🔼: [[💡 Vicious Cycle|Vicious Cycles]] ###### 🔑 Shame and addiction create a vicious cycle >"People think that [[🛡️ Addiction or Dependence|addiction]] causes [[💡 Shame|shame]]. No it doesn't. Shame causes addiction. The shame precedes the addiction." >— [[👤 Gabor Maté]] [[🔑 Our symptoms and illnesses are never our fault]]. Addictions can be difficult or even impossible for many to avoid because we are all constantly overstimulated and culturally have poor [[⭐️ Life Curation]]. We're exposed to things that can very easily become addictions before an addiction serves as a [[Protector Strategies 🛡️|Protector Strategy]]. - [[💡 Polarization#Polarizations Create Vicious Cycles|polarizations create vicious cycles]] [^1]: