Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman
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Ep165 "What's a Doom Loop & How Do You Escape It?" with Jonathan Downar
59 minutes Posted Aug 3, 2026 at 10:00 am.
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Have you ever spent hours with a thought cycling around in your head? What happens when the brain continuously worries, craves, or replays something without finding the exit? Where does the feeling of being “done” come from? Might depression, addiction, OCD, and PTSD all share the same problem? Is mental freedom just the ability to change states? Join Eagleman with neuroscientist and psychiatrist Jonathan Downar to talk about doom loops and how we might break them.