How to Fix Your Dopamine Addiction | Stanford Prof. Dr Anna Lembke

Relating complex neuroscience to our lived experience, Stanford Prof. Dr Anna Lembke will help us make sense of our dopamine-overloaded world and guide us towards a wiser, more balanced life.

Why does the pursuit of fleeting pleasure lead to pain… and what can we do about it?

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 smartphone is the modern-day hypodermic needle, delivering digital dopamine 24/7 for a wired generation. We've all become vulnerable to compulsive overconsumption.

[Maktheblade]

I have to say (2:47) "eliminating" your stressor for addiction for 30 days must sound simple from a clinical perspective, but there's no advice on how to do that exactly! That is the core problem ffs! Oh really, I can just stop overworking for 30 days if I want to? Gee, thanks... and the whole "you'll feel worse before you feel better" line makes it even worse. So not only are we supposed to stop doing the thing we're addicted to through nothing but willpower, but it'll suck when we start doing it - the most important time for it to resolve as a habit. Seriously, medical professionals that don't have lived-with experience aren't very useful.

[burprobrox]

Sean I think you need help if you have 50% of the comments.

[seanoconnor]

Stop thinking about yourself and think about others. If you're stressed then do something different but try not telling everyone all about how you feel. Talk about something interesting

[seanoconnor]

Never in my worst nightmares have I heard such nonsense. How on earth do you get so self obsessed? Just get on with your life and think about others rather than yourself. A keep your money in your pocket