FunFacts Posted June 24, 2014 Posted June 24, 2014 The common uninspired conclusion is: "we grow up under some kind of persistent stress, and just seek it out, because we're just conditioned to it... it's how we know how to live" --stress from relationships, stress from struggling with money... But that's missing the actual process entirely. The nature that discussion of this topic tries to capture is ESCAPE from internal stress:---Conditioned into Sympathetic Nervous System Dominance (SNS-Dominance)---The body/mind is stuck in a stress-state. It's perpetual misery. ---AH! But when someone or some EXTERNAL stress / struggle is busying one's attention, consuming one's environment, then that internal storm is drowned out. ---THIS externalizing is what is conditioned -- in childhood the problem and the solution are often the same person or situation. That's the "addiction". This "stress addiction" places the afflicted person in the EYE of his/her internal storm. Effectively "projecting" that state-of-mind / body onto another, or out into the world, in some situation. Your thoughts? ... LIKE drug addition: stress addiction is "relief" from torment. though not really relief at all, just delaying misery, and reaffirming it. UNLIKE drug addiction: the problem is the original solution. --Drugs aren't a natural reaction to emotional stress. Unless you're introduced to that sort of "relief" it doesn't come to mind. What's natural is the mind and body pointing us toward emotional projection, as a way to INVOKE THE EYE OF THE STORM (I like that!). That's this "stress addiction" phenomenon....... and perhaps a specific manifestation of this is "stockholm syndrome".
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