Grinch Torture Endurance

I have mentioned to people repeatedly that when my life becomes too stressful, my behaviour becomes erratic... that I don't sleep consistently and that I engage in all sorts of indulgent behaviour like eating when I'm not hungry and drinking booze to calm myself and coffee to do the opposite.

This kind of thing is not an accident. There have been studies done where addiction is a normal reaction to abnormal conditions. Below is a reference from someone who CHOSE to behave this way intentionally and was taught how to do it by someone who instructs people on how to survive torture.

This demonstrates that what is typically called "addiction" is just a normal reaction to pain. We tend to see the indulgent behaviour as the problem and try to change that... instead of looking at the root cause of it and focusing on changing that (ie. remove a person from the stressful conditions and their addictions disappear because they are no longer necessary).

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"Addiction is a response to pain."

https://reallove.com/addiction/

Jim Carrey's story about how he was taught to endure a situation is a good demonstration of the cause of addiction and why it is a normal reaction to abnormal conditions. Essentially, he was taught to intentionally indulge in addictive things as a way to distract himself from the fear inducing experience of being "buried alive" in the Grinch character make up application process that happened every day and lasted up to 8 hours each time.

"They locked themselves in a room for the majority of the weekend, where the instructor taught the comedian different methods that CIA agents employ to frame their thinking, distract themselves from pain and discomfort, and how to develop the mindset required to overcome the panic Carrey felt inside the costume."