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Everything in life is a managed addiction. Balance is needed in all things. Ensuring your addictions are taking you in a direction you find productive is critical. Relationships, entertainment, reading/not reading, eating, social engagement, the internet, pets; everything is ultimately brain chemistry that creates addictions.
N... no?
That's a complete misunderstanding of chemical additions. Caffeine is a stimulant with chemical withdrawals.
You don't have chemical side effects for any of those things besides food.
Humans are literally entirely chemistry at all times. Literally anything that makes you happy/comfortable releases dopamine in your brain. Even dopamine can become addictive if applied too often, the 'withdrawal' would be feeling down cause you're not as happy as usual.
You can be happy or not happy with relationships, which can cause your (misguided) definition of addiction to dopamine, and almost no part of that scenario involves external chemicals.
And all of that is just one example. You really need to attend a high school chemistry and/or biology class.
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Press_releases/2004/09_29_04.html#:~:text=The%20researchers%20identified%20five%20clusters,and%20muscle%20pain%20or%20stiffness.
I would love to see what the withdrawals are for swimming.
Yes, I will probably be bummed. But I won't get a mood disorder over it unless I'm already unstable, or vomit. I'll be sad not having something I like, yeah. Withdrawals from a stimulant is different than "I'm feeling sad chemicals because the thing I like is gone"
It's crazy that people are so determined to say nothing is wrong being addicted to a drug that they are refusing to admit there is a difference. I can also replace anything with other things. If I can't swim, I can do other things I enjoy.
Who ever said anything about swimming? Are you just trying to deconstruct the points I made that you don't understand? I mean you clearly have some kind of disorder, disassociative at least. Enjoy being constantly lauded for your understanding of sciences (or lack thereof).
Things I like = won't make me vomit or cause me physical harm for not doing it
Caffeine = will cause physical harm/vomiting for not doing it.
If you insist you're right, I can't make you believe.
Also backfire effect is clearly in effect, me posting proof I'm right will just make stubborn coffee drinkers believe I'm wrong because of weird brain things. So that last post with evidence probably won't sway anyone.
Lol wtf is serotonin?