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A nervous system stuck in chronic activation, braced and flooded and unable to settle, is in real distress, and distress demands relief, and the brain will reach for whatever delivers relief fastest. The drink, substance, and compulsive scroll are the most efficient off-switches a dysregulated system could find, and it reaches for them for the same reason a hand pulls back from a flame, automatically, because the underlying state is intolerable. This is why fighting the habit directly so reliably fails. You are trying to take away the body's only known exit while leaving the emergency that created the need for an exit completely intact, and a system in distress will always, eventually, reach for relief again, no matter how much resolve you bring to denying it. Steady the underlying state, teach the body to sit in its own discomfort without needing to flee it, and something remarkable happens. The reach stops because the emergency that drove it is finally over. The habit becomes unnecessary. To your power and freedom, Stan Taylor stantaylor.com