E68: Dopamine, Addiction, Recovery, Social Media (with Dr. Anna Lembke)

Dr. Anna Lembke is a psychiatrist and author. She is the Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic at Stanford University and is the author of the New York Times bestseller Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence.

Today we discuss

- Dopamine and the different psychological functions it serves
- Different addictive behaviours ranging from drugs to alcohol to social media and how they affect can our mental health
- The relationship between pleasure and pain and how they are intimately tied together
- How you can re-sensitise yourself to dopamine
- The process of recovering from an addiction
- The importance of an overarching life philosophy when trying to manage an addictive behaviour

Interviewed by Dr. Alex Curmi - Give feedback here - [email protected] Follow us here: Twitter @thinkingmindpod Instagram @thinkingmindpodcast

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