From smart phones and junk food to more serious issues like alcohol dependency, author Tally Fosh’s new book “Hooked” offers a helpful guidebook to dealing with addiction.
Whether it’s junk food, our phones, alcohol, or even love, most of us are addicted to something. “There is a lot of stigma around the word ‘addiction’, but we all use things to change the way we feel,” Talitha Fosh, author of the new book Hooked: Why we are addicted and how to break free, tells me. Addiction exists on a spectrum, and there are varying degrees of severity, but Fosh’s book serves as a good manual for those seeking to understand the mechanics behind the disease.
“Obviously, therapy and different support groups can be a huge help, but I think the main thing is to trial a period of abstinence and see what happens,” she says. “You need 30 days, because homeostasis needs to occur to alter the brain’s chemistry. If we’re constantly using something, we get hits of dopamine—which is responsible for pleasure and pain .
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