DOPAMINE NATION

INSTANTNEW YORK TIMESandLOS ANGELES TIMESBESTSELLER“Brilliant . . . riveting, scary, cogent, and cleverly argued.”—Beth Macy, author ofDopesickThis book is about pleasure. It’s also about pain. Most important, it’s about how to find the delicate balance between the two, and why now more than ever finding balance is essential. We’re living in a time of unprecedented access to high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli: drugs, food, news, gambling, shopping, gaming, texting, sexting, Facebooking, Instagramming, YouTubing, tweeting . . . The increased numbers, variety, and potency is staggering. The smartphone is the modern-day hypodermic needle, delivering digital dopamine 24/7 for a wired generation. As such we’ve all become vulnerable to compulsive overconsumption.InDopamine Nation, Dr. Anna Lembke, psychiatrist and author, explores the exciting new scientific discoveries that explain why the relentless pursuit of pleasure leads to pain . . . and what to do about it. Condensing complex neurosc

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美國暢銷20萬本成功戒癮的經典之作揭露人們在慾望國度中的瘋狂歷險、所付出的代價，以及，如何平安歸來。滑手機、瘋購物、狂自慰，我們身處誘惑太多的時代，早已成癮卻無法自拔。這本書要談成癮的爽、戒癮的痛，以及爽痛之間如何取得平衡。 滑手機、熬夜追劇、大吃大喝、瘋狂消費，成為辛苦一天之後必備的自我慰勞；然而，我們已經網路成癮、購物成癮，或是酒癮、性成癮上身，卻不自知。 這不是我們的錯，而是多巴胺（dopamine）的問題。 多巴胺是一種神經傳導物質，要讓大腦釋放多巴胺很簡單，只要你做一件事情能讓自己開心就行了，像是上網、吃喝玩樂、盡情購物。不過，多巴胺會逐漸減少，需要更多的慾望、更強的刺激才行，也因此讓人愈來愈痛苦。 如果我們發現自己上網時間愈來愈長、暴飲暴食的次數愈來愈多、喝下肚的酒愈來愈烈、購物次數愈來愈頻繁，很有可能已經成癮。 安娜‧蘭布克醫師（Dr. Anna Lembke）是史丹佛大學醫學院精神科暨成癮醫學教授，也是史丹佛戒癮診所的主任，她以協助成癮者戒癮的多年經驗，在徵得病患同意之下，將她協助酒癮者、毒癮者、性成癮者如何戒癮的案例納入本書，詮釋慾望的來源、成癮的問題和戒癮的過程。 蘭布克醫師指出，在我們的腦中，爽快和痛苦如同翹翹板的兩端，當一端受到過度刺激，另一端就會翹起，多巴胺分泌的多寡影響爽與痛的平衡，一旦打亂，就會導致爽痛失衡。 她坦言，自己曾經有一段時間沉迷於閱讀網路言情小說，這個經驗讓她更了解，多巴胺導致我們在成癮的爽快與戒癮的痛苦之間擺盪。她發現，如果「痛」是為了「爽」而必須付出的代價，「爽」就是「痛」過之後兌換到的獎勵。 蘭布克醫師在書中整理出一套方法協助成癮者有效戒癮，這八個步驟的英文首字剛好對應多巴胺 DOPAMINE，包括：資料（Data）、目的（Objectives）、問題（Problems）、禁慾（Abstinence）、正念（Mindfulness）、洞見（Insight）、下一步（Next steps）和實驗（Experiment）。 身處充滿各種刺激的環境之中，究竟我們要如何不受到多巴胺過度控制，在成癮的爽快和戒癮的痛苦之間取得平衡？答案就在這本書。

防止成癮，從自己做起，我們就能讓這整個世界煥然一新。預估到了2040年，日常的休閒時間在美國會達到7.2小時，工作時數則會僅剩3.8小時。人類生活的更富足、更新奇，需要更強的刺激才有快感。換句話說，就是人們會比現在更容易上癮。我們活在一個基本生存需求獲得充分滿足的時代，用在食、衣、住、行、育、樂的可支配所得、下班後的休閒時間都是如此。然而，生活過度富足本身就是一種壓力源，導致人們成癮、憂鬱、焦慮和自殺的比率上升。各種調查報告都告訴我們，人類比起三十年前，更不快樂、更憂鬱，也更焦慮。令人費解的是，一個國家愈是富有，心理健康治療愈是普及，國民就愈不快樂、憂鬱和焦慮。本書作者蘭布克醫師將這個現象稱為「富足的矛盾」（Plenty Paradox），生活過度豐足讓人們持續暴露在唾手可得的快感之中，導致大腦發生了改變。她提醒我們，當我們在做喜歡的事情的時候，像是追劇、滑手機、打電玩，大腦會釋出少量的多巴胺這種獎勵的神經傳導物質，讓我們感覺到「爽」。但是，神經科學發現在大腦裡，「爽」和「痛」是在同一個區域處理。大腦非常努力地想要維持「爽」和「痛」的平衡。一旦這個翹翹板偏向了某一邊，我們的大腦就會設法倒向另一邊，試圖恢復翹翹板的平衡。DOPAMINE是多巴胺的英文，也是一組英文字首縮寫，書中的每一章都對應DOPANINE裡一個不同的字母，它們分別是：Data（資料）、Objectives（目的）、Problems（問題）、Abstinence and Asceticism（禁慾和苦行）、Mindfulness（正念）、Insight (and Radical Honesty)（病識感［和徹底的誠實］）、Next Steps（下一步），和Experiment（實驗）。本書希望提供「爽痛平衡」的資源，讓每個人都可以從自己做起，協助所有人在這個爽痛拉鋸環境中，找出自己的一條路。蘭布克醫師建議閱讀本書的順序是： 1.第一到第四章讀完並做完所有練習，然後再進行第四章中介紹的多巴胺齋戒； 2.在多巴胺齋戒期間，讀完第五和第六章； 3.在多巴胺齋戒的尾聲，讀完第七章和第八章。她建議讀者，這本實踐篇的任何一個部分，都沒有你必須要去完成的特定時間線，你完全可以自己決定自己的速度。做習題的時候，

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