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by toasty228 45 days ago
It takes five minutes to just stop being depressed, it takes 5 minutes to just stop being addicted

What works for you, and me actually, doesn't work for most people, humans are complex things

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> It takes five minutes to just stop being depressed, it takes 5 minutes to just stop being addicted

Would you place all the responsibility of drug addiction on drug dealers?

Yes, their practices are predatory, but it is essential to remind the addicts that ultimately change comes from within themselves. They need to change something.

That’s pretty insensitive to people suffering from mental illness. To compare sitting and doomscrolling on social media with something that’s chemically out of balance in a persons body is… a choice.
The parent was obviously being sarcastic to prove the point through comparison.