E68: Dopamine, Addiction, Recovery, Social Media (with Dr. Anna Lembke)

Dr. Anna Lembke is a psychiatrist and author. She is the Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic at Stanford University and is the author of the New York Times bestseller Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence.Today we discuss- Dopamine and the different psychological functions it serves - Different addictive behaviours ranging from drugs to alcohol to social media and how they affect can our mental health - The relationship between pleasure and pain ...