Eric Zimmer
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 26 Jun
Eric Zimmer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I think all addicts will report something similar.
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That's a good way to describe it.
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So yeah, that's how, I mean, that's how it changes over time.
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I mean, for most addicts, the pleasure that they got in the beginning isn't the same.
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It is, like you said, it's more a relief of a lot of just very awful and uncomfortable feelings.
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Because the addict's brain is changing too, right?
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You're messing up your neurochemistry.
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your ability to feel good normally is severely impaired.
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That's what makes early recovery sometimes so difficult for people.
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It's like you take the thing away, but you're left with all the crap.
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of how your brain works and the stories you tell yourself and your fears.
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I mean, you are overwhelmed by them, which is why for people with a real, you know, what we would call addiction, help is so critical because doing it alone, I just think from the depths of I was, there's no, I don't see any possible way on earth.
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I would have found my way out of that by myself.
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Well, 100 percent.
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I mean, when you for me, when I had sacrificed everything that mattered in life to this thing, of course, that is a serious reckoning.
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I mean, I had burnt my life to the ground.
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You know, it's hard to go a lot.
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And I'm not saying this in like some like, oh, look at me way.
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It's harder to go much lower.
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You can end up in prison or you can end up dead.
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