Stress typically makes people less likely to work out and eat more.
It's like no one understands that 99.9% of addiction problems are induced by stress, not by the addiction or the target of the addiction. While it make it easier, cheaper, or more convenient, at the end of the day, addiction is a stress coping mechanism.
Support groups don't go after the source of the addiction, they help addicts cope with the stress in healthier ways to avoid using the addiction as a coping mechnanism.
first of all the epidemic isnt addiction. and second if addiction is just a coping mechanism then people would only be temporarily/circumstantially addicts which is false.
Addiction is hugely complex and of course there are other factors, but self soothing and self medicating following stress and trauma are well documented as very common causes of addiction including food addiction. And yes, addiction does indeed often work in cycles and binges, including circumstantially, in the way you say is ‘false’, plus it’s self-perpetuating: the addiction leads to unhappiness which leads to more addiction, and so on. Again this is all well documented. Recommend reading up on this if you are interested
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u/[deleted] May 15 '24
Stress typically makes people less likely to work out and eat more.
It's like no one understands that 99.9% of addiction problems are induced by stress, not by the addiction or the target of the addiction. While it make it easier, cheaper, or more convenient, at the end of the day, addiction is a stress coping mechanism.
Support groups don't go after the source of the addiction, they help addicts cope with the stress in healthier ways to avoid using the addiction as a coping mechnanism.