Psychotherapeutic help may prolong the addictive behavior while therapist and client spend months or years trying to uncover nonexistent childhood experiences to explain the addiction. It is as if the therapist teaches the addicted person to think, “I have become addicted because of some personality defect or old psychological trauma. I must spend months, perhaps years, trying to identify and solve my psychological problems (and while all this goes on, I have an excuse to keep on being addicted).” From the standpoint of the addicted person, all the mind tricks and self-deceptions have one
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While tere can be false help, chilood issue or trauma and other issues can contribute to addiction. And while not all addiction i the result of trauma of some sort, many are. we cant only oppose addiction we also need the right desires that the addiction is trying to fulfil
