All around us people are looking at their phones too much eating too much drinking too much.
Our world is addicted to fleeting distracting pleasures that get us nowhere. Dr. Anna Lembke
provides a clear way back to a balanced life. This book is about pleasure and pain: how to
find the delicate balance between the two and why finding balance is more essential than ever.
We live in a time of unprecedented access to high-reward high-dopamine stimuli: drugs food
news gambling shopping gaming messaging sexting tweeting... The smartphone is the
modern-day hypodermic needle delivering digital dopamine 24 7 for a wired generation. We've
all become vulnerable to compulsive overconsumption. In Dopamine Nation psychiatrist Dr. Anna
Lembke explores the exciting new scientific discoveries that explain why the relentless pursuit
of pleasure leads to pain and what to do about it. Condensing complex neuroscience into
easy-to-understand metaphors Lembke illustrates how finding contentment and connectedness
means keeping dopamine in check. The lived experiences of her patients are the gripping fabric
of her narrative. Their riveting stories of suffering and redemption give us all hope for
managing our consumption and transforming our lives. In essence Dopamine Nation shows that
the secret to finding balance is combining the science of desire with the wisdom of recovery.
