Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence by Anna Lembke

9 reviews

eliasaurus's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.0

First and foremost, this isn't a self help book. It presents information in a simplistic and accessible way, so it's definitely pop sci.

The book's first section is its strongest, with a good overview of what dopamine does and its role in addiction. However, the section about pain went on longer than it needed to, and the section about shame seemed completely out of place. This section is probably responsible for the reviews stating that Lembke is overly favorable towards AA and the 12 steps. I don't think she's recommending AA as much as stating that it worked for many of her patients. Still, this part of the book is the shakiest and could have been omitted entirely.

On the whole, the book is very readable and I learned some new info. I also enjoyed the patient stories (and the author's note about obtaining consent for their use). But it's not amazing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Drug use, Animal cruelty, and Alcoholism

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

slipppers98's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

2.5

Warning: Animal cruelty detailed!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, and Sexual content

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Alcohol, and Suicidal thoughts

mjadeh's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Self harm, Addiction, Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Eating disorder

adrianna_0623's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Addiction, Chronic illness, and Mental illness

relisel's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring slow-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Addiction, and Mental illness

karenmariscalo's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

3.75

Very insightful, however it lost me at times.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Drug abuse, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

kkarinh's review against another edition

fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Suicide attempt, Sexual content, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Drug use, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Alcohol, and Mental illness

Minor: Eating disorder, Dysphoria, Medical content, Body shaming, Car accident, Chronic illness, Infidelity, and Panic attacks/disorders

nisk's review against another edition

informative inspiring fast-paced

3.0

I like the stories told by the author about her patients. Unfortunately, I was looking forward to activities that I can take and try from the book. Very little information on solutions that I can try except for what the others (patient) already did. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction

Moderate: Addiction and Alcohol

Minor: Drug use

srosen930's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.75

This book did a good job backing up its main points with real life examples, which always helps me solidify a point.  

I was a little concerned that when the book got to the part of pressing on the "pain" side of the "pleasure - pain scale" that the author didnt condemn harmful self harm techniques.  Like cold showering is a good example of pressing on the pain side, but when talking about cutting, I would put a disclaimer there.  

The book ran a little long for me, but it wasn't too long or wordy.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Mental illness

Moderate: Sexual content and Suicide