Addiction

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Claim

Addiction is the worse kind of Escapism is withdrawing from difficulty through distraction and avoidance, it is when we lose our ability to exert Self-control is the capacity to regulate behavior against impulses, and become an object, a slave in the hands of something else.

Explanation

It is more than just Temptations, it is when your entire being is enslaved to that thing.

Usually addiction starts from an emotional crisis, a need for solace becomes a dependency that laches unto us, which makes the situation worse because it rubs us of our capability to solve our problems on our own, leading to a Harmful actions reinforce themselves through self-perpetuating feedback loops.

Why it matters

Addiction is hard to undo. Usually it requires a form of a Symbolic fresh starts break entrenchment and enable change, a drastic and immediate change that removes us (or the addiction) from our environment, but this is only half the picture. After changing our environment, we have to change our habits, and only with time we could break free from it's influence.

Examples

For example, to be addicted to alcohol is not the same as saying that you enjoy drinking it, but rather feel compelled to do it even when you suffer from it, that you can't think of anything else.

Supporters

When addicted, we become helpless, we lose control over our lives, and even after realizing that we are addicted, it is still not enough to break free from it. We feel like victims under the addiction's power, unable to break free.

Opposers

Addiction rubs us of our capability to reach Emotional resilience enables managing hardship and maintaining composure and solve our problems on our own.

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