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 agoAddiction 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
MataVatnik@lemmy.world 6 months ago
GBU_28@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Psychological dependency is described in my comment
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 6 months ago
“Cannot stop choosing”
Come on.
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.
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.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Lol yes. Choice has meaning. Choice being dictated by compulsive behavior, or dominant chemical signaling is still choice. Like, your brain is doing it. Choice is not just “what color shirt will I wear today”, it is far deeper.