I needed to watch this one. I am a recovering addict. Im not a bad person, sick, or stupid. Im human. I love that this presentation brought "stigma" and just being human up for us to remember to ultimately, i think love each other. And help each other under any stigma/ sickness, remember that we all are human. I just appreciate the way she presents the epidemic being more than us just being sick. Normal, sick..... we're still human. Let's evolve. Not just be normal. Sending love.
you have my sympathy mate. I was a heroin addict in the 90s and even 17 years after I kicked it I can still feel a pinch of loss for not having it anymore even if I probly never will go back. Keep up the work :D
I can confirm this first hand, I used to abuse codeine and the best way to describe a codeine/opioid high is like you're loved and connected, like you're being hugged by someone who loves you..
Love how this connects the self-harming behaviors that addicts exhibit right down to the every day act of blinking. It's sad that people really have no compassion for others sometimes unless they can literally see themselves in their shoes. Less stigma, more understanding.
I lived this, 2.8 years clean and I traded the drug seeking to serenity seeking. I do 12 steps, work in a recovery community and help others. I went from a hopeless dope fiend to a dope less hope fiend.
Been fighting this battle for well over decade with you, I have recently had success with a recovery facility using Suboxone treatment. In my state Methadone and subutex is not an option for me. Since starting my depression has been extreme to say the least. Should I stop taking suboxone because of the Naloxone in it? TN has banned or completely cut access to kratom and methadone outside of the very few grandfathered in which is too far to get to for me. My pharmacy refuses to fill subutec even when my dr was willing to bend the rules to write it for me.
I loved the way you described "ticks" as something even more involuntary than - regular - involuntary moves (like those times you arm/leg jumps like it has caught an electric discharge). Never thought about it that way, but it really makes sense
I am so lonely and I worry constantly that by isolating myself I am wasting my life. But my social anxiety is just to BIG for me to "put myself out there" and try to meet people and forge meaningful relationships.
I had to watch this a few times. I'm completely enamored by her message. Her mentioning Neuro plasticity got me the most. Her discussion of how people relating to each other struck a chord.
She is so right about social connection and opioid abuse, they both fire up same part of the brain, giving you that blisfull feeling. My constant relapses were due to a lack of meaningfull interaction, so now I'm on supstitute therapy. It's not gonna solve my problem, but I hope I'll meet someone real soon and ditch all this sh...
very interesting. jack panksepp also did research on the so called "seperation distress" with mice. the comparison with the heat seeking missile was perfect. my first Time opioids felt like becoming complete, as that was all i ever craved. im now 9 months clean, including psychotherapy and a good psychologist. it feels like the wires starting to reconnect. stay strong, ya'll Can beat this addiction. grettings from germany
Agree with many comments. Oxy is like a hug from an old friend, and as a recovering addict, going on 6 and a half years clean, this presentation explained so much. Like they say in the meetings, your head is a bad neighborhood, stay out of it!
I've suffered with a lot of those same ticks my whole life although I've been able to hide it better. Never considered myself lonely although I don't enjoy being around people that much.
@@mikedonnarumma5337 Idk man, I just find it impressive. It wasn't even worryingly noticeable afterwards either. And that's gotta be hard to overcome, y'know? Good on her's what I'm saying. :)
These are all trained public speakers who have practiced quite a bit before going on stage for TED. She did a great job delivering the talk, but you cannot say that is 'natural'. A lot of work goes into it
@@Kapin05 my question to you is,, what point does your post make about yourself, seeing as there is no way to tell that she is tourettes in the first 9 seconds,
Absolutely fascinating. Rachel Wurzmanns research & conclusions certainly echo what I, and the group of recovering alcoholics I know, have found to be true, isolation fuels addiction. Interestingly, we are all using Naltrexone to 'unlearn' our hard wired drinking habits. Naltrexone is the long term version of Naloxone, the opioid antagonist mentioned in this talk.
Ok, so I tried the not blinking thing when she mentioned it. I thought I was doing well until I noticed that my eyes were sneakily blinking, REALLY FAST, like way faster than a normal blink. It must have happened a couple of times before I even caught on.
Of those people who die every day of opiate overdose I wonder how many are people with severe chronic pain who's pain medicine was yanked? I know some of them are as i am in online support groups with people who've had to start using heroin knowing it could kill them itself or by chemicals it's been cut with because their pain is so horrible. These people, many people with chronic pain cannot function with any other treatment than the use of opiates like morphine. With the medicine they aren't addicts desperately hunting more and more drugs, they are functioning parents, employees, and law abiding members of society as long as they have access to their medications.
