Dr. Gabor Maté
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah, really.
And I would lie to my wife about it and I would neglect my patients.
And as soon as I left the store,
Thinking now I'm complete, my collection is full.
Half an hour later, I had to run back.
And as I described in my book, An Addiction in the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, I once left a woman in labor in a hospital to go get a symphony.
So that's an addiction.
Really?
Yeah, yeah.
Now, the interesting thing about addiction is that I wasn't using substances.
But I was looking for a chemical hit.
Dopamine.
Dopamine, yeah.
So I was on a dopamine fiend, you might say, and I get it through those particular behaviors.
And so that's what my addiction was.
How did I give it up?
Well, it took a long time.
Really?
Yeah, a lot of struggle, a lot of, you know, and finally I just realized that the cost was greater than the, in fact, you know,
In fact, if I started listening now to all the CDs that I have at home and did nothing but listen for the rest of my life.