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EPISODE · Apr 24, 2026 · 6 MIN

Depression, Anxiety, and Addiction Might All Be the Same Thing | Michael Pollan

from The Daily Motivation · host Lewis Howes, Michael Pollan

Leave an Amazon Rating or Review for my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy! Check out the full episode: https://greatness.lnk.to/1916DM Your habits are keeping you alive. They're also keeping you stuck. Michael Pollan makes a case that rattles the foundation of modern psychiatry: depression, anxiety, addiction, and OCD may not be separate diseases at all. They might be four faces of the same thing. A mind locked in rigid patterns, running the same destructive loops on repeat. The fix isn't just willpower. Pollan points to something more fundamental: morning sunlight, movement, sleep, and in therapeutic settings, the emerging science of psychedelic medicine, which appears to do something no antidepressant can. It breaks the habit at the root. New thought patterns become possible. New behavior follows. That's where real healing starts. Sign up for the Greatness newsletter: http://www.greatness.com/newsletter Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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What if depression, anxiety, addiction, and OCD aren't four different problems — but one? Michael Pollan breaks down the science of a rigid, stuck mind and why the habits keeping you functional might also be the ones keeping you trapped.

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