How to Beat Any Addiction, with Dr. Anna Lembke, Author of Dopamine Nation
Keeping It Real: Conversations with Jillian Michaels
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The Importance of Understanding Addiction
I think so many of us are doing this all wrong, totally backwards. Just understanding something doesn't mean we'll necessarily be able to fix it or change the behaviors that are the result of it. If you have a biological system, the best way to understand that biological system is to change a variable in the system and see what happens. So that's why this whole idea of first you stop the behavior, you suffer the pain of withdrawal. You reset brain chemistry and then from there from that vantage point, you can stop and take a look around and see what's going on.
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