Amber Hollingsworth breaks down addiction as a virus that needs specific conditions to survive: shame, secrecy, and self-pity. Remove those three ingredients and the addiction dies. She frames it as a problem you can actually solve by changing what feeds it.
What does addiction need in order to thrive and live? There are a few ingredients that fuel any addiction. It doesn't matter what the addiction is. And if you take these fueling ingredients away from it, it doesn't live. Like a bacteria needs certain environmental conditions to flourish. Addiction is no different. It's like a virus. It's like a contagious virus. And it needs certain conditions in order to. To continue to grow and flourish. And when you understand what those conditions are, one of the most strategic things you can do is take away the fuel. If there's nothing to feed it, it dies out. It goes away because it can't live any longer. And to break it down as simply for you as possible, we're going to look at those three ingredients, and I've given them all names with something s so that you can remember them. Those ingredients are shame, secrecy and self pity. Those.
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