Dr. Anna Lembke, a Stanford psychiatry professor and addiction expert, shares insights on finding balance in today's indulgent world. She discusses the paradox of increased anxiety amidst wealth and the brain's struggle with dopamine overload. Lembke highlights the benefits of a 30-day screen detox for mood enhancement and emphasizes setting healthy boundaries. She encourages embracing discomfort through exercise and challenges to foster well-being, ultimately guiding listeners toward a balanced, fulfilling life.
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Pleasure And Pain Share A Balance
Pleasure and pain are processed in the same brain circuits and push toward a balance called homeostasis.
Repeated indulgence raises your hedonic setpoint so you need more stimulation just to feel normal.
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Abundance Outpaces Our Reward System
Modern abundance of high-reward stimuli overwhelms evolutionary reward systems tuned for scarcity.
Wealthy countries show rising anxiety, depression and addiction despite greater material comfort.
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Month-Off From Screens Transformed A Patient
A young patient with anxiety and gaming addiction felt markedly better after a month-long digital abstinence.
His anxiety and depression decreased because his brain restored baseline dopamine levels.
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How to Find Balance in the Age of Indulgence - Dr. Anna Lembke
Anna Lembke is professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. A clinician scholar, she has published more than a hundred peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, and commentaries. She sits on the board of several state and national addiction-focused organizations, has testified before various committees in the United States House of Representatives and Senate, keeps an active speaking calendar, and maintains a thriving clinical practice.In 2016, she published Drug Dealer, MD – How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), which was highlighted in the New York Times as one of the top five books to read to understand the opioid epidemic (Zuger, 2018). Dr. Lembke recently appeared on the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, an unvarnished look at the impact of social media on our lives."Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence" (Dutton/Penguin Random House, August 2021), an instant New York Times Bestseller, explores how to moderate compulsive overconsumption in a dopamine-overloaded world.To learn more about Dr. Anna Lembke and her book, please visit https://www.annalembke.com/Please consider supporting After Skool on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AfterSkool
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