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Childhood trauma is the template for every addiction, including the socially rewarded ones.
Childhood trauma is the template for addiction-any addiction. All addictions are attempts to escape the deep pain of the hurt child, attempts temporarily soothing but ultimately futile.
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Addiction is neither a choice nor an inherited disease, but a response to pain: the question is not why the addiction, but why the pain.
It is time to realize, then, addiction is neither a choice nor an inherited disease, but a psychological and physiological response to painful life experiences.
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Treating an addiction without treating the pain underneath it is treating an effect rather than a cause.
to treat the addiction, which is a symptom, without treating the pain that underlies it is to deal in effects rather than in causes, and therefore dooms many to ongoing cycles of suffering