Get rid of addiction

Lessons of the Balance. How to get rid of addiction ?

• The relentless pursuit of pleasure (and avoidance of pain) leads to pain.
• Recovery begins with abstinence.
• Abstinence resets the brain’s reward pathway and with it our capacity to take joy in simpler pleasures.
• Self-binding creates literal and metacognitive space between desire and consumption, a modern necessity in our dopamine-overloaded world.
• Medications can restore homeostasis, but consider what we lose by medicating away our pain.
• Pressing on the pain side resets our balance to the side of pleasure…

Excerpt From: Anna Lembke. “Dopamine Nation.”