This was a great Ted talk. Very well done! Ultimately, if someone wants to get clean off drugs/alcohol... THEY have to get clean off drugs/alcohol. All the help in the world just won't stop some people from doing what they really want to do, and, unfortunately, that thing that some people really want to do...is drugs.
I'm glad she presented this. Addiction is a disease. And even though people that have been addicted or are addicted, they are normal people like us, they just need help to come out of that addiction.
Know this is getting off topic but I was surprised she was able to get through this long speech without ticking in any obvious way . Wonder if that took a lot of effort .
Wow. This effects everything. This opens the Opiod Crisis up in a way that effects us all. Loneliness, social isolation... explains a lot of the connection some have to Trump. It's deeply physiological .
This is amazing. Opioid addiction is on the rise, yet alcohol is still surpassing that. Addressing the opioid crisis is vital but why is there not also an alcohol crisis?
And I have basically isolated myself after I got off heroine. I dont dare to run into anyone that can set me off again. Super interesting talk :) and now Ive been off heroine for 17 years only taking one fix in all those years. To wich I reacted.. "Was that it? didnt it use to be better" but I knew U need to start havin withdrawals to get that insane kick of wellbeing
I think the connection stars in the heart before and the rest follows. I have felt some good connections even with strangers and I even experience this with my worse enemies. I think when we cannot feel it is that the person in not open to connect and does know how.
Romans 12: 4-5 " For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others."
Dude, if ur life has compressed to no other effects or connection other than opioids & withdrawals…. Not a big mystery what anyone would choose, but that’s the illusion.. to everyone else they see someone “throwing their life away” but to the user, it feels like they’re just barley hanging on to a life where they have been labeled as a burden, usually a ‘failed adult’ is the society label addicts are handed
Please help. I have been addicted to opiods for 14 years. I had success on Methadone until my state (Tennessee) has extreme cut access to methadone causing me to go to heroin for the first time in after a decade of pain medicine abuse. I have been clean only using Suboxone for some time. Suboxone has NALOXONE in it and TN bans all but pregnant women from non naloxone beprenorphine. My depression has become dramatically severe. Its been a year now and for the first time since way before opiods I have serious suicidal concerns when I'm at my worse. I don't have insurance for co-occering disorder treatment so I have to choose which disease I need to treat the most. Should I stop suboxone? Every non maintenance form of treatment always led to relapse, including homelessness and incarceration. I am doing very well to others who see me, but on the inside is an emptiness and depression that I fear will never go away. What is your advice?
When you're lonely it's painful, you try to fill it up with something like drugs which are quite potent at emulating the same "good" feeling you get from social fulfillment. Her recommendation is, instead of just replacing bad habits when in isolation like drugs with good ones like say, exercise, we should strive for real social connections.
@@andrewdias3097 What he is implying, I believe, is so many people are incapable of doing any task without looking it up on the internet. Personally, I have never built one, seen one built from the ground up, or researched how to build one, or seen plans on how to build one, but with some common hand tools, I could.
State Specific Learning: Habit, Routine, Ritual: Grabbing the Baby Let people be, self medication is used when culture is destroyed and these medicines work well. That our children are losing lives to heroin has less to do with heroin and more to with community. Nutrition, rest, safe shelter, accountability of action, inclusion regardless of intoxication and love are the antidotes to a world that is spinning so quickly into dangerous territories. Until one can provide these aspects of human: nutrition, rest, safe shelter, and inclusion, regardless of state of being, then do not speak of the causes of “mental illness”. In a world where our leaders do not even know how to sing and dance; we dissent. Mental dysfunction is a result of communal dysfunction; stop targeting individuals and get on with the day.
Random Thought: I am sober, never addicted to booze, never dipped into the dark arts, a bit lonely. According to general fact I should be an opioid addict/ addict?
No, just don't experiment because you are at risk for addiction. Everyone is a bit lonely and not everyone is an addict. There are even people who are extremely lonely and still don't turn to drugs.
Uhhhh......NO....the disconnect occurs due to effects of addiction. The continuing isolation is a factor in addiction,and lonliness feeds the mental, spiritual and emotional voids of a using addict. If you disconnect yourself from others for any number of reasons unrelated to drugs, you may or may not develop addictive use of drugs. Trees may be used to contruct a house , but because you cut down a tree, it doesn't mean you are building a house. Drug addicts isolate, but because you isolate, it doesn't mean you are an addict necessarily.
