Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

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

10 reviews

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

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, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Alcohol

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: 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

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

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

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

kkarinh's review against another edition

fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

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

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

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

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, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, and Alcohol

Moderate: Sexual content and Suicide