[crawfordcomeaux]

In my experience as a recovering behavior addict, the difficulty partially lies in a lot of cultural concepts around addiction, recovery, and learning that run counter to what science tells us about learning. "Instantaneous recovery" is described as a random chance event, as opposed to possibly the outcome of someone who's got a better grip on how to grow because they were missing a single piece of wisdom that, when acquired or acted on, led to cascading network effects in the brain.