This all sound good. I just want to know why I have met more than one person who has friends, a partner, perhaps even kids, but still have alcohol problems? Maybe, maybe there is more to the story?
Great speech and presentation, but looking at how she stands on heels feels really uncomfortable and unnatural, she clearly is not used to that. I know that is not that important, but really can't get my mind of it.
I love this talk and her points were insightful. However... she's forgetting one huge key component. The environment. It doesn't matter how well we unpack and analyze striatum and the relationship it has with loneliness until we address that it's society as a whole that is sick. Because at the end of the day, the conclusion is, which she isn't doing intentionally of course, the solution is to conform to sysrem, when in fact it's completely the opposite. With all that said, this was a really good talk.
She did mention the environment. She pointed to several external causes, including the rise of social media, inner city poverty, and the breakdown of traditional social roles. Please listen carefully next time you listen to someone speak
Disconnected from what? Literally ever addict I know once started off as a regular person that needed social interaction and meaning in their life. Deprived of this, they turn to drugs that trigger those feelings without having to go through the life processes to achieve the situation that would give them satisfaction. Then once they get hooked, they will exacerbate the problem and isolate further. If you have some experience or clinical research that shows something different, please share it because I'm fairly certain her thesis is correct
@@andrewdias3097 I was a drug addict for about ten years of my life. Once in my twenties on up and once in my forties on down. Both times about five years each. I never wanted social interaction other than I had at the time. I never went to rehab. I have no interest in taking any drug or alcohol now. It has been over ten years since I did take any drug. Except for cigarettes. I used to smoke three packs a day. Quit for five years when I quit up in my twenties. Starting smoking again and then quit when I stopped taking down over ten years ago. But I started smoking cigarettes a couple of years ago, but only a pack a day. I know I should quit and I will. The guy in the comment below said a very wise thing. `Not being present is the fuel of all addictions.` I was a very highly functioning drug addict too, and no one knew I was on drugs.
Here's an awkward concept that gives life meaning and creates transcendence: God. We've made God political, revengeful, blood -thirsty. No wonder...we feel lonely on a planet with over 7 billion souls.
@@suddenlybananas1333 ...and you can't prove the opposite. We're not debating the existence of God. Religion once provided comfort and meaning (it doesn't matter if it was illusory or not). Now religion is a source of contention and argument thanks to our globalised society
Man, I wish there was a button to mute the TED intro to every single TED video on UA-cam. It's unnecessary as I know I'm watching a TED video from the title. The drop and timpani sound effects are always louder than the speaker that follows. Why is it there? This isn't broadcast TV. That's not how this works. TED people, can you PLEASE go look at your calendars because I don't think you're aware that this is 2018 and you're posting videos to UA-cam. YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG. Don't even get me started on the opioid "crisis." FEH!! Everybody thinks they know everything about it. Especially this uppity broad.
thats total bs. The addiction manifests itself other ways, I know this first hand. Whether its gambling when in prison, womanizing in relationships, or binge eating. Not to mention the complete empty, hopeless, depressed feeling that does NOT go away when the withdrawls are over.
@@mhtinla What friggin planet are you even from, how does permanent isolation solve anything? do you even know what happens to people after only a 1-2 weeks of solitary confinement?
She has a condition that causes unusual body movements. As a public speaker that doesn't have her condition, I can say from my own experience that speeches often don't deliver exactly the way that you practiced. Nobody is perfect dude.
Vulgar lies. I live alone, not many friends or family, and I don't drink or do drugs, I've never done opoids or crack or meth. Isolation doesn't lead to opioid use..
Involuntary isolation does. You do have friends and family. Some barely do. When you have nobody to turn to after the shittiest day of your life, when you come home as a human wreckage covered in dirt and blood, when you spend an entire night just bashing your head against the wall because thats the only way to stop thinking for a while, and nobody is there to care about it, that's when you snap and find yourself an addiction.
Robert Denham I think there’s a difference between being alone and being lonely. I can happily be alone for ages, to the extent that anyone interfering in my aloneness can feel like a drag. And, if it goes on too long or I’m forced to socialize or do group work, it can set my nerves jangling and I _have to seek a quiet spot ASAP_ Other people, social situations and workplaces can give me migraines. It’s not their fault and I don’t hate them for it; they just do.
