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Addict Thinking

16 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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A short YouTube monologue by Amber Hollingsworth ("Addict Thinking") describing how addictive thinking biases attention toward negative, partial narratives that encourage relapse. Amber challenges viewers to notice and confront these automatic negative thought processes rather than accepting the one-sided story addiction provides.

Addiction wants you to constantly focus on the negative. It's going to feed you a narrative that will lead you back into your addictive behaviors. In most cases, it's just showing you a part of the picture and not showing you the whole picture. So I'm not telling you to just fill your head with sunshines and rainbows and be some kind of, like, complete optimist who's just, like, totally lying to themselves all the time. But I am challenging you to confront some of those automatic negative thought processes.