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Originally Posted by WhateverDude
Having that kind of mentality towards addiction does help some people get out of it. Not saying it works for everybody or it's okay to bag on people that it doesn't work for but it does help for some.
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Sure, some people benefit from that mentality. But for the vast majority of addicts, giving them advice along the lines of "Just commit and do it" is like a slap to their face. It's completely useless (do you really think they're
not trying?) and only serves to dishearten them. In fact, giving people advice like that often causes them to fall further into addiction, as they truly start to believe that it's completely their fault for not immediately seeing results, and that they lack the strength to get out of it. In reality, beating an addiction is much more complicated than this advice makes light of, and it shouldn't be reduced to a "get over it" mentality.