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What If Addiction Isn’t a Disease, But a Survival Strategy?
Let’s get real — watching someone you love struggle with addiction is brutal. It’s chaotic, frustrating, heartbreaking. You’ve probably spent sleepless nights wondering:
- Why do they keep doing this to themselves?
- Why won’t they just stop?
- What am I supposed to do?
Most families are told that addiction is a chronic brain disease, a battle of willpower, or a moral failing. But what if none of that is true?
What if addiction is not actually about substances at all?
Mitch Y. Artman recently wrote a thought-provoking article about how Borderline Personality Disorder should really be called Abandonment Obsession Disorder — because that’s the real issue underneath the behaviors. That got me thinking:
What if we’ve been looking at addiction all wrong?
Addiction Is Not the Problem — It’s the Solution (At First)
This might sound controversial, but hear me out: Addiction starts as a solution before it becomes a problem.
No one wakes up and says, You know what would be fun? Losing everything I care about to addiction.
