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A Guide to Dopamine Fasting: How to Change Your Reward Methods and Find Inner Balance

This practical guide was created as a supplement to the more comprehensive and successful book, Dopamine Nation (published as Dopamin by Triton in 2022). The author starts from the fundamental idea that abundance itself is a stressor, contributing to the growing number of addictions, cases of depression, anxiety, and suicides worldwide. She introduces the concept of the paradox of plenty: the richer a country is and the more accessible treatment for mental disorders becomes, the unhappier, more depressed, and more anxious its inhabitants are. Constant exposure to instant gratification changes the brain. We suffer from the stress of excess. This guide is for anyone who decides to change the ways they reward themselves. It will help you better understand the issues of pathological pleasure and pain. Thanks to numerous interactive exercises and inspiring examples, you will be able to more accurately identify the addictive substances and behaviours you are considering limiting or changing. You will get instructions on how to plan, start, and successfully complete a dopamine fast, work towards resetting the reward pathways in your brain, and ultimately lead a healthier, more content, and more fulfilling life.