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Want To Stop An Addictive Behavior?

6 Jan 2023 · 1 min

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A short YouTube monologue by Amber Hollingsworth prompting viewers who struggle with addiction to ask whether the addictive behavior still 'works' for them. She explains that addictive behaviors often help initially but become progressively less effective and ultimately cause more harm than benefit, encouraging honest self-reflection about costs versus gains.

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If you're struggling with an addiction, ask yourself this one question. Does this really still work for me? Because, you see, at the beginning, when we start engaging in addictive behavior, it usually does do something for us. It helps us solve a problem or helps us feel better about something. But as the addiction grows, it becomes less and less and less effective. And when we're really honest with ourselves and we look at it, we realize it's causing way, way more problems than it's helping. So ask yourself, is it really solving the problem that I want it to solve? And if so, is it worth all of the negative to keep it going?