Addiction
Compulsive use that continues through the harm it causes — and the argument about whether it is a disease, a choice, or a response to pain.
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- DS
Derek Sivers quoted
Our readingRemoving your own ability to retreat is how you make yourself follow through on a hard change.
Their wordsI forbid myself from anything too tempting or addicting. I keep no cookies in my home. To prevent myself from falling off the wagon, I strap myself to the mast.
↗Why I let go of my U.S. citizenshipsive.rs 1st of 2 in this piece
- 6 years earlier
- GM
Gabor Mate quoted
Our readingChildhood trauma is the template for every addiction, including the socially rewarded ones.
Their wordsChildhood trauma is the template for addiction-any addiction. All addictions are attempts to escape the deep pain of the hurt child, attempts temporarily soothing but ultimately futile.
↗BEYOND DRUGS: The Universal Experience of Addictiondrgabormate.com
- GM
Gabor Mate quoted
Their wordsIt is time to realize, then, addiction is neither a choice nor an inherited disease, but a psychological and physiological response to painful life experiences.
↗BEYOND DRUGS: The Universal Experience of Addictiondrgabormate.com
- GM
Gabor Mate quoted
Their wordsto treat the addiction, which is a symptom, without treating the pain that underlies it is to deal in effects rather than in causes, and therefore dooms many to ongoing cycles of suffering
↗BEYOND DRUGS: The Universal Experience of Addictiondrgabormate.com
- 8 months earlier
- DS
Derek Sivers quoted
Our readingThe feeds businesses design to be addictive are obstacles to anyone whose aim is to make something.
Their wordsEvery business wants to get you addicted to their infinite updates, pings, chats, messages, and news. But if what you want out of life is to create, then those are your obstacles.