How to find a balance between pleasure and pain?
This book is about pleasure. But it's also about pain. The main issue, however, is how to strike a delicate balance between these two opposites, and why it is now more than ever necessary to strike that balance.
We live in an age of unlimited access to high dopamine stimuli: drugs, food, to the news, gambling, shopping, playing, SMS, sexting, social media... Increased number, the variety and potency is staggering. The smartphone is a modern hypodermic needle that supplies us with digital dopamine 24/7.
Learn to keep dopamine under control
Dr. Anna Lembke, psychiatrist and author of the audiobook Dopamine, explores exciting new scientific discoveries that explain why the relentless pursuit of pleasure leads to pain and what to do about it. By simplifying complex neuroscience into easy-to-understand metaphors, the author illustrates how to keep dopamine in check and find contentment. The riveting experiences of the doctor's patients are also a very engaging part of the audiobook.
