Addiction

“When you have a persistent sense of heartbreak and gutwrench, the physical sensations become intolerable and we will do anything to make those feelings disappear. And that is really the origin of what happens in human pathology. People take drugs to make it disappear, and they cut themselves to make it disappear, and they starve themselves to make it disappear, and they have sex with anyone who comes along to make it disappear and once you have these horrible sensations in your body, you’ll do anything to make it go away.” ~Bessel van der Kolk~

Self-Binding: Like Odysseus having his men bind him to the mast of the ship so he could hear the song of the Sirens without crashing the ship, self-binding allows your current self to “bind” your future self to the course you want, and prevents you from losing your way when your willpower wanes.