Dopamine nation : finding balance in the age of indulgence / Anna Lembke, M.D.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Dutton, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781524746728
- 152474672X
- Finding balance in the age of indulgence
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
We are all living in a sea of compulsive overconsumption. 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 at best get us nowhere. In her extraordinarily powerful book, Dr. Anna Lembke, Medical Director of Stanford Addiction Medicine, diagnoses the problem and provides a clear way back to a balanced life.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-273) and index.
"Resettling Your Brain in the Age of Cheap Pleasures"-- Provided by publisher.
This book is about pleasure. It's also about pain. Most important, 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.