somuch4food
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A great metaphor I heard once was this:
Think of your normal brain state as a cucumber. Once you get addicted your brain (or rather a specific pathway in your brain) gets pickled. This pickle (the pathway) can never turn into a cucumber again. You can never really use the activity you were addicted to like a healthy, non-addicted person again.
This obviously is only a metaphor, so it is limited in its accuracy, but it is true for a lot of addictions.
That's mostly true until you break free of what was causing the addiction.
Yeh I agree except according to OP his life is good and has nothing to escape from.
His current life is good, but he has baggage that he can't seem to totally shake off which triggers his relapses. I was also always having a pretty good life despite my addiction because I was hiding my problems and putting on a mask in social settings. The addiction would show itself when I was by myself with my insecure mind.