I needed to watch this one. I am a recovering addict. Im not a bad person, sick, or stupid. Im human. I love that this presentation brought "stigma" and just being human up for us to remember to ultimately, i think love each other. And help each other under any stigma/ sickness, remember that we all are human. I just appreciate the way she presents the epidemic being more than us just being sick. Normal, sick..... we're still human. Let's evolve. Not just be normal.
Sending love.
Michael Shawn hope ur recovery goes well :)
@@saipat9118 Thanks!
Sending love to you.❤❤❤
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you have my sympathy mate. I was a heroin addict in the 90s and even 17 years after I kicked it I can still feel a pinch of loss for not having it anymore even if I probly never will go back.
Keep up the work :D
I can confirm this first hand, I used to abuse codeine and the best way to describe a codeine/opioid high is like you're loved and connected, like you're being hugged by someone who loves you..
Love how this connects the self-harming behaviors that addicts exhibit right down to the every day act of blinking. It's sad that people really have no compassion for others sometimes unless they can literally see themselves in their shoes. Less stigma, more understanding.
I lived this, 2.8 years clean and I traded the drug seeking to serenity seeking. I do 12 steps, work in a recovery community and help others. I went from a hopeless dope fiend to a dope less hope fiend.
you will relapse eventually...white girl.
your jealousy will erode whats left of your racist soul@@RicoClout28
Been fighting this battle for well over decade with you, I have recently had success with a recovery facility using Suboxone treatment. In my state Methadone and subutex is not an option for me. Since starting my depression has been extreme to say the least. Should I stop taking suboxone because of the Naloxone in it? TN has banned or completely cut access to kratom and methadone outside of the very few grandfathered in which is too far to get to for me. My pharmacy refuses to fill subutec even when my dr was willing to bend the rules to write it for me.
I loved the way you described "ticks" as something even more involuntary than - regular - involuntary moves (like those times you arm/leg jumps like it has caught an electric discharge). Never thought about it that way, but it really makes sense
Totally! It truly is an electrical discharge!
I am so lonely and I worry constantly that by isolating myself I am wasting my life. But my social anxiety is just to BIG for me to "put myself out there" and try to meet people and forge meaningful relationships.
I had to watch this a few times. I'm completely enamored by her message. Her mentioning Neuro plasticity got me the most. Her discussion of how people relating to each other struck a chord.
Had the privilege of having her as a mentor this summer! She was so kind and helpful and is definitely my role model as a woman in stem
She is so right about social connection and opioid abuse, they both fire up same part of the brain, giving you that blisfull feeling. My constant relapses were due to a lack of meaningfull interaction, so now I'm on supstitute therapy. It's not gonna solve my problem, but I hope I'll meet someone real soon and ditch all this sh...
61 days clean today, I thank this woman for shining a light on this Epidemic.
Hope u stayed clean brother may God bless you, I'm trying to get clean myself
very interesting. jack panksepp also did research on the so called "seperation distress" with mice. the comparison with the heat seeking missile was perfect. my first Time opioids felt like becoming complete, as that was all i ever craved. im now 9 months clean, including psychotherapy and a good psychologist. it feels like the wires starting to reconnect. stay strong, ya'll Can beat this addiction. grettings from germany
Agree with many comments. Oxy is like a hug from an old friend, and as a recovering addict, going on 6 and a half years clean, this presentation explained so much. Like they say in the meetings, your head is a bad neighborhood, stay out of it!
I've suffered with a lot of those same ticks my whole life although I've been able to hide it better. Never considered myself lonely although I don't enjoy being around people that much.
She does a really good job blending her ticks with natural emphases. I didn't notice she had tourettes 'till she pointed it out, g'job!
she pointed it out in the first 9 seconds, whats your point
@@mikedonnarumma5337 Idk man, I just find it impressive. It wasn't even worryingly noticeable afterwards either. And that's gotta be hard to overcome, y'know? Good on her's what I'm saying. :)
These are all trained public speakers who have practiced quite a bit before going on stage for TED. She did a great job delivering the talk, but you cannot say that is 'natural'. A lot of work goes into it
@@andrewdias3097 I meant natural-looking, sorry. A lot of people seem to violently throw their arms around for emphasis, and she keeps it subtle.
