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The Brain of Addiction: Understanding the Impact on Decision-Making

2 Jun 2023 · 1 min

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A short excerpt of a YouTube talk by Amber Hollingsworth describing how addiction alters perception and decision-making: people can simultaneously "get" something intellectually yet fail to connect that understanding to their actions, creating a disconnect that drives compulsive choices. The speaker likens this to adolescent single-mindedness—'blinders' that prevent seeing consequences.

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They don't see things the way that you see things and it's really hard to describe because it's like on one level they get it and on another level they totally don't get it and it's like they have both things happening in the brain at the same time but there's no bridge of connection in between. And most of us have had a little piece of experience with this if we think if we think back to it like you know have you ever maybe when you were younger and you were a teenager and you treated your parents really crappy or you chose to run off with some boy even though you know you hurt someone else or something like that we've all had that experience where we were just so hell bent on something like our mind made up and focused and determined we're going to get what we're going to get that it's like we have blinders on and we don't see the ramifications the consequences of.