Tim Ferriss
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And which I think is really, and Gabor Mate, I think, has the right framing on this.
It's before we ask why the addiction, we should ask why the pain.
Right?
And so I think a lot of that is undiagnosed... psychiatric disorders, right?
And... so that was always part of my experience, right?
This anxiety, this...
kind of OCD-like dysregulation and rumination, worrying, hypervigilance.
I was also very badly abused as a kid, not by my parents, but that's... We can get into that if you want.
But that turned everything up.
How were you abused?
I was sexually abused by a babysitter's son, like, weekly for a couple years.
By a babysitter's son?
Uh-huh.
How old?
How old were you?
Two to four.
Do you remember it?
Yeah, sadly.
Yeah, it'd be better if... It may be better if I didn't, but... So you take, like, out-of-the-box hardware that's already predisposed, and then you add some type of traumatic event like that.
It's not a great combo.