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I wouldn't call it a disease...

18 Apr 2023 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube video (Amber Hollingsworth) in which the speaker argues that addiction should not be labeled a disease. She acknowledges brain changes with addiction but frames these as the brain working as designed—seeking pleasure and motivation—and suggests modern abundance can misdirect that system into counterproductive pathways.

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And yes, there are some brain changes, some actual changes in the way your brain works. When you develop an addiction. I definitely wouldn't call it a disease, and I don't even know that I would call it and say it's messed your brain up. I think it's your brain doing exactly what it was designed to do. It is designed to seek pleasure. It's designed to keep you motivated. And it's that way on purpose. It's just that now that we live in a society where we have so much abundance, we've sort of tricked our brain into giving us that feeling that we're supposed to get somewhere else from these sources, which can lead us into a sort of counterproductive pathway, if you will.