Sublime

To escape from boredom, some boys begin to employ their first addictive behavior as they become glued to the television, the Internet, video games, or overeat. These activities help distract from the mental and emotional distress of feeling bored and isolated.

I discovered that everyone beat me, regardless of race, color, or religion. I was simply the most appallingly bad chess player who ever lived, and, as time went on, I just stopped playing chess.

I tell myself I’m just going to play video games the rest of my life.

If you want to see what a person who is totally removed from relational interaction looks like, examine the brain of someone who endured prolonged solitary confinement in prison.

We unintentionally passed on our family insanity or distorted thinking.

“I fucked up,” he told me. Another player saw Madison stacking cards to the bottom of the deck. Looking the man in the eye, Madison knew he was caught. Without saying a word, he bolted for the door. But it was locked—no way out. Madison got the shit kicked out of him. The men left him on the sidewalk, bloody and bruised, with a broken leg and colla

Olds and Milner called it the pleasure center. A lever in the cage allowed the rats to send a small electrical signal directly to their nucleus accumbens. Do you think they liked it? Boy howdy! They liked it so much that they did nothing else. They forgot all about eating and sleeping. Long after they were hungry, they ignored tasty food if they ha