Dr. Gabor Maté
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The School of Greatness
The Real Reason You Can't Stop Your Addiction | Dr. Gabor Maté
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The School of Greatness
The Real Reason You Can't Stop Your Addiction | Dr. Gabor Maté
Now, what could I do as a one-year-old?
The School of Greatness
The Real Reason You Can't Stop Your Addiction | Dr. Gabor Maté
I could do two things.
The School of Greatness
The Real Reason You Can't Stop Your Addiction | Dr. Gabor Maté
Or as an infant going through all that.
The School of Greatness
The Real Reason You Can't Stop Your Addiction | Dr. Gabor Maté
First of all, how do I deal with all that stress?
The School of Greatness
The Real Reason You Can't Stop Your Addiction | Dr. Gabor Maté
I tune out.
The School of Greatness
The Real Reason You Can't Stop Your Addiction | Dr. Gabor Maté
I tune out.
The School of Greatness
The Real Reason You Can't Stop Your Addiction | Dr. Gabor Maté
I become absent-minded as an adaptive mechanism.
The School of Greatness
The Real Reason You Can't Stop Your Addiction | Dr. Gabor Maté
A coping mechanism.
The School of Greatness
The Real Reason You Can't Stop Your Addiction | Dr. Gabor Maté
Exactly.
The School of Greatness
The Real Reason You Can't Stop Your Addiction | Dr. Gabor Maté
55 years later, I'm diagnosed with ADHD, which is characterized by tuning out.
The School of Greatness
The Real Reason You Can't Stop Your Addiction | Dr. Gabor Maté
Is it a disease?
The School of Greatness
The Real Reason You Can't Stop Your Addiction | Dr. Gabor Maté
The heck it's a disease.
The School of Greatness
The Real Reason You Can't Stop Your Addiction | Dr. Gabor Maté
It started as a coping mechanism.
The School of Greatness
The Real Reason You Can't Stop Your Addiction | Dr. Gabor Maté
I'm also diagnosed with depression.
The School of Greatness
The Real Reason You Can't Stop Your Addiction | Dr. Gabor Maté
Why?
The School of Greatness
The Real Reason You Can't Stop Your Addiction | Dr. Gabor Maté
Because in that environment, I had to push my feelings down in order not to burden my mother, who was already burdened enough.
The School of Greatness
The Real Reason You Can't Stop Your Addiction | Dr. Gabor Maté
Create more peace and more, yeah.
The School of Greatness
The Real Reason You Can't Stop Your Addiction | Dr. Gabor Maté
So I took that on, so I pushed on my feelings.
The School of Greatness
The Real Reason You Can't Stop Your Addiction | Dr. Gabor Maté
I depressed my feelings.