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• zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “Cannot stop choosing”

      Come on.

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      • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You choose to walk a direction, you choose to look out a window. Choice is a critical component of being human.

        Addiction is the chemical overriding of the prioritization of choice.

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    • MataVatnik@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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      • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Psychological dependency is described in my comment

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