Dax Shepard
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
That's why I like your book.
Someone can get your book and go through this.
The purpose of writing the book was sort of like to put the power into hands of anybody who wants to understand it and treat it.
You have techniques for modifying negative thoughts.
That's great.
Social medicine, we just talked about that.
Some things that could help that will weirdly downriver affect pain is like better boundaries, creating healthy social connections, healing trauma.
These things all impact your experience with pain.
My other curiosity was, again, I brought up AA.
AA has abysmal success numbers.
Is that true?
It's in the, like, 30%.
But... I did not know.
Relative to the other treatments, it's an absolute miracle.
You can look at it one of two ways.
If you want to just go, like, only 30-some percent of people who go there end up getting long-term sobriety, sure.
But versus the alternative is, like, single digit.