Am I Addicted to My Phone? (w/ Anna Lembke) | Monday Advice

It's become fashionable when thinking about our phones to joke around about being hooked on these devices. Oh man, I'm so addicted to my insta, we say with a grin on our faces. But should we be taking this possibility more seriously? What is the line between using our phones too much and suffering from an actual psychopathology.

And if we are addicted, what would it mean to treat it? Not just half-hearted tweaks here and there, but to actually try to find real freedom from this problematic behavior. Well it's Monday, so that means it's time for an advice episode of this show, which seems like the perfect opportunity to dive deeper into this issue. Now to help me, I'm bringing on a guest that I've long been trying to book, Dr. Anna Limke.

Anna is a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. In 2016, she published a book titled Drug Dealer MD about the opioid epidemic, but if her name sounds familiar, it's probably because of her 2021 bestseller, Dopamine Nation. which looks at how addiction functions in the brain and takes particular aim at the potential for digital devices to become addictive. Now you may have seen Anna on her popular appearances on the Joe Rogan podcast, the Andrew Huberman podcast, and the Oprah podcast. You may have also seen her featured in the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma.

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