By Gabor Maté, Danny Glover — 2015
Addiction, whether to drugs or other behaviors . . . is always a compensation for the sense of being devalued as a human being.
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It is not unusual to feel emotionally numb after or during a very stressful event. A person may also notice a temporary feeling of dissociation or disconnection from the body and the outside world.
I know what it's like to feel disconnected — not only from yourself, but from others and the world. It's a painful place to be. I've lived with that nagging sense of things being not quite right. I've felt the restlessness of wanting more from life, without knowing exactly what I was looking for.