Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

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

13 reviews

pvp_niki's review against another edition

This explains all the red flags I felt.
https://www.sluggish.xyz/p/the-myth-making-of-dopamine-nation

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Religious bigotry, and Classism

devynreadsnovels's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, and Dysphoria

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

mjadeh's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

2.75

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Content Warnings

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

okayshea's review against another edition

dark informative reflective slow-paced

1.5

it always makes me feel icky and voyeuristic reading therapists tell their patients' stories, though i know obviously the patients gave their consent and i can see the value of sharing these real and vulnerable things people go through to create better understanding and give authentic examples. BUT this author came across judgmental of pretty much everyone she discussed in this book, and seemed to often look down on others struggling with addiction, even as she tried to relate personally by sharing her troubled relationship to romance novels. there were just too many cases where, to me, she felt smug and like she knew all the answers and didn't seem interested in actually learning what her patients saw of what they were going through -- and that's from her own retelling of these interactions. but maybe that's just me and that type of attitude might be necessary sometimes in helping someone with a serious addiction.

like other reviewers said, dopamine nation isn't really about modern technology or social media as much as the book advertises itself to be, and is more just about overcoming addiction and how dopamine works in general. there wasn't much scientific information in here that you couldn't gather from just watching a few self-help type youtube videos about dopamine or "dopamine resets". lembke also uses this book to make a few broad claims with flimsy support, so that turned me off too from finding much trust or value from this text. it just showed up on libby and was short, so i picked it.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Body shaming, Fatphobia, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Self harm and Stalking

adrianna_0623's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

drdolphinphd's review against another edition

emotional informative slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Murder

relisel's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring slow-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

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

wanna_read's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Medical content

Minor: Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Grief

melina333's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

2.5

Das Buch hatte einige Interessante Passagen und handelt davon, wie es gelingen kann eine Sucht zu bekämpfen. Viele Kapitel fand ich leider sehr langweilig, da immer wieder (in meinen Augen uninteressante) Geschichten aus dem Leben der Autorin und dem Leben ihrer Patienten ausgebreitet werden. Anstelle dieser ganzen Beispiele hatte ich mir mehr wissenschaftlichen Inhalt erhofft. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Mental illness

Moderate: Self harm and Suicide attempt