@@Kapin05 my question to you is,, what point does your post make about yourself, seeing as there is no way to tell that she is tourettes in the first 9 seconds,
Amazing presenter of her work. I enjoyed learning from this talk.
Absolutely fascinating. Rachel Wurzmanns research & conclusions certainly echo what I, and the group of recovering alcoholics I know, have found to be true, isolation fuels addiction. Interestingly, we are all using Naltrexone to 'unlearn' our hard wired drinking habits. Naltrexone is the long term version of Naloxone, the opioid antagonist mentioned in this talk.
Ok, so I tried the not blinking thing when she mentioned it. I thought I was doing well until I noticed that my eyes were sneakily blinking, REALLY FAST, like way faster than a normal blink. It must have happened a couple of times before I even caught on.
Of those people who die every day of opiate overdose I wonder how many are people with severe chronic pain who's pain medicine was yanked? I know some of them are as i am in online support groups with people who've had to start using heroin knowing it could kill them itself or by chemicals it's been cut with because their pain is so horrible. These people, many people with chronic pain cannot function with any other treatment than the use of opiates like morphine. With the medicine they aren't addicts desperately hunting more and more drugs, they are functioning parents, employees, and law abiding members of society as long as they have access to their medications.
This was a great Ted talk. Very well done!
Ultimately, if someone wants to get clean off drugs/alcohol... THEY have to get clean off drugs/alcohol.
All the help in the world just won't stop some people from doing what they really want to do, and, unfortunately, that thing that some people really want to do...is drugs.
I'm glad she presented this. Addiction is a disease. And even though people that have been addicted or are addicted, they are normal people like us, they just need help to come out of that addiction.
This explains why I don’t socialize and why I am always alone.
Mind. Blown.
“Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment.”
Proverbs 18:1
Know this is getting off topic but I was surprised she was able to get through this long speech without ticking in any obvious way . Wonder if that took a lot of effort .
Wow. This effects everything. This opens the Opiod Crisis up in a way that effects us all. Loneliness, social isolation... explains a lot of the connection some have to Trump. It's deeply physiological .
This is amazing. Opioid addiction is on the rise, yet alcohol is still surpassing that. Addressing the opioid crisis is vital but why is there not also an alcohol crisis?
And I have basically isolated myself after I got off heroine. I dont dare to run into anyone that can set me off again.
Super interesting talk :) and now Ive been off heroine for 17 years only taking one fix in all those years. To wich I reacted.. "Was that it? didnt it use to be better" but I knew U need to start havin withdrawals to get that insane kick of wellbeing
I think the connection stars in the heart before and the rest follows. I have felt some good connections even with strangers and I even experience this with my worse enemies. I think when we cannot feel it is that the person in not open to connect and does know how.
The blinking thing made it all clear
The ONLY reason I take what few opiates I do is because the pain is fucking horrific. No other reason.
This sheds light on a lot of things
This is amazing. Thank you! 💜
I learned that lonelyness can be fuel for opioid additiction
Worth while talk listening to!
Romans 12: 4-5 " For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others."
She spot on!
~●~ ..."... loneliness! will make you throw your sense away!! ...".. ~●~ H. Rollins ~●~
I know more people that are depend of others and are still lonely.
Dude, if ur life has compressed to no other effects or connection other than opioids & withdrawals…. Not a big mystery what anyone would choose, but that’s the illusion.. to everyone else they see someone “throwing their life away” but to the user, it feels like they’re just barley hanging on to a life where they have been labeled as a burden, usually a ‘failed adult’ is the society label addicts are handed
Please help. I have been addicted to opiods for 14 years. I had success on Methadone until my state (Tennessee) has extreme cut access to methadone causing me to go to heroin for the first time in after a decade of pain medicine abuse. I have been clean only using Suboxone for some time. Suboxone has NALOXONE in it and TN bans all but pregnant women from non naloxone beprenorphine. My depression has become dramatically severe. Its been a year now and for the first time since way before opiods I have serious suicidal concerns when I'm at my worse. I don't have insurance for co-occering disorder treatment so I have to choose which disease I need to treat the most. Should I stop suboxone? Every non maintenance form of treatment always led to relapse, including homelessness and incarceration. I am doing very well to others who see me, but on the inside is an emptiness and depression that I fear will never go away. What is your advice?
I hope you are doing better.
Isn't it the same about alcohol addiction and the method of curing it by socialising in Alcoholics Anonymous groups?
