How To Heal Addiction By Understanding What It Really Is | Gabor Maté

如何通过理解其本质来治愈成瘾 | 加博尔·马泰

The Daily Motivation

2025-11-19

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Leave an Amazon Rating or Review for my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy! Check out the full episode: https://greatness.lnk.to/1849 "Addiction is never a choice and it's not some kind of genetic disease, which that is total nonsense. What it actually is, is an attempt to solve a problem in your life." - Gabor Maté Gabor Maté doesn't sugarcoat it. When he asks what addiction gave you, he's not interested in shame or judgment. He wants you to see the truth: you were trying to escape something. Lewis admits he felt trapped throughout his entire childhood, and Gabor names it immediately. That's what addiction is for. It's for people who feel imprisoned, who need an escape from pain they didn't ask for. Gabor shares his own struggle with workaholism, driven by a desperate need to prove he had the right to exist, that he was worthy of love. These aren't moral failures. They're survival responses to trauma that got embedded in childhood, and they've been following you ever since. Here's what changes everything: addiction isn't about what's wrong with you. It's about what happened to you, and what you've been trying to solve ever since. Gabor walks through why virtually everyone in a room would raise their hand if asked whether they have an addiction by his definition, because most of us are trying to escape something we couldn't control. He's clear that while rare spiritual moments in nature can sometimes spark healing, most of us need self-awareness, support, connection, and guidance. This conversation strips away the myths about addiction being a disease or a choice, and reveals the trapped child underneath who's still trying to break free. If you've been waiting for that miraculous moment to heal, Gabor's message is direct: don't wait. Get the help, because you have a much better chance that way. Sign up for the Greatness newsletter: http://www.greatness.com/newsletter Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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  • Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

  • How long does it normally take for someone when they realize this is unhealthy,

  • this thing I'm doing, this addiction is not good for me, until they actually give it up?

  • Is there any data on that?

  • I couldn't answer that one.

  • I think it's a highly variable and individual issue.

  • It has to do with what resources they have to heal.

  • It has to do with what support they have.

  • It has to do with what cost their habit is exacting on their lives.

  • It has to do also with some belief that there's a part of us that's actually healthy and we can get in touch with it.

  • There has to be a co-combination of factors and it's very individual.

  • It also depends, of course,

  • the degree of trauma a person suffered and and addictions are always about

  • like you've heard my definition of addiction and i'm sure

  • if i asked you like if i asked them from talking to a thousand people put your hands up

  • if according to my definition you get an addiction virtually everybody in the room will put their hands up maybe there'll be two liars who but not 998 and then i asked them Not what was wrong with the addiction,

  • but what was right about it, what did you get from it?

  • So if I asked you that, so you've had your behaviors, if I asked you,

  • I don't care what it was too, but if I asked you what did you get from it, what would that be?

  • You get some type of relief, you get some type of pleasure, you get some type of, yeah.