The Path to Enough

This week, we bring you the second part of our conversation on the perils of too much pleasure. Psychiatrist Anna Lembke explains the neuroscience behind compulsive consumption, and how it alters our brains. She also shares techniques she’s learned from her patients to overcome the lure of addictive substances and behaviors.

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fascinating

fascinating, especially the "everyday' struggles with depression, now I understand why they work (will that help motivate me? hoping so)

Surprising take on the pleasure principle

This is the second of two episodes on the role of dopamine in forming habits that typically diminish our life satisfaction over time. We learn that paradoxically the more dopamine our pleasure seeking behaviors generate, the less pleasure and more pain we experience. Search out the first episode if you wish, but in my opinion this hour sums it up. It turns out the ancients were right!