Essentials: Understanding & Treating Addiction | Dr. Anna Lembke

Fasting will also help to quit addiction!

Dopamine Nation is a fantastic book, great read. I highly recommend it to be honest.

Just don't start nicotine.

Dr. Just tell us about leach tearapy, how it sucks blood for own stimulation, some will be aware about it & get knowledge

HOLY CRAP. Finally someone who sees the world as I do. Im a recovering addict. Clean for almost 3 years now. I wasn't trying to cover up any trauma, I wasn't depressed, I was bored and I had a few head injuries and I think it made me more impulsive than most, also have addiction in my family but I am only addict of my siblings. I always told the health care workers that I was just bored and had discovered pain pills when I had a surgery when I Was 16 and it was the best feeling ever and I was constantly chasing that feeling. People aren't lying when they say those drugs are 1000x better than sex, especially for males. Sex for males really isn't anything great.

The way I have stayed clean is by being as active as possible. Working out like my life depends on it, I work out daily. I practice meditation and this was a big one because like I said, I was constantly bored. Learning how to sit with yourself and your thoughts and feelings is such a great tool to have. I want to write a book and write music, and constantly learn. Part of me thought that I should get a job that's something human's have done forever like be a builder, or work on an oil rig, do something physically and mentally challenging , but I did this in my early 20s and it's another reason why I was using drugs. I would be outside in 0 degree weather with 25 mph winds for 8 hours a day and I'd get home and just not be able to move. Cover myself in blankets and try to figure out how to feed myself. If I can use my brain to make money, I would much rather do that. I am staying in shape physically though just so that if I ever do need to do physical labor again, I will be able to. Praying that retard of a president doesn't really fuck everything up.

But basically, I shifted my perspective. I gained this insight about hard work and effort that I never had had before. Once I got a taste of the rewards of hard work, I realized it's what I was missing. I want to learn how everything works, I want to learn how to be good with money, I want to learn how to sail, I learned how to skateboard. This is what we have to do in today's world. You don't need survival skills anymore, so instead of thinking that's a bad thing because we are bored, you take advantage of that fact and develop all these skills and knowledge and pass them on.

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I'm 3 years clean from 12 years of Heroin Addiction. I lost my family, career, health and motivation during that time. I'm trying my best to convince my wife for another chance but ahe doesn't trust me. I was brilliant in my career but now I can't decide what to do and where to move. I'm having difficulty focusing and taking every distraction as an opportunity. I thought quitting and being clean is difficult but now I realized starting a normal life again is more difficult and challenging.

I have been a cannabis smoker since the age of 16, I am 26 now, and I have already managed to stop for a few days, even half a week (especially when I am on vacation, and I don't miss it that much because I feel like my brain is discovering a lot of things on vacation and therefore doesn't think about it), however when I am at home, and I stop, currently it has been 4/5 days, but everything seems boring to me, as if I have a drop in motivation, in creativity. I started smoking because I found a form of inner peace in smoking; it soothed my emotions which sometimes overwhelmed me. When I was little, a fit of anger could make me tear down a wall, so I did a lot of sports from the age of 6 to 20, about 4 hours a day. Then, when I started smoking, a kind of calming effect appeared, with a less excessive need to do sports, and an ability to take a strong interest in various subjects to the point of becoming competent in various fields. I have the impression that smoking increases my creativity and curiosity. As for sleep, it's a real ordeal. It's 2 a.m. and I'm wide awake, my head full of thoughts. I feel like cannabis channels my thoughts and allows me to fully immerse myself in various areas, sometimes too much! It's complicated because I'd like to be able to say, "Oh, I'm going to smoke a joint and we'll catch up in three months," but I feel like my impulsive behavior and hyperactivity would bring back my old demons, and I'd go back to the spiral of smoking 24/7. It's really strange. In terms of consumption, around the age of 20, I decided to only smoke "sticks" instead of big joints, and my consumption was like 10 sticks a day, at about 4 grams per week, to give you an idea. Whereas when I was younger I could roll a 1g joint, I felt like I'd found the right compromise. But I realize that it creates stress if I don't have any on hand. Just knowing I have enough to roll a joint reassures me and sometimes even pushes me to challenge myself to quit cannabis. Strangely, it's as if my brain is saying, "You have it available if you ever relapse, but challenge yourself to see how far you can go." But as soon as I decide to quit completely, or even to own any, my brain sees it as a constraint and not a challenge because I know I don't have any and that I'll have to face all kinds of emotions and situations without it. I've known people who were real "vegetables" when they smoked, but that wasn't me. I was alert, active, and motivated to undertake all sorts of things! I tell myself that it depends on the person, and on each person's brain, but I still find many similarities with some comments about their withdrawal.

4.5 years alcohol free. I’ve been on and off of opiates (kratom oh7 and prescribed pain killers) for 8 years. Once it hooks me all I can do is maintain. Wish I was free from that.

Stu, please do a video clip on identifying potential self-sabotage cues & triggers to watch out for on the road to sobriety.

Amazing, ty❤

Amazing!! This is the first thing about addiction that has ever really made sense to me. Thank you!

Shit = BEER

Watching this as the year begins, sets the pace on how to handle the Pain-Pleasure equilibrium. Doing day 8 without alcohol, and the desire is intense, Certainly "You will feel worse before you feel better"

its always hard for me to start listening to this broadcast but once i hold 5 min it becomes great
I think learning is really powerful for addiction limitations but it should be in the field the addict likes

The other thing that happens is spiritual death we have seen it

There is a hug difference between pleasure and happiness having pleasure depending of dopamine neurotransmetteur but happiness it's about sérotonine….and just for knowing the only neurotransmetteur that blocked sérotonine production is The Dopaming ….so the people who looking for having just pleasures..fun limits time .they will never feel happy i mean the real happiness ….cause they are on almost of times mad dopamine by their addiction ( behaviour or product ) happiness is a soul spiritual state … pleasure is a body state

After reading “Dopamine Nation”
I had so much self compassion for myself, and also heart felt empathy for others. What a time to be alive. !
I’m forever changed, and sober.

I don’t have an addiction , but I came here to because something made me want to tell you reading this -You are stronger than you know! You’re gonna get through this! The fact that you’re here reading this means that God wants you to know that THIS TIME you are gonna have victory! That grip is no longer there. You are now healing and heading towards that new life of health, wellness and comfort.
You may not realize this now, but there is someone that God has plans to place in your path down the road from now. This person is going to be in that same position you were previously in and is going to desperately need YOU (and nobody else) to get them through their struggle. However, GOD won’t be able to fully use you if you don’t take EVERY opportunity to grow into this. HE knows this is going to be a process and will hold onto you through all of this. You just need to put that baggage down and trust HIM through all of this! Because all of this has that purpose of bringing you that wisdom to one day help that person whom HE has waiting down the road. So please, know that you’re not just doing this for yourself. There is someone, later on in life, that is depending on you coming out of this with great wisdom to use in helping them.
You got this!

I’m currently battling addiction 😢

I dont even want to quit. It is part of who I am. I relapse daily and don't care. I am not addicted. But it is a sin so i have to quit. When ive had enough but it keeps getting worse. Its too embarrassing to admit.

I enjoyed this man answering all the good questions and clarifying everything she said in a easier way to remember and to understand.

Extremely few people are able to kick their addictions, maybe 1 in every 1,000 people can.

This requires levels of willpower that only a tiny percentage of a percentage of people have.