Getting Addicted to Negative Emotions

I think there's some kind of like a hormone or a neurological sort of spark that happens with this negative emotion and that's why we repeat the stories. We just love to live in that other one of like victim sad you know mentality. Our receptor sites get habituated to these things so we'll find a way to give ourselves the emotional state that will feed our bodies addiction to these negative things. If we also similarly if we live in a positive state we're addicted to those positive things, he says.

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