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Dr. Gabor Maté

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The School of Greatness
The Real Reason You Can't Stop Your Addiction | Dr. Gabor Maté

There has to be a cool combination of factors.

The School of Greatness
The Real Reason You Can't Stop Your Addiction | Dr. Gabor Maté

And it's very individual.

The School of Greatness
The Real Reason You Can't Stop Your Addiction | Dr. Gabor Maté

It also depends, of course,

The School of Greatness
The Real Reason You Can't Stop Your Addiction | Dr. Gabor Maté

the degree of trauma a person suffered and addictions are always about like you've heard my definition of addiction and I'm sure if I asked you like if I asked from talking to a thousand people put your hands up if according to my definition you get an addiction virtually everybody in the room will put their hands up maybe there'll be two liars who but 998 and then I asked them

The School of Greatness
The Real Reason You Can't Stop Your Addiction | Dr. Gabor Maté

Not what was wrong with the addiction, but what was right about it.

The School of Greatness
The Real Reason You Can't Stop Your Addiction | Dr. Gabor Maté

What did you get from it?

The School of Greatness
The Real Reason You Can't Stop Your Addiction | Dr. Gabor Maté

So if I asked you that, so you had your behaviors.

The School of Greatness
The Real Reason You Can't Stop Your Addiction | Dr. Gabor Maté

If I asked you, I don't care what it was to, but if I asked you, what did you get from it?

The School of Greatness
The Real Reason You Can't Stop Your Addiction | Dr. Gabor Maté

What would that be?

The School of Greatness
The Real Reason You Can't Stop Your Addiction | Dr. Gabor Maté

You get some type of relief.

The School of Greatness
The Real Reason You Can't Stop Your Addiction | Dr. Gabor Maté

Me?

The School of Greatness
The Real Reason You Can't Stop Your Addiction | Dr. Gabor Maté

No, but I mean, what kind of person needs to escape?

The School of Greatness
The Real Reason You Can't Stop Your Addiction | Dr. Gabor Maté

Scared person is somebody who's imprisoned, isn't it?

The School of Greatness
The Real Reason You Can't Stop Your Addiction | Dr. Gabor Maté

Somebody who's not free.

The School of Greatness
The Real Reason You Can't Stop Your Addiction | Dr. Gabor Maté

Who's trapped.

The School of Greatness
The Real Reason You Can't Stop Your Addiction | Dr. Gabor Maté

Yeah, somebody who's trapped, exactly.

The School of Greatness
The Real Reason You Can't Stop Your Addiction | Dr. Gabor Maté

And I know in your book on toxic masculinity, you talk about being trapped.

The School of Greatness
The Real Reason You Can't Stop Your Addiction | Dr. Gabor Maté

Trapped is the very word you use.

The School of Greatness
The Real Reason You Can't Stop Your Addiction | Dr. Gabor Maté

Yes.

The School of Greatness
The Real Reason You Can't Stop Your Addiction | Dr. Gabor Maté

That's the whole point.