💊The Dopamine Trap: Love, Addiction & Creativity!💊

Confidently Insecure

Kelsey Darragh

Society & Culture, Education, Comedy

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I’m diving into the brain chemical that rules our lives: dopamine. Pulling from Dr. Anna Lembke’s Dopamine Nation, Andrew Huberman’s research on addiction, and the book The Molecule of More, we’ll cover:

✨ Why dopamine isn’t about happiness—it’s about wanting more

✨ How love, sex, drugs, and TikTok all hijack the same system

✨ Why the honeymoon phase feels like a drug… and why long-term love feels different

✨ The dark side of dopamine: addiction, tolerance, anxiety

✨ How to reclaim dopamine for creativity, ambition & joy

Whether you’re addicted to your phone, chasing love like it’s cocaine, or just trying to understand why Oreos are impossible to eat “in moderation,” this episode will make you laugh and maybe change how you live.

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0:00.0	Come one, come all.
0:03.2	Welcome to Confidently and Secure the podcast where we're absolutely sure we don't know everything.
0:09.7	Coffee don't.
0:12.5	I'll never forget the time that Zach spoiled it to y'all that the real reason I do certain episodes every week is it's because what I'm going through.
0:22.7	And at first I was like, nah, that's just sometimes that gives me idea.
0:26.5	Y'all, it is so true.
0:28.1	It is so true.
0:29.6	And this week, your girl has been struggling.
0:33.5	If you noticed last week, okay, anytime I've ever missed a podcast episode, it's been planned.
0:40.0	It's been like a holiday or like I knew I had a work thing coming up or whatever.
0:44.4	It's always been planned.
0:45.7	Last week was the first episode in six years since I've started this thing that I didn't put up an episode because things just felt
0:57.6	like they were crashing down around me. And this episode is going to be talking about dopamine
1:04.0	and happiness and what we can do to monitor it to take a pause when the world feels like we're crashing out
1:13.9	and how we can reinstate healthy habits, how we can come down from those crazy chaotic
1:21.0	highs that your girl has been going through.
1:24.2	And I'll admit, I will tell you guys, I will be on this with the confidants because there's like a very special group here, right?
1:32.1	Like I don't talk about everything that I talk about on the podcast that like I tell you guys everything.
1:39.5	Sometimes on social media and on TikTok and Instagram, like, I'm not even saying everything that's going on
1:44.4	on my life. I feel like I know this is a safe space. This is an audience. I have like come to
1:49.0	know and love very deeply. So I have no problem telling you all the truth. I decided to join a 12-step
1:58.6	program. And don't worry. That doesn't mean I have started drinking again because I didn't.
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