• @[email protected]
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    411 hours ago

    In my crash course to new psych techs about addiction I list off all the common legal addictions which goes something like this:

    • Caffeine
    • Nicotine
    • Alcohol
    • Gambling
    • Pornography
    • Social Media
    • Binge Eating
    • Non-suicidal self-injury
    • And depending on the location, Marijuana

    I tell them that mine is caffeine and my partner’s is nicotine, then we talk about motivational interviewing and then I move on to dementia.

    • @200ok
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      38 hours ago

      Is it fair to say that no one is without some sort of addiction?

      • @[email protected]
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        47 hours ago

        Iirc correctly in one of the John Dies at the End books the mc speculates that the puritans are getting high off their feelings of superiority.

        • @200ok
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          13 hours ago

          Tweak off the weak!