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Experts On: Addiction and Enlightenment
ManTalks Podcast
The Relationship Between Pleasure and Avoidance
Dopamine Nation is essentially the story of how our primitive brains are not made for our modern environment. Pleasure and pain are co-located in the same parts of the brain, so they work like opposite sides of a balance. When we do something pleasurable, our balance tips slightly to the side of pleasure. But if we repeat that behavior again and again, we eventually end up with so many gremlins on the pain side of the balance that they fill this whole room. That means we have to continue to use our drug just to feel normal. And when we're not using it, we're in a state of withdrawal, craving, irritability, depression, anxiety,.
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