Beginning

Not another textbook on addiction

If you search the digital world, you will find an almost endless amount of information about addiction:

- definitions,

- symptom lists,

- treatment guidelines,

- and personal stories.

Repeating this here would add little value. This site is not meant to be a mini‑Wikipedia, and I have no interest in generating more noise.

My work focuses on something else: how we relate to dependence as a structural fact of life, and what goes wrong when that relationship becomes destructive.

Addiction as a feature of our society

From my perspective, addiction is not an isolated individual fate.

It is:

- a structural feature of our current society,

- and increasingly a conscious method used in business models and system design to bind attention, time, money, and loyalty.

Put differently:

→ Dependencies are not accidents at the margins of our systems.

→ They are built into many of the systems themselves.

Understanding this changes how we look at so‑called “addicts.” It becomes less about personal weakness and more about how individuals manage themselves inside dependency‑driven environments.

Why this matters for my work

This metaperspective is not an intellectual game. It has practical consequences:

- It allows interventions that focus on self‑responsibility and functional autonomy instead of pure symptom suppression.

- It prevents moralizing people for failing in systems that are, in many ways, designed to overload their self‑management.

- It honours both the structural dimension and the personal responsibility without collapsing one into the other.

All further pages in this cluster build on this starting point. ​