: Reflect on how your mood and life have changed after the abstinence period.
: Test your new relationship with the stimulus and adjust as needed. Self-Binding Strategies Dopamine Nation _ Finding Balan - Lembke, Annazip
: Observe the discomfort and cravings during the withdrawal period without judgment. : Reflect on how your mood and life
: Repeated exposure to high-dopamine stimuli leads the brain to "downregulate" its own dopamine receptors. This requires more of the stimulus just to feel "normal," a state known as anhedonia (the inability to feel pleasure from everyday things). Dopamine Nation _ Finding Balan - Lembke, Annazip
The central metaphor of the book is that our brain processes pleasure and pain on a .