>Your plan is to spend the rest of your life feeling sorry for yourself?
You are the only one feeling sorry for other people in this conversation.
Even people with what would be generally considered great lives chase dopamine. Believe whatever narrative you need to, but in general this behavior is not that deep or problematic vs an actual drug addiction or real problems. It seems you have an axe to grind with anything "self-control" related.
You are implying that my argument isn't from experience when it is. My argument is that you are biased and projecting your own self-control problems on others and treating your solution as a universal truth to be learned. You are also conflating people looking at their phones to your previous drug addiction.
>And please don't use what a person has said
Ok, I'll remember to not include any topics or details anyone ever brings up in conversation. I don't think any more or less of you based on your past you mentioned. I'm just attributing it to your bias.
Criticism is not disrespectful. I should probably stop replying to your messages however, this is going somewhere unhelpful so I apologize for that.
All this being said, if your disdain for that behavior keeps you personally away from bad behavior, I could see how promoting that strategy internally and externally is important to you. Disdain can be a useful tool.
You are the only one feeling sorry for other people in this conversation.
Even people with what would be generally considered great lives chase dopamine. Believe whatever narrative you need to, but in general this behavior is not that deep or problematic vs an actual drug addiction or real problems. It seems you have an axe to grind with anything "self-control" related.