The Connection Between Addiction and Loneliness

addiction arises from feeling disconnected you know it's a dis-ease around disconnection our core longing is to belong. We're actually latching on to substitute ways to feel the pleasures of connectedness and then suffering actually deepens as we pursue those substitutes. Then we feel judgment and shame around our behaviors and then that in turn makes us feel even more separate addiction spiking this again  is not news it's spiking but there's something else too that I want to name which is that we are intentionally and regularly being exposed to substances and products that are super addictive all of us.