#159 Dr. Anna Lembke: Between Pleasure and Pain

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

Shane Parrish

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Are you scrolling on your phone constantly? How badly do you crave that morning cup of coffee? Are you compulsively gambling, drinking, shopping, or even reading romance novels just to fall asleep? The potential for addiction is everywhere in our society, and on this episode of The Knowledge Project psychiatrist and author Dr. Anna Lembke discusses dopamine, addictive behaviors, warning signs and treatment for addiction, and how our brains handle all that pleasure and pain in life.

Dr. Lembke is professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. She appeared in the 2020 Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma to discuss the addictive nature of social media, and she is the author of the 2021 New York Times bestseller Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence, which explores how to moderate compulsive overconsumption in a dopamine-overloaded world.

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0:00.0	People can use, as I said, because they want to have fun.
0:03.4	People can use because they're trying to self-medicate a psychological problem.
0:08.2	People can use because they're trying to escape a traumatic situation,
0:12.6	or they've had a negative experience, and they're trying to get away from that.
0:16.4	All of those are reasons that people use substances.
0:20.6	Once people begin to use addictive substances in large quantities on a regular basis,
0:27.2	it changes their brain.
0:29.4	And now they have a secondary problem, right?
0:32.8	So they might have started using for one problem, but they eventually develop another problem,
0:37.2	and that problem is the disease of addiction.
0:57.0	Welcome to the Knowledge Project.
0:58.8	I'm your host, Shane Parish.
1:01.2	This podcast is about mastering the best of what other people have already figured out,
1:05.6	so you can apply their insights to your life.
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1:24.2	Check out the show notes for a link.
1:26.2	This episode is about pleasure.
1:28.6	And pain.
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