Dopamine Detox by Thibaut Meurisse

Dopamine Detox by Thibaut Meurisse, available here in Bengali translation, is a short, focused book on a problem most modern readers will recognise immediately: the constant pull of phones, notifications, video feeds, and social media, and the way that pull seems to make harder, slower work — reading a book, finishing a project, sitting with a thought — feel almost impossible.

Meurisse’s argument is that the brain’s reward system, governed largely by dopamine, has been recalibrated by digital habits to expect quick, frequent stimulation. The detox he proposes is not abstinence but a deliberate, time-limited reset: a few days of stepping back from the easy hits, so that the harder, more meaningful sources of satisfaction become accessible again.

The book is short by design — Meurisse believes that long self-help books often defeat their own purpose — and it is structured for readers who want to act on it rather than just read about it. The Bengali translation makes a useful international title accessible to a much wider readership.