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Anna Lembke

Stanford University School of Medicine

Anna Lembke is a Professor of Psychiatry at the Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. Her work centers on addiction medicine, psychiatry, and dopamine-related behaviors, and she is the author of 'Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence'. Her published research focuses on substance use disorders, examining treatments for opioid and alcohol dependence, associated cardiovascular risks, and the use of machine learning and social media data to monitor addiction trends.

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1:57:15contradictedlowDopamine Expert: Doing This Once A Day Fixes Your Dopamine!

Women are substantially more vulnerable to love addiction or pathological relationship dependency than men.

"Women, however, are much more vulnerable to love addiction, which is also real, right? The pathological, compulsive falling in love with partners and then getting into these relationships that are really dramatic and not healthy" (said at 1:57:15)

The claim that women are substantially or "much more vulnerable" to love addiction compared to men is not supported by psychiatric and empirical literature. "Love addiction" is not an officially recognized diagnosis in the DSM-5 or ICD-11, and systematic reviews highlight an absence of standardized epidemiological data. Furthermore, recent empirical studies evaluating psychological vulnerability models (such as impulsivity, psychological distress, and emotion dysregulation) for love addiction show structural invariance across genders, and meta-analytic evidence indicates that associations with key drivers like anxious attachment are not uniquely higher in women (and can be stronger in male-predominant samples).

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