Receive Thrilled To Death: How The Endless Pursuit Of Pleasure Is Leaving Us Numb Prepared By Archibald D. Hart E-Text

Helpful!!

This book helped me tremendously, Insightful, practical. Not too complicated for a common person, Loved the spiritual bent. Thank you! This was a required book for a Human Development class, but it was an easy read and a good self help type book,.

Good thoughts about how we as a society use pleasure as an excessive means to happiness when, in reality, it's ruining our brains, A fascinating exploration of the profound loss of pleasure in our daily lives and the seven steps for restoring it, Pleasure. We know what it feels like and many of us spend our days trying to experience it, But can too much pleasure actually be bad for us Yes, says Dr, Archibald Hart, clinical psychologist and expert in behavorial psychology, Backed by recent brainimaging research, Dr, Hart shares that to some extent, our pursuit of extreme and overstimulating thrills hijacks our pleasure system and robs us of our ability to experience pleasure in simple things.
We are literally being thrilled to death, In

this insightful book, Dr, Hart explores the stark rise in a phenomenon known as anhedonia , an inability to experience pleasure or happiness, Previously linked only to serious emotional disorders, anhedonia is now seen as a contributing factor in depression specifically nonsadness depression and in the growing number of people who complain of profound boredom.
This emotional numbness and loss of joy are results of the overuse of our brain's pleasure circuits, In Thrilled to Death , Dr, Hart explains the processes of the brain's pleasure center, the damaging trends of overindulgence and overstimulation, the signs and problems of anhedonia, and the seven important steps we must take to recover our wonderful joy in living.
.