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Why It's Hard To Control Addiction

25 May 2024 · 1 min

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Amber Hollingsworth (speaker) introduces how many factors beyond conscious will—trauma, childhood experiences, current states like hunger or mood, and subconscious biases—strongly shape decisions. She argues environment controls decision-making more than people realize, and says she will review research and offer ways to empower oneself (and support addicted loved ones) to gain more control over addictive behaviors.

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Like I said, we like to think we're in charge, but we're not nearly as in charge as we think we are. There are so many factors, like trauma, like your childhood experiences, like how your morning has gone, like whether or not you're hungry or not, about your subconscious biases. All these things impact how we make decisions. Our environment controls our decision making much, much more than you. And I like to think that it does. And I want to pull apart some of this. I want to tell you about some of this research. And then I also want to tell you how empower yourself to take more control, especially when it comes to addictive behaviors or having an addicted loved one.