• Tabula_stercore@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    You don’t “defeat” an addiction. You always will be an addict, just one that stopped using the substance.

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      4 days ago

      Ah youre correct. Im wrong. Sorry.

      Its more like you avoid the substance( like alcohol addiction or nicotine or whatever youre addicted to ) or the pracetice (whether that be gambling addiction or self-harming addiction or whatever) and find that it doesnt impact your life . You dont ever truly ‘defeat’ an addiction. You just significantly taper its impact to your life.