometimes it's just a scroll that goes on for too long, |
| 0:25.9 | a comment section you wish you hadn't opened, |
| 0:28.4 | a clip that leaves a pit in your stomach and stays with you for hours. |
| 0:32.8 | Here's what's very disturbing. |
| 0:35.0 | You didn't choose to feel that way, but your brain, |
| 0:39.2 | and more importantly your mind was being conditioned to feel that way. |
| 0:41.7 | One of the largest studies on emotional content sharing found that anger spreads faster than |
| 0:47.0 | any other emotion online. |
| 0:49.4 | Not because people enjoy being mad, but because anger triggers two systems at once. |
| 0:55.1 | Your non-conscious mind, which fires up to restore the balance that the disruption has caused, and your physiology, |
| 1:00.6 | your brain's reward pathway, lights up as it anticipates another emotionally charged interaction, |
| 1:06.9 | and at the same time, your cortisol levels rise in preparation for threat. |
| 1:11.9 | This combination is volatile, to say the least. |
| 1:15.4 | The conscious mind is saying, fix the problem and restore balance. |
| 1:18.8 | Dopamine says more, more, more. |
| 1:21.2 | Cortisol says, defend, defend, defend. |
| 1:23.9 | The results, your body feels really overactivated. |
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