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266 - Finding Balance: The Paradox of Pain and Pleasure

Stoic Coffee Break

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The Effects of Addiction on the Brain

We have so much instant pleasure at our fingertips. We can easily find ourselves addicted without even really being conscious of what is happening to us. In fact, the researcher Analemke talks about her own addiction that disrupted her life in a fairly dramatic way. She found that she had been starting to lose connection with the real world and escaping into the fantasy of the pages of Veronica.

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