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toasty228yesterday at 7:31 PM3 repliesview on HN

It takes five minutes to just stop being depressed, it takes 5 minutes to just stop being addicted

What works for you, and me actually, doesn't work for most people, humans are complex things


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dinfinityyesterday at 7:49 PM

> It takes five minutes to just stop being depressed, it takes 5 minutes to just stop being addicted

Would you place all the responsibility of drug addiction on drug dealers?

Yes, their practices are predatory, but it is essential to remind the addicts that ultimately change comes from within themselves. They need to change something.

securicatyesterday at 7:39 PM

That’s pretty insensitive to people suffering from mental illness. To compare sitting and doomscrolling on social media with something that’s chemically out of balance in a persons body is… a choice.

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