Sublime

Gone

devoid

As a clinician later described it to her, addiction always ends up as a “narrowing of repertoire”: life contracts to a fixation on what you can’t live without, and the rhythms of a day, a life, are engineered to secure this thing that never satisfies, is never enough.

bereft.

Aphaeresis is the process whereby a word loses its initial sound or sounds. 'Twas and knock are two examples. Sounds are lost from the ends of words through apocope, which literally means 'cutting off'. You can see it in the dangling useless b of a tail trailing, dumbly, behind lamb, the silent b of a lame dumb lamb where b is a tuft of wool left

The fundamental addiction is to the fleeting experience of not being addicted. The addict craves the absence of the craving state. For a brief moment he’s liberated from emptiness, from boredom, from lack of meaning, from yearning, from being driven or from pain. He is free.

bereft,