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• MataVatnik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Addiction means you have a strong impulse for it, but at the end of the day you’re still choosing.

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  • zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That is not, at all, the meeting of addicted.

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    • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Addiction is the inability to stop doing something.

      With the acknowledgement that addiction is a disease, what’s happening is a part of the brain cannot stop choosing to do something, for a variety of legitimate chemical and habitual reasons

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      • zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        “Cannot stop choosing”

        Come on.

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      • MataVatnik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        As someone who has had physical and psychological dependency on substances I guess I’ve never been addicted

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• Robin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t think those are mutually exclusive. However, it takes energy and willpower to make a choice that goes against the nature of the addiction.

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