Opinion | Matthew Perry and the Loneliness of Addiction
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Opinion | Matthew Perry and the Loneliness of Addiction
addicts are bored or frustrated problem-solvers who instinctively contrive Houdini-like situations from which to disentangle themselves when no other challenge happens to present itself. The drug becomes the reward when they succeed and the consolation prize when they fail.
Anna Lembke • Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
The artist and the addict both wrestle with this experience of exile. They share an acute, even excruciating sensitivity to the state of separation and isolation, and both actively seek a way to overcome it, to transcend it, or at least to make the pain go away.
Steven Pressfield • Turning Pro
The painful part of loneliness is the realization that most people are ass-kissers and friendship is rare. Likewise, people feel the most alienated when they suddenly sober up to the fact that most of their desires are herd-driven, that most of them are no where close to the truth, if they even have a clear enough sense of what that is that matters... See more
Sherry Ning • You're Overspending Because You Lack Values
Addiction is a disconnection from yourself. Every Friday I get tired from trying to make myself see what’s really happening, and I jump into an addiciton to try and forget who and where I am
Disconnection from yourself is born of something present that you think you can’t face.
There is apparently an epidemic of loneliness in the United States. Everyone from Kristen Radtke to Hillary Clinton has written about it. Explanations are far-ranging but mostly come down to the same things: our communities have splintered, work has consumed our lives, our social contract has broken down, the internet has destroyed our ability to... See more