Dr. Gabor Maté
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Now, if you have a behavior that's ongoing, but it has no negative consequences, it's not an addiction.
It's a passion, it's a pleasure, it's a habit.
It's a healthy habit.
So for me, it's not an addiction.
And also, a healthy habit, a person, if it no longer works for them, they can give it up.
So for me, there's no healthy addiction.
There's no healthy addiction.
In fact, the word addiction comes from a word for slavery.
So there's no...
There's no healthy slavery.
Interesting.
So addiction, what is the root of addiction?
The word?
Yeah.
So in Roman times, an addict was somebody who was assigned to another person to serve them because they owed them money and they couldn't pay it back.
An addictus.
Yeah, an addictus was like an indentured slave who had to work off the debt.
So that's where the word actually comes from, is a form of slavery.
Absolutely, absolutely.
You have no choice.