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tweet by Johann Hari: The core of addiction is not wanting to be present in life, because pour life is too painful a place to be. This is why imposing more pain or punishment on a person with an addiction problem actually makes their addiction worse.

  • Flying Squid
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    48 months ago

    Do people with PTSD who end up self-medicating because they can’t find another thing that helps them need to ‘own it and not point fingers,’ or can the fact that they were in a war or raped regularly by a family member or whatever caused their PTSD be a big part of the issue? Do people with severe mental illness lack personal responsibility? Maybe. But they aren’t going to gain it either what with being severely mentally ill.

    • @oldbaldgrumpy@lemmy.world
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      28 months ago

      You are talking about an extremely extremely small percentage of addicts. The vast majority do not come from any situation you mentioned. I stand by what I said.