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The Fallacy of Addiction

17 Apr 2024 · 0 min

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A brief conversational excerpt from the YouTube video 'The Fallacy of Addiction' (Amber Hollingsworth). The speakers argue that substances reduce a person’s resilience and clarity over time, making it hard for people (and their partners) to recognize addiction; they note functional success (jobs, relationships) can mask severe addiction and distort others' perceptions.

Sort of don't have as much resilience. They think the substance is helping, but the substance is actually making your resiliency, your ability to think clear, less and less and less. And so these are the reasons why it's so hard to get people to see the issue. And the functional part is the problematic part.
It is the problematic part. We see it constantly. And even we hear from them, like, I don't know why I'm here. Like, I have a great job, and my. My wife is just crazy. And then the other one of us meets with the wife. We're like, oh, that's the great, greatest wife ever. She's not crazy at all. He's a severe alcoholic.
Right. Well, she's probably crazy a little bit, but there's a reason.