Lewis Howes

A crutch is not a long-term strategy.

No, it's not a long-term strategy.

And if you get addicted to a crutch long-term, that's not good.

Like, when do you get off the crutch?

It's like, how long should they be allowed to be used for until they say, all right, we got to get to the root, not just get the Band-Aids.

But how many people do you think actually make the leap off the bridge into deeper healing work from either ADHD or depression medication?

How many people actually go deeper and get off of it?

Oh, it's not profitable to be off of drugs.

That can't be good.

Then you have to stay on it because now you're depressed and then you have to take depression medication to go off of it.

So how did you learn how to not use medication while having ADHD and depressive thoughts?

What do you think is the root cause of bad addictions in life?

Like alcohol, drugs, you know, I don't know, porn vaping.

Like, what do you think is the root cause?

What does neuroscience say is the root cause of a bad addiction?

You said you had ADHD, you had depressive thoughts, you thought about taking on your life.

So there was something underneath.

You weren't like, I'm a happy person and I'm going to do this addiction.

Exactly.

So yes, you were pressured.