{"product_id":"dopamine-addiction-how-i-got-hooked-on-being-connected-and-how-i-started-to-get-free-9798195117832","title":"Dopamine Addiction: How I Got Hooked on Being Connected and How I Started to Get Free","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Lawrence Watkins\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a book about a brain that lies to you, written by a man whose brain has lied to him\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eapproximately four hundred thousand times. Most of those lies were delivered through a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esmall glowing rectangle, and most of them began with the words you have a new\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enotification.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI want to say a few things up front. I am not a neuroscientist. I am not a psychiatrist. I am a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eman who, at thirty-eight, realized he had been holding his phone in the shower for several\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eyears, and decided this might warrant some investigation. The investigation took longer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethan I expected. It is still going.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere I cite scientific research in this book, and I cite a lot of it, because the science here is\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egenuinely thrilling once you stop being scared of it and I have tried to be careful. Where I\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edescribe my own experience, I have tried to be honest. The two are not always the same\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ekind of careful.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe protocol at the end of this book, which I call the WANT\/LIKE Audit, is something I built\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efor myself out of the research I read while trying to stop checking Facebook in elevators. It\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eis not a clinical treatment. It is a way of paying attention. If you are struggling with a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eclinical-grade addiction and drugs, alcohol, gambling, anything that is destroying your\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erelationships or your bank account or your safety: please go see a real doctor. The phone in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eyour hand can wait. Probably.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEverything in this book about my own life is true, except where I have changed names or\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecompressed timelines for the sake of not embarrassing my friends, my mother, or my high-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eschool chemistry teacher. He knows what he did.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47882916102295,"sku":"9798195117832","price":1084.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798195117832.webp?v=1781098036","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/dopamine-addiction-how-i-got-hooked-on-being-connected-and-how-i-started-to-get-free-9798195117832","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}