Shahroo Izadi

We're all a number of steps away from doing something we regret.

And from that point, I don't actually have any data of only having had one.

So why should you expect that you can't?

Right?

The difficulty when you apply that to substances that you want to be moderate with is that it starts messing with the can I just have one thinking which you don't need for your foundational thing that you want to not use.

You need a program if you.

Yeah.

And do you know what, Alice Davina, lots of people have that with alcohol too and they don't become dependent.

They just say it's easier for me because the things that would put more people in the addiction vulnerable or all or nothing black and white category are increasing by the day.

Stress levels.

reasons to feel ashamed, ADHD diagnoses, other neurodivergent diagnoses, ultra-processed food, fasting being a version of restriction that we went like, all these things are coming.

You were just talking about neurodivergence there as part of that category.

Can you just explain to me about that?

We are all a certain number of steps away from becoming dependent on something, right?

If we kept using it over and over again, physically, psychologically, habitually.

Some of us are fewer steps away because of how we respond to dopamine and how impulsive we are.

And most profoundly, from what I've learned writing this book, how much shame we have.

That tends to be what brings us all together and makes that thinking of, first of all, my executive function is just not working right now.

I don't care about the future.

Right now, I need to feel differently.