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Do You Have Anxiety?
People with anxiety compulsively hate uncertainty and they will do anything to avoid it. So worry is a major distractor from this old alarm if you had trauma, especially as a child. And that's another reason why I think trauma in childhood makes us more likely to be addicted in adulthood because these old circuits have been revved up for us. Rather than going into that place of calm and peace in our prefrontal cortex, we automatically gravitate to sort of pain relief.