Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence (Unabridged) Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence (Unabridged)

Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES and LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER
“Brilliant . . . riveting, scary, cogent, and cleverly argued.”—Beth Macy, author of Dopesick,
as heard on Fresh Air


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.
 
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.

GENRE
Nonfiction
NARRATOR
DAL
Dr. Anna Lembke
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
06:11
hr min
RELEASED
2021
August 24
PUBLISHER
Penguin Audio
SIZE
380.2
MB

Customer Reviews

jjfrwnch ,

Great Writing, but cynical

This book is extremely informative, and I did enjoy reading it. However, this book truly does take a cynical view point to modern forms of enjoyment. The author fails to highlight that feeling good is okay, and the writing can definitely put you in a less than happy mood as a result. It isn’t wrong to seek out enjoyment, and happiness is extremely important. Don’t put your life under a microscope as a result of reading this book. Just sit back and take the points the author presents with a grain of salt.

Auntie GenX ,

Garbage

From the New York Times’ critique:

“Because video games and pornography can be habit-forming, some researchers — including Dr. Lembke — have hypothesized that they might cause similar signs of tolerance in the brain. However, in an interview with The New York Times, she admitted that this theory is inferred from studies of stimulant drugs and that there isn’t currently evidence to back it up.”

The book starts with an extremely detailed description of a jerk off, device, created by a sexual deviant. Then the author goes into a 5 year old sodomizing his toddler brother, based on a Japanese cartoon the perpetrator watched.

No need for the traumatizing shock content. The book is trash scientifically speaking. The author is gross.

enreay89 ,

Ignorant and Disappointing

I had high hopes for this book based on doctor Lempke’s credentials and sited involvements with other platforms that discuss the neuroscience of addiction, however, I was very disappointed. The studies she sites and the analogies she utilizes to describe addiction are dated, unremarkable and often come across as ignorant/judgmental.

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