Amber Hollingsworth argues that addiction doesn't require prior trauma. Prolonged substance use alone rewires the brain, causing anxiety, sleep problems, and blunted pleasure. People then use drugs to cope with problems the addiction itself created.
Does it typically come down to? Like, it's a coping. Like it gets something stressful in their life or something they don't want to face or something happened that they're not really prepared to look at.
I mean, if you put an addictive substance in your body long enough, you're going to get addicted, period. End of story. Doesn't matter what's going on. Like, if you smoke cigarettes long enough, you're going to get addicted, right? If you put alcohol in enough long enough, you're going to have a problem. Like, it's the nature of the chemical. So even if you didn't have like huge trauma and stress before, as that addiction develops, number one, it changes all your brain chemistry and you have so much more anxiety and you don't sleep, right? So everything feels magnified. Plus your family's on your butt. Plus you're not functioning as well in any other thing that you do. Plus you've lost the ability to experience joy and happiness with anything else. So if you didn't have problems before, you do now, and now you're continuing to do it to cope with those problems.
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