Reviews - Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

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Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

Anna Lembke

3.59 AVERAGE

satashii's review

3.5

challenging emotional informative fast-paced

ke_reads's review

I felt like it was regurgitating information I already knew.

brie2230's review

2.75

informative reflective medium-paced

Although this book gave me the impetus to finally delete the social media apps I scroll through excessively, in the end it’s more or less moral puritanism disguised as science. The author uses her credentials to make it seem like she is coming from a rational, scientific point of view, and then uses the kind of anecdotes you see in tabloids to cause scare/terrify you as if such bizarre, singular events had any statistical significance, and wasn't just meant to terrify or revile you.

The author attributes her love of romance novels and sexy vampires to be on the same spectrum as being an opiate addict or hooking yourself up to a masturbation machine for hours a day. In fact, everything that brings you any amount of joy that isn't "productive” should bring you shame and make you want to abstain. What a miserable way to live!!!