Addiction as a coping strategy ‘Addictions represent, in their onset,’ says Gabor Maté in his book The Myth of Normal, ‘the defences of an organism against suffering it does not know how to endure. In other words, we are looking at a natural response to unnatural circumstances, an attempt to soothe the pain.’ Through that lens, addiction is a sooth

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Stop listening to Gabor Mate. This is what Big Pharma wants you to think. Studying Gabor Mate's work for the last 5 years helped me overcome anxiety and trauma, and changed my life (and helped dozens do the same). Here are the 7 transformational concepts I learne... See more