Short excerpt from a YouTube video by Amber Hollingsworth arguing that people with addictions often create a 'villain' (a person blamed for their suffering) which functions as an "emotional currency" or justification for addictive behavior, allowing them to avoid examining their own actions.
When someone has an addiction, they need a villain the same way people think of it as like, they need money to get the substance. People always just think about that, which is true, but they also need the emotional justification. So just the same as they need the money, they need the emotional currency, which almost always involves a villain. So it's my boss, my parent, my spouse, my sister who's always the hero, whatever. They always have this other person that they put everything out on, and they focus on that person being a villain as a way of not looking at their own behaviors and looking at doing.
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