Chasing Pleasure, Finding Meaning: What I Got Wrong in 7.5 Years of Sobriety
Most people don't relapse because they wanted to drink. They relapse because they were still chasing pleasure — just in a legal package.
Anthony had 7.5 years of sober time before he picked up. In this episode, he breaks down the real reason long-term sobriety unravels: the war between pleasure and meaning, and why the recovery world is full of people white-knuckling a life they were never trained to actually want.
Covered in this episode: – The hedonic treadmill and why every "high" eventually feels like baseline – Anna Lembke's pleasure-pain balance (from Dopamine Nation) – Bruce…
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