#33 Is It ADHD, or Are You Just in Late-Stage Capitalism?

08/08/2025 8 min Temporada 1 Episodio 32

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We live in a culture that glamorizes being “always on.”But behind the hustle, the hyper-productivity, and the constant stimulation is a nervous system in crisis. In this episode, I unpack how we confuse overstimulation with personality and why that confusion is burning us out.We talk dopamine loops, trauma responses, nervous system basics, and what it means to rediscover yourself beneath the noise.Episode source material:University of California, San Diego. (2020). How much information do we consume?Dana, Deb. The Polyvagal Theory in TherapyGabor Maté. The Myth of NormalNPR: “How constant dopamine stimulation rewires our brain”Psychology Today: “The Addictive Cycle of Doomscrolling”

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