Most People with Addiction Simply Grow Out of It
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Most People with Addiction Simply Grow Out of It
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Re: Most People with Addiction Simply Grow Out of It
#2I don't know if I'm the only one experiencing blurry font, but it distracts me from reading anything said.
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#3I don't know if I'm the only one experiencing blurry font, but it distracts me from reading anything said.
Me too.
There is an annoying text-shadow: 0px 0px 1px
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#4I don't know if I'm the only one experiencing blurry font, but it distracts me from reading anything said.
Blurry in firefox here, not blurry in chrome (win7, desktop lcd).
Re: Most People with Addiction Simply Grow Out of It
#5> This is one of many reasons why I prefer to see addiction as a learning or developmental disorder, rather than taking the classical disease view.
I always thought that myself but is the first time that I see an article on it.
Most, if not all, addiction studies/reports/data/whatever doesn't count the people that overcome their addiction on their own, or at least on their own without causing major problems.
I would be really glad if this was discussed more often.
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#6I've noticed that articles like this almost always fall back on implicit "brain as computer" metaphors: "systems involved in love and sex are coming online," "impact of the drugs on the developing circuitry itself." Anyone know of an article that discusses this? It seems to be everywhere in writings about the brain but rarely acknowledged. As for the article itself - I think it has a valid point but is overly flippant about the risks of addiction and relapse later in life. Just because it's statistically less likely than in youth doesn't mean addiction is a "developmental disorder" as the author suggests.
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#7I've noticed that articles like this almost always fall back on implicit "brain as computer" metaphors: "systems involved in love and sex are coming online," "impact of the drugs on the developing circuitry itself." Anyone know of an article that discusses this? It seems to be everywhere in writings about the brain but rarely acknowledged. As for the article itself - I think it has a valid point but is overly flippan…
It's explicitly named in Philosophy of Mind:
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#8This can't be true if we're still going to use the (useless) metaphor of demonic possession to describe every aspect of substance abuse.
Re: Most People with Addiction Simply Grow Out of It
#9I grew out of my addiction to wanking. I was at it all the time as a teenager. Nowadays I often go up to an hour between tugs.
Re: Most People with Addiction Simply Grow Out of It
#10I've noticed that articles like this almost always fall back on implicit "brain as computer" metaphors: "systems involved in love and sex are coming online," "impact of the drugs on the developing circuitry itself." Anyone know of an article that discusses this? It seems to be everywhere in writings about the brain but rarely acknowledged. As for the article itself - I think it has a valid point but is overly flippan…
My take is that it's that people 'understand' how computers work on the broad scale, but don't have any idea how electricity and chemicals can make our brains work. Also, to most people, computers are just our attempt at making brains.
I'm betting both of those.