>>55551546addictions to sugar and junk food. went through the 'anorexia to morbidly obese' pipeline when I was a child and I've been on and off the wagon my entire life. nowadays I'm pretty obsessed with both preparing my food from scratch and avoiding all sugars not gotten from eating fresh fruit and all oils besides olive oil, I hate grocery shopping because every single time it's just a load of triggers you have to steel yourself and say absolutely no to.
had gacha too, the classic 'replace one addiction with another less immediately harmful one' fallacy. unlinked all my payment options and dropped every gacha besides fgo and arknights, both of which allow you to spark stuff (and also skip the animations entirely to avoid that dopamine rush, very important to do that as well) and completely ignore the gambling side of the game.
so yeah, addictions are no joke and the struggle never goes away. battling them basically has to become a core part of who you are because, speaking from experience, every time you don't do that you can and will fall off that wagon. it always starts with a small lapse in willpower and ends with full on dependency.
I get what goomba is trying to say but it's the wrong mindset and downplays the severity of things like addiction. if addiction was that easy it wouldn't be so hard to break.
