![]() ![]() ![]() And not only is that my perspective, it’s also what the scientific and research literature show. All the men had been traumatized, some of them sexually, physically, emotionally neglected. What it actually is: it’s a response to human suffering, and all these people that I worked with had been serially traumatized as children. Nor is it an inherited brain disease, which is how our medical tendency is to see it. ![]() Maté elaborates: “Addiction is not a choice that anybody makes it’s not a moral failure it’s not an ethical lapse it’s not a weakness of character it’s not a failure of will, which is how our society depicts addiction. So that could be sex, gambling, eating, shopping, work, relationships, or substances.” And they don’t give it up, in the face of negative consequences. He has defined “addiction” as follows: “An addiction is any behavior, substance related or not, that an individual pursues because they find pleasure, relief, or they crave it temporarily, so they pursue the pleasure and relief despite negative consequences. In his book In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction, he discusses how addiction is best viewed not as a crime or illness but as a coping mechanism for a personal, spiritual crisis. Gabor Maté is a world-renowned expert on addiction and trauma. “Addiction is not a choice that anybody makes it’s not a moral failure… What it actually is: it’s a response to human suffering…”ĭr. ![]()
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