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AMP #115 Dr. Gabor Mate on Addiction, Stress, and the Way Out

Aubrey Marcus Podcast

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Is Addiction a Choice or a Primary Brain Disease?

I think I'm addicted to stress in a certain way. It makes me feel like now I'm really in the fight. So then it actually gives some meaning to your life. Yeah. Some purpose some engagement. Now other people might say it's who's my pain. But whether it's what you said which is meaning and purpose and value or whether it's anything else we see that the addiction is not the primary problem. It's an attempt to solve a problem. And your problem is lack of value. Yep. Lack of purpose lack of meaning and lack of maybe vital engagement with life.

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