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Am I Addicted to My Phone? (w/ Anna Lembke) | Monday Advice

May 18, 2026 · 1h 29m

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0:00It's become fashionable when thinking about our phones to joke around about being hooked on these devices.

0:07Oh man, I'm so addicted to my Insta, we say with a grin on our faces.

0:14But should we be taking this possibility more seriously?

0:17What is the line between using our phones too much and suffering from an actual psychopathology?

0:23And if we are addicted, what would it mean to treat it?

0:26Not just half-hearted tweaks here and there, but to actually try to find real freedom from this problematic behavior.

0:33Well, it's Monday, so that means it's time for an advice episode of this show, which seems like the perfect opportunity to dive deeper into this issue.

0:42Now, to help me, I'm bringing on a guest that I've long been trying to book, Dr.

0:46Anna Limpke.

0:48Anna is a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic.

0:55In 2016, she published a book titled Drug Dealer MD about the opioid epidemic.

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