Mick Hunt and a guest break down how addiction differs from preference. They point to two behavioral red flags seen in over 1,500 people: inability to stop for 30 days and habits that keep intensifying. Cognitive signs include brain fog and numbness; relational ones are lack of intimacy and dropped productivity.
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How do you know when you are addicted versus it something that you like.
Or enjoy? Well, I think there's sort of like the convoluted symptoms. So there's things like brain fog, a lack of intimacy, kind of a numbness, lack of productivity. It could also be because your diet sucks or you don't sleep well or it's hard to really know for sure. A couple that we've observed very consistently in the 1500 plus people that we work with directly. The first thing is that they really cannot go any extended period of time without it. Very telltale sign that you're addicted. You know, like, it's one of the best things you can say if somebody tells you, I don't think I'm addicted. It's like, okay, go 30 days without it. And usually you can tell like they feel that tightness in their chest just from you, like suggesting it. Another indicator is that the person's viewership habits intensify or the nature of what they watch starts to kind of evolve.