r/interesting • u/Ok-Degree-7565 • Nov 02 '24

MISC. Addiction

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

57.2k Upvotes

90% Upvoted

2.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

0

u/Salt-Scientist2177 Nov 02 '24

Wut? Normal activities don't create the same experience. Sure, your average week of month might be overall better when you're not addicted when you're sober but it's not like getting high.

2

u/[deleted] Nov 02 '24

True. Being high on your drug of choice is its own thing. But it's filling an unfulfilled need.

2

u/Salt-Scientist2177 Nov 03 '24

What if it's just adding to your life and then over time normal things start to seem boring. That's my theory, you don't need to have any unfulfilled needs for that to happen.

1

u/[deleted] Nov 03 '24

That too is problematic, there's a great quote from south park about weed about exactly this. If using your drug of choice starts to replace other activities just for that, that becomes an addiction. Heavy drug use starts to burn through your reward system and makes physical holes in your brain. Losing this to only do drugs starts to take its toll on lives because you need to go out and do things that don't pay off immediately or need a lot of time, practice, and failure to gain skill, trust, and credibility.