Soo can someone tell me how isolation fuels addiction? I think I missed her point somewhere.
When you're lonely it's painful, you try to fill it up with something like drugs which are quite potent at emulating the same "good" feeling you get from social fulfillment. Her recommendation is, instead of just replacing bad habits when in isolation like drugs with good ones like say, exercise, we should strive for real social connections.
@@2stoon ooo okay so she's talking about loneliness more than isolating yourself, awesome thanks :)
@@destrorexe Loneliness and isolation go hand in hand, and you're welcome :)
Interesting ideas
I took drugs to cope with socialising
To replace socializing
Na. It helped me go out and see people. Since I've quit Heroin and cocaine I have no social life
I am a introvert.I don't like socializing
Who's in comment section without watching the video.?.
i'm doing a little of both; i typically don't like gingers
video. tf
Who here knows how to build a log cabin without the help of the Internet?
@Zeb Fast not bad
Exceptional point! Much props! :)
How nice of a log cabin?
@@sparky5543 what was the point?
@@andrewdias3097 What he is implying, I believe, is so many people are incapable of doing any task without looking it up on the internet. Personally, I have never built one, seen one built from the ground up, or researched how to build one, or seen plans on how to build one, but with some common hand tools, I could.
State Specific Learning: Habit, Routine, Ritual: Grabbing the Baby
Let people be, self medication is used when culture is destroyed and these medicines work well. That our children are losing lives to heroin has less to do with heroin and more to with community. Nutrition, rest, safe shelter, accountability of action, inclusion regardless of intoxication and love are the antidotes to a world that is spinning so quickly into dangerous territories.
Until one can provide these aspects of human: nutrition, rest, safe shelter, and inclusion, regardless of state of being, then do not speak of the causes of “mental illness”. In a world where our leaders do not even know how to sing and dance; we dissent. Mental dysfunction is a result of communal dysfunction; stop targeting individuals and get on with the day.
Random Thought: I am sober, never addicted to booze, never dipped into the dark arts, a bit lonely. According to general fact I should be an opioid addict/ addict?
No, just don't experiment because you are at risk for addiction. Everyone is a bit lonely and not everyone is an addict. There are even people who are extremely lonely and still don't turn to drugs.
Uhhhh......NO....the disconnect occurs due to effects of addiction. The continuing isolation is a factor in addiction,and lonliness feeds the mental, spiritual and emotional voids of a using addict.
If you disconnect yourself from others for any number of reasons unrelated to drugs, you may or may not develop addictive use of drugs. Trees may be used to contruct a house , but because you cut down a tree, it doesn't mean you are building a house.
Drug addicts isolate, but because you isolate, it doesn't mean you are an addict necessarily.
@@zellmalik1 some people are introverts like me.people sometimes get on my nerves.I am at peace when I am alone at home.jmho
Magnificent!!! 😲
This all sound good. I just want to know why I have met more than one person who has friends, a partner, perhaps even kids, but still have alcohol problems? Maybe, maybe there is more to the story?
Isolation is a gift
What's stigma?
~●~Normal versus Sick versus Well~●~
"it is a fact that people dont have free will around drugs"???I know for a fact (actual fact) thats not true!I wonder what else she says in untrue...
Great speech and presentation, but looking at how she stands on heels feels really uncomfortable and unnatural, she clearly is not used to that. I know that is not that important, but really can't get my mind of it.
I got so distracted by her movement that I had to listen but not watch... I understand, and feel horrible to have admitted that out loud.
I love this talk and her points were insightful. However... she's forgetting one huge key component. The environment. It doesn't matter how well we unpack and analyze striatum and the relationship it has with loneliness until we address that it's society as a whole that is sick. Because at the end of the day, the conclusion is, which she isn't doing intentionally of course, the solution is to conform to sysrem, when in fact it's completely the opposite. With all that said, this was a really good talk.
She did mention the environment. She pointed to several external causes, including the rise of social media, inner city poverty, and the breakdown of traditional social roles. Please listen carefully next time you listen to someone speak
Hi
Wow!
Hence the 12 step programs
Her talk is kind of `disconnected`and I do not think her hypothesis holds true for all people.
