#191 - Anna Lembke on DOPAMINE NATION

Renowned psychiatrist and medical director of Stanford Addiction Medicine Dr. Anna Lembke chats with Trey Elling about DOPAMINE NATION: FINDING BALANCE IN THE AGE OF INDULGENCE. Questions include: What is dopamine, and what does popular culture get wrong about it? (01:27) How does the dopamine economy play into the compulsive abuse of substances and activities? (03:59) How has helicopter parenting contributed to the rise of compulsive behaviors? (05:42) Is mental illness that requires medication being overdiagnosed? (07:08) How do pleasure and pain work like a balance in our brains? (07:49) What effect does gambling have on dopamine release, and how might that help explain social media addiction? (10:53) How does learning increase dopamine firing? (14:48) What is dopamine fasting? (16:55) How does pain become pleasurable? (23:06) Why do people respond so positively to 'radical honesty'? (26:08) What is prosocial shame, and how can parents implement it with their children? (28:16) What is the proper point of moderation? (32:11)