But, there is also a part where we doing the pleasure-creation activities, bcoz of which we tend to create an addiction or hangover for it. The moment we stop doing it we suffer from anxiety & depressive thoughts.

The CYCLE G

An effective solution is to give yourself a break from all social media apps, virtual games & digitalised dopamine inducing activities to restore a level balance.

Dopamine Fasting

Slow Sane is lot better than destructive fast﻿

The advice is to gradually, transition yourself from the gaming habits to No-Gaming Zone.Immediately changing might create mental issues.From 7 Days to 3 Days a weekFrom 12 hrs to 2 hrs a day just in the morning.

Self Binding

We do pleasure-creating activities: Dopamine is released but, as the time passes, we then tend to take a break : Down-regualtion of Dopamine, where our pleasure & pain balance normalizes.

The CYCLE 

With multiple resources for generation we tend to gain plethora of diseases & mental catastrophes.According to WHO, the frequency of early age suicides has tremendously surged since last 7 yrs.

Dopamine Overload

The pleasure we feel is our body's natural psychological response to pain. Fasting, a cold shower, exercise are all similar mechanism activities.So, the pain inducing activities are indirectly pleasure inducers.

Pleasure From Pain

There is a succinct balance between our pleasure & pain cycle regulated by dopamine.

Homeostasis 

Anna Lembke is professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. A clinician scholar, she has published more than a hundred peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, and commentaries. She sits on the board of several state and national addiction-focused organizations, has testified before various committees in the United States House of Representatives and Senate, keeps an active speaking calendar, and maintains a thriving clinical practice. In 2016, she published Drug Dealer, MD – How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), which was highlighted in the New York Times as one of the top five books to read to understand the opioid epidemic (Zuger, 2018). Dr. Lembke recently appeared on the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, an unvarnished look at the impact of social media on our lives. "Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence" (Dutton/Penguin Random House, August 2021), an instant New York Times Bestseller, explores how to moderate compulsive overconsumption in a dopamine-overloaded world. To learn more about Dr. Anna Lembke and her book, please visit https://www.annalembke.com/ Please consider supporting After Skool on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AfterSkool Visit our site at https://www.afterskool.net/ Check out the new After Skool prints! https://after-skool.creator-spring.com/ Or send us an email at afterskool100@gmail.com

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Anna Lembke is professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. A clinician scholar, she has published more than a hundred peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, and commentaries. She sits on the board of several state and national addiction-focused organizations, has testified before various committees in the United States House of Representatives and Senate, keeps an active speaking calendar, and maintains a thriving clinical practice.

In 2016, she published Drug Dealer, MD – How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), which was highlighted in the New York Times as one of the top five books to read to understand the opioid epidemic (Zuger, 2018). Dr. Lembke recently appeared on the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, an unvarnished look at the impact of social media on our lives. 

"Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence" (Dutton/Penguin Random House, August 2021), an instant New York Times Bestseller, explores how to moderate compulsive overconsumption in a dopamine-overloaded world.

To learn more about Dr. Anna Lembke and her book, please visit https://www.annalembke.com/

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