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Encore: S02 Ep. 17 - Hilary’s Shopping Addiction

Dear Therapists with Lori Gottlieb and Guy Winch

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Addiction

In active use, it's like, what is there to lose? I was just about the next score. People get addicted to not having people get addicted to that sense of things are not going to work out for me. And so all of a sudden you have to let go of that idea. It's a whole self concept of going from i'm some one for whom nothing will work out, i'm someone who can have agency in the world. There's comfort in the familiarity of discomfort.

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