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#140 - Dr. Anna Lembke: Understanding Addictions, Dopamine & Motivation, The Path To Recovery, Pain & Pleasure Balance, Socially Acceptable Addictions, Radical Honesty, Opioids, CBD & THC, And More!

The Melanie Avalon Biohacking Podcast

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The Story of a Psychiatric Patient

The first note i i like 30 pages of notes, but the first note i have is, she is a really good writer. So i wanted to communicate the neurol science plus these true individual stories of my patients to express certain ideas that i haveev olved over two decades of practising psychiatry about how to achieve the good life in a world that's constantly tempting us to engage in titillating ourselves or the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake. I should say too that i opened the book with story of a patient of mine with a sex ediction. And i thought his story exemple very specifically the ways in which technology and the communications revolution wrought by the innernat has

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