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Why Addiction TURNS People SELFISH #recoveryjourney #addictionrecovery #addictiontreatment

5 May 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, Amber Hollingsworth explains that as a person progresses deeper into addiction, they become increasingly selfish—not because they are inherently selfish, but because addiction consumes growing amounts of energy, time, and effort. She uses a treadmill metaphor to illustrate how the constant effort to sustain the addiction leaves little capacity for other life responsibilities, which consequently begin to slip away.

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The thing about addiction is the further you go into addiction, the more selfish you become. And I don't say that to mean that you're a selfish person. I say that to mean that addiction, no matter who you are, it makes us all selfish because we have to constantly keep up this cycle. And it takes more and more energy to keep up this addiction. It's like running on a treadmill, and eventually it takes up so much energy and time and effort. We don't have any energy and time and effort to take care of the other things in our life. And so our responsibilities start to seep through the cracks.