#498 The Pleasure Trap: Unmasking the Long-Term Cost of Short-Term Relief
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.4 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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The Pleasure Trap: Unmasking the Long-Term Cost of Short-Term Relief
Welcome to Happiness Podcast, where we delve into the complex world of addiction. We'll explore how these seemingly harmless habits can quickly turn into destructive forces, offering temporary pleasure at the expense of long-term well-being. Join us as we uncover the deceptive nature of addiction and empower you to break free from its grasp.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. I like chocolate. My favorite part is when I have a nice piece of chocolate. I place it in my mouth, |
| 0:18.0 | drink some nice hot tea, and let it melt away in my mouth. It is so good. But I also strive to be healthy, so I've |
| 0:28.2 | experimented with a lot of different types of chocolate and I found a company that makes a chocolate that I like that's 88% cocoa and it's really good. |
| 0:37.0 | I don't need a lot of it but I do give myself a treat periodically and like I said I love chocolate well recently I was doing some traveling |
| 0:46.0 | and I found a piece of chocolate just lying about it was a small piece I said |
| 0:49.8 | well let's give it a try and I tried it and it was so good. It was so much better than my chocolate. |
| 0:57.0 | I can't even tell you. And I thought that's why I don't need that type of chocolate because it's almost too good. I live in Southern California and here we do a thing at our |
| 1:07.1 | elementary schools called Red Ribbon Week and during this week it really educates kids on the dangers of drugs and alcohol |
| 1:16.0 | and how it can destroy their lives or they're not careful. |
| 1:19.0 | In many ways its main focus, not its only, but its main focus is on how bad and dangerous drugs are. |
| 1:25.0 | But over the past several decades I've worked with people with addictions. |
| 1:28.3 | I even did my training at the VA hospital at the Drug and Alcohol Award for one year. |
| 1:34.0 | Well, the one thing I've learned over the years about any form of addiction, particularly drugs, |
| 1:39.0 | is that actually in many ways, of course they are really bad and can destroy people's lives, but what makes them bad is that they are so good. |
| 1:49.0 | Before you get mad at me, let me try to explain what I mean by this. |
| 1:53.6 | Sometimes we struggle on life, and sometimes we struggle a whole lot in life, |
| 1:59.4 | almost to the point that we may not even feel like living anymore. |
| 2:03.0 | When we're in that much pain, the main thing we want is relief from that pain. |
| 2:08.0 | We want it to go away. |
| 2:10.0 | And though what I'm going to say next applies to all types of addictions, it's just more prevalent, |
| 2:15.0 | more easy to see in severe drug addiction. |
| 2:18.6 | Sadly, we have a lot of homeless living in Los Angeles, and some of them struggle with severe pain, emotional, |
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