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Dopamine Nation

Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

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Dopamine Nation

Von: Anna Lembke
Gesprochen von: Anna Lembke
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 All around us people are looking at their phones too much, eating too much, drinking too much. Our world is addicted to fleeting distracting pleasures that get us nowhere. Dr Anna Lembke provides a clear way back to a balanced life.

This audiobook is about pleasure. It's also about pain. Most importantly, it's about how to find the delicate balance between the two, and why now more than ever finding balance is essential. We're living in a time of unprecedented access to high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli: drugs, food, news, gambling, shopping, gaming, texting, sexting, Facebooking, Instagramming, YouTubing, tweeting... The increased numbers, variety, and potency is staggering. The smartphone is the modern-day hypodermic needle, delivering digital dopamine 24/7 for a wired generation. As such we've all become vulnerable to compulsive overconsumption.

In Dopamine Nation, Dr. Anna Lembke, psychiatrist and author, explores the exciting new scientific discoveries that explain why the relentless pursuit of pleasure leads to pain...and what to do about it. Condensing complex neuroscience into easy-to-understand metaphors, Lembke illustrates how finding contentment and connectedness means keeping dopamine in check. The lived experiences of her patients are the gripping fabric of her narrative. Their riveting stories of suffering and redemption give us all hope for managing our consumption and transforming our lives. In essence, Dopamine Nation shows that the secret to finding balance is combining the science of desire with the wisdom of recovery.

'Dr Anna Lembke is a whiz on why we get hooked on things - and how we can enjoy pleasurable things in healthier doses.' - The Guardian

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Anna Lembke's stories of guiding people to find a healthy balance between pleasure and pain have the power to transform your life (Lori Gottlieb, bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone)
Brilliant . . . No matter what you might find yourself over-indulging in-from the internet to food to work to sex-you'll find this book riveting, scary, cogent, and cleverly argued. Lembke weaves patient stories with research, in a voice that's as empathetic as it is clear-eyed (Beth Macy, bestselling author of Dopesick)
Radically changes the way we think about mental illness, pleasure, pain, reward, and stress. Turn toward it. You'll be happy you did (Daniel Levitin, bestselling author of The Organized Mind and Successful Aging)
[An] eye-opening survey on pleasure-seeking and addiction . . . Readers looking for balance will return to Lembke's informative and fascinating guidance.
fascinating case histories, and a sensible formula for treatment.
Dr Anna Lembke is a whiz on why we get hooked on things - and how we can enjoy pleasurable things in healthier doses
Explore[s] the dichotomy between seeking a readily accessible hit of dopamine - from our phones, gambling, or a bag of Fritos - and maintaining healthy, productive, stable lives. (The New York Times)
[An] eye- opening survey on pleasure - seeking and addiction . . . Readers looking for balance will return to Lembke's informative and fascinating guidance. (Publishers Weekly)
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"Dopamine Nation" fails to deliver on its promise to explain addictive behaviours through the intricate brain science of pleasure and pain. Instead, it primarily presents a series of case studies, detailing the author's work with patients. The prevailing approach seems to be a rather simplistic directive for individuals to "just stop" their addictive habits, lacking the nuanced scientific or psychological framework one might expect. A particularly jarring instance involves the recommendation for a patient to engage in prayer when confronted with their addiction, despite the author's acknowledgement that this is not a conventional therapeutic method and that religion should ideally be separate from therapy. This raises serious concerns about the book's professional integrity.

My experience of the book was one of growing disillusionment, leading me to abandon it midway. The overarching component promised by the title is conspicuously absent. There's no discussion on the impact of new media until the middle of the book, the constant availability of stimuli, or how a global pandemic (amongst others) might have influenced addictive patterns.

What remains are merely stories of addicts, without the broader, more analytical perspective that the title and subject matter imply.

A growing disillusionment

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