Short excerpt from a YouTube video by Amber Hollingsworth arguing that addiction often causes or exacerbates depression and anxiety, so treatment should address addictive behaviors first rather than assuming underlying mood/anxiety disorders are primary.
Another thing that can happen. A lot of people have the idea, well, they're addicted because this depression is underlying, this anxiety is underlying. And so if we can fix this, that addictive behavior will stop, when actually it's the reverse almost all the time. It's like, even if they were depressed before, I guarantee you, like, most of it now is coming from the addiction, and we have to address the addictions. It's sort of going at it backwards, I guess. Absolutely.
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