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by deepfriedchokes 975 days ago
Food is dopamine. If you’re struggling with cravings that’s your brain telling you it needs a reward to feel good, and if you need to take something to feel good, it’s because you don’t feel good.

Consider therapy. With so many distracting sources of easy dopamine in the modern world it’s easy to become emotional disconnected from oneself without realizing it.

Read Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke. She explains cravings like these and why they happen.