Gabor Maté says stop asking why someone gambles and start asking what pain made gambling feel like a solution. Addiction makes sense when you see it as a response to suffering, not a moral failure.
Don't ask why the addiction, ask why the pain. It's a line from Gabor Mate, and it quietly changes the question. Instead of asking why is gambling the problem, it asks what made gambling feel like the solution. And when you slow it down and you look at addiction that way, it starts to make more sense. Not morally or logically, but emotionally.
