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162. We're All Addicted: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence with Dr. Anna Lembke

Wellness While Walking

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The Third Rule of the Balance

For every pleasure, we pay a price. It may be outside of conscious awareness, but it's a kind of intense craving to have that pleasurable stimulus. With repeated exposure to the same or similar reinforcing stimulus, that initial deviation to the side of pleasure gets weaker and shorter. But the after response to pain gets stronger and longer. So if I continue to watch TikTok videos over many hours or days, two weeks, two months, two years, I eventually end up with so many gremlins on the pain side of my balance that I'm in a chronic dopamine deficit state.

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