hello beloveds i'm slowly going to be moving over to teethburied !

i think abt that tweet that was like "voice training? no thanks, maybe you should do ears training" every single day that shit changed something in me

& more broadly it just comes down to like. why is it apparently soooo tempting to decribe any like, pleasurable or compulsive or unwanted habit as an addiction, and what do we mean by that. often there's an assumption that invoking a word used in clinical context means having recourse to a specific, defined, observed biological disease state but ofc this is often not true and is never true where psychiatric nosology is concerned. so when you say that [eating disorders / BFRBs / whatever] are addictive or are addictions, really you're just defining compulsion and addiction in reference to one another and trying simultaneously to use each to legitimate the other. it's silly at best and more likely to resurface in clinical efforts to limit patient autonomy than anything else

I don’t normally ask for help on here but can someone please send me $90,000.