"Naturally I've seen patients who need less than four weeks to reset their reward pathway, and others who need far longer. Those who have been using more potent drugs in larger quantities for longer duration will typically need more time. Younger people recalibrate faster than older people, their bra"
"Sometimes, patients ask if they can swap one drug for another: cannabis for nicotine, video games for pornography. This is seldom an effective long-term strategy. Any reward that is potent enough to overcome the gremlins and tip the balance toward pleasure can itself be addictive, thereby resulting "
"Mindfulness is simply the ability to observe what our brain is doing while it's doing it, without judgment."
"The trick is to stop running away from painful emotions, and instead allow ourselves to tolerate them. When we're able to do this, our experience takes on a new and unexpectedly rich texture. The pain is stil there, but somehow transformed, seeming to encompass a vast landscape of communal suffering"
"Self-binding is the term to describe the way we intentionally and willingly create barriers between ourselves and our drug of choice in order to mitigate compulsive overconsumption. The key to creating effective self-binding is first to acknowledge the loss of voluntariness we experience when under "
"One form of self-binding is to create literal physical barriers and/or geographical distance between ourselves and our drug of choice."