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A review by shansometimes
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence by Anna Lembke
3.0
This was...fine? It relied heavily on the stories of clients the author has treated, and I wasn't a huge fan of how those stories were presented. The tone felt infantilizing, the accents seemed disrespectful (I read this via audio), and the author came off a little judgy, prudish, and maybe even biased against psychiatric medications.
The author eventually acknowledged that medication can be life-saving but questioned whether it can be dangerous to medicate every type of pain or discomfort—which I think is fair. Some solutions and suggestions for balance were presented in the book, but shock factor examples and moralistic takes outweighed them.
The author eventually acknowledged that medication can be life-saving but questioned whether it can be dangerous to medicate every type of pain or discomfort—which I think is fair. Some solutions and suggestions for balance were presented in the book, but shock factor examples and moralistic takes outweighed them.