Disconnected from what? Literally ever addict I know once started off as a regular person that needed social interaction and meaning in their life. Deprived of this, they turn to drugs that trigger those feelings without having to go through the life processes to achieve the situation that would give them satisfaction. Then once they get hooked, they will exacerbate the problem and isolate further. If you have some experience or clinical research that shows something different, please share it because I'm fairly certain her thesis is correct
@@andrewdias3097 I was a drug addict for about ten years of my life. Once in my twenties on up and once in my forties on down. Both times about five years each. I never wanted social interaction other than I had at the time. I never went to rehab. I have no interest in taking any drug or alcohol now. It has been over ten years since I did take any drug. Except for cigarettes. I used to smoke three packs a day. Quit for five years when I quit up in my twenties. Starting smoking again and then quit when I stopped taking down over ten years ago. But I started smoking cigarettes a couple of years ago, but only a pack a day. I know I should quit and I will. The guy in the comment below said a very wise thing. `Not being present is the fuel of all addictions.` I was a very highly functioning drug addict too, and no one knew I was on drugs.
fkn fax
Behavioral sink. Just saying.
Good joke at @ 6:05 ... ~●~
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Here's an awkward concept that gives life meaning and creates transcendence: God.
We've made God political, revengeful, blood -thirsty. No wonder...we feel lonely on a planet with over 7 billion souls.
Yeah, it's an awkward concept because you don't have any proof.
@@suddenlybananas1333 ...and you can't prove the opposite. We're not debating the existence of God. Religion once provided comfort and meaning (it doesn't matter if it was illusory or not). Now religion is a source of contention and argument thanks to our globalised society
Religion is the opiate of the masses
...as opposed to the time when religion wasn't "political, revengeful, blood -thirsty"??? When was that lol
@@MysticKenji2 ...lol, you're right.
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Man, I wish there was a button to mute the TED intro to every single TED video on UA-cam. It's unnecessary as I know I'm watching a TED video from the title. The drop and timpani sound effects are always louder than the speaker that follows. Why is it there? This isn't broadcast TV. That's not how this works. TED people, can you PLEASE go look at your calendars because I don't think you're aware that this is 2018 and you're posting videos to UA-cam. YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG. Don't even get me started on the opioid "crisis." FEH!! Everybody thinks they know everything about it. Especially this uppity broad.
ginger Cate blachett
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ISOLATION solves opioid addiction. You just need to get isolated enough to not have access to opioid.
thats total bs. The addiction manifests itself other ways, I know this first hand. Whether its gambling when in prison, womanizing in relationships, or binge eating. Not to mention the complete empty, hopeless, depressed feeling that does NOT go away when the withdrawls are over.
You can't womanize when there's no woman. That's why isolation is effective.
@@mhtinla What friggin planet are you even from, how does permanent isolation solve anything? do you even know what happens to people after only a 1-2 weeks of solitary confinement?
Who says anything about solitary confinement?
Indeed, I call it death.
That moment you realise you've just been trolled 18:57 😂👍
She hesitates and speaks for a moment.
You're thinking about memorizing?
She has a condition that causes unusual body movements. As a public speaker that doesn't have her condition, I can say from my own experience that speeches often don't deliver exactly the way that you practiced. Nobody is perfect dude.
Hurray, kinship in meglomania!!! Ok, sure, I'm willing to experiment with you dahlin', er Doc. Look me up, and let's see what we may create together.
First. Not first.
*I've been taking opiates for more than 30 years. When you Respect yourself, you don't become an drug addict.*
3th viewer
Lol, 3th...it's 3rd.
@@AshleyMadisonsRight I'm the 30rd lol
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7pm should be in bed watching ted
Don't tell my mom please
She will pull me from my pants 👖 😬
Vulgar lies.
I live alone, not many friends or family, and I don't drink or do drugs, I've never done opoids or crack or meth.
Isolation doesn't lead to opioid use..
Involuntary isolation does. You do have friends and family. Some barely do. When you have nobody to turn to after the shittiest day of your life, when you come home as a human wreckage covered in dirt and blood, when you spend an entire night just bashing your head against the wall because thats the only way to stop thinking for a while, and nobody is there to care about it, that's when you snap and find yourself an addiction.
@@jackwinterheld4335 well said.
Robert Denham I think there’s a difference between being alone and being lonely. I can happily be alone for ages, to the extent that anyone interfering in my aloneness can feel like a drag. And, if it goes on too long or I’m forced to socialize or do group work, it can set my nerves jangling and I _have to seek a quiet spot ASAP_ Other people, social situations and workplaces can give me migraines. It’s not their fault and I don’t hate them for it; they just do.
Stop lying
Hello