Dopamine Nation
Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
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Dr Anna Lembke
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Dr Anna Lembke
About this listen
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 are 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.
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"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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- Richard C.
- 13-03-22
A crash course in brain chemistry & addiction
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Too much pleasure leads to pain. It can be a long road back.
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- Big Dog
- 28-10-22
I loved it!
Really helped me while I was giving up vaping. Thank you so much ❤️ I will recommend
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- Ismael Gutierrez
- 09-12-22
Essential
Deep, personal and essential. This books condensates years of experience and scientific evidence to explain what we do what we do and why we get addicted to things.
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- Anonymous User
- 28-01-23
Pain-pleasure balance concept
The pain-pleasure dichonomy was new to me.
This audio showes how overstimulated we are on the pleasure side, which results in more experienced pain in our confortable lives than what past generations experienced.
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- Peter
- 09-01-24
Great voice
Insightful and helpful understanding your brain mechanics. Easy to consume without any need for intricate words or scientific terms
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- Anonymous User
- 27-03-24
Worth the later chapters
I have perceived the beginning of this book full of judgemental tainted stories.
Describes kink acts in a way to be shocking and that by engaging in kink acts as a barometer of how 'bad' the client has sunk into addiction. The focus should have been more about the compulsive nature of his behaviours and how it links with addiction and how any addiction has detrimental effects on relationships. The description of kink acts consecutively were to convey " now I have done this, look how bad I am", conjuring up feelings of shame. The response of the practitioner listening the stories also conveyed shock, which if the individual didn't also feel Shame ,they sure did after that psychotherapy session.
in Hinde sight, this maybe due to narrators exaggerated tonal response. Good narration otherwise.
There were a few more initial gripes&I almost stopped reading. However, the book redeams itself in the later chapters conveying more empathy& understanding. This is a book on addiction
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- Amazon Customer
- 15-01-22
Very informative in an easy to hear way
Very happy to have chosen this as a first listen for a new year. A subject close to my heart through which I have lost very dear people in my life, both dead and living. It explains with great examples some of the essential functions of the brain and scientific discoveries which should be accessible to all from a young age and I hope shall help humanity re-balance itself.
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- Stop the lights
- 30-11-21
Good and Insightful
I'm not a fan of books read by their authors however this was well worth it.
Some of her own addictions bear no parallels to peoples with severe addiction and I believe they'd be better left out.
However Anna undoubtedly knows her subject well I think the 10 points it finishes up with sums up the Dopamine World or today and the Anna gives some good tips of how to cope.
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- Anonymous User
- 15-12-21
Everyone needs this
This should be taught in school. Everyone needs to listen to this and incorporate it into their lives.
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- Lynette
- 29-06-22
Excellent
I’ve read a number of books on addiction, this feels different in that not every case history is an extreme and the book highlights how vulnerable we all are in modern life with the potential to distract ourselves and indulge at every turn. Well narrated too. Some of the animal studies get a bit dry but overall very thought provoking and interesting.
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