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• GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Cannot stop choosing”

    Come on.

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    • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨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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      • zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Again: “compulsively” “helplessly”.

        Look, if you’re not interested in admitting that words have meaning, you’re not arguing in good faith and I’m done with you. Have a good one.

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  • MataVatnik@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Psychological dependency is described in my comment

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