Early Warning Signs of Addiction

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Early warning sign is something called the double life or the lying habit. It's very easy to minimize in our own minds how much and how often we're consuming our drug of choice. Craving is overwhelming feelings of wanting to use that can be manifested as intrusive thoughts of our drug but also as physiologic feelings like sweating,. stomach cramps suggested overwhelming panicky feeling if I don't use right now the world's going to come to an end. The other things are the you know just the four C's out of control use using more than we plan to on any given occasion, compulsive use where there's this level of automaticity where we're initiating use even though when we hadn't

Are you scrolling on your phone constantly? How badly do you crave that morning cup of coffee? Are you compulsively gambling, drinking, shopping, or even reading romance novels just to fall asleep? The potential for addiction is everywhere in our society, and on this episode of The Knowledge Project psychiatrist and author Dr. Anna Lembke discusses dopamine, addictive behaviors, warning signs and treatment for addiction, and how our brains handle all that pleasure and pain in life. Dr. Lembke is professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. She appeared in the 2020 Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma to discuss the addictive nature of social media, and she is the author of the 2021 New York Times bestseller Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence, which explores how to moderate compulsive overconsumption in a dopamine-overloaded world.

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