2025-10-10
7 分钟Hey friends, it's Rosie.
Welcome to Radio Headspace.
So the other day, it was one of those afternoons.
You know the kind.
I was back to back with meetings, trying to stay on top of messages.
Slack pings, 47 tabs open, my brain was done.
No spark, no clarity, just system overload.
So I did what a lot of us do when we hit that wall.
I reached for my phone, just a quick scroll,
just two minutes I told myself, something light to reset, a little palette cleanser.
An hour and 27 minutes later, I was now sitting on the couch, phone hovering over my face,
eyes glazed, watching a cat playing with the toy to the sound of a remix Taylor Swift track.
And I felt terrible, not just guilty, but unmotivated, like I had just overdosed on nothing.
And that moment made me think of a conversation I recently had with Dr. Anna Lemke.
She's a psychiatrist, addiction specialist, and author of the incredible book Dopamine Nation.
And something she said really stuck with me.
She explained that we're living in a time where dopamine isn't being released in small,
earned doses, like our brain evolved for.
Instead, we're hit with the constant fire hose of dopamine,
through food, social media, scrolling, shopping, even just clicking.