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Unprocessed emotions lead to addiction

2 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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Addiction stems from unprocessed emotions and existential fear. The speaker argues that suppressing feelings traps them in the body, potentially causing physical disease, and emphasizes the importance of consciously feeling and acknowledging emotions rather than letting them fester.

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I struggle with this all the time because I really believe that we need to process our feelings and emotions and we need to process the past. I personally believe that addiction is really just unprocessed emotion and/or possibly a little existential terror, right? But it's really trying to push down these feelings. So I want to be someone that is willing to feel the feelings. I want to be present. I want to process that shit. I do not want it stuck in my body. I do not want it to cause disease in my body. And I'm not blaming Anyone that struggles with anything, I'm not processing, I'm just for myself. I have seen things get physically stuck in my body and had to be cut out in surgery. But then the question of, well,