Do I have a problem? Am I too dependent on this? Am I an addict? These are questions I hear often in my work, and questions that rarely come with simple answers. Even when they do, there aren’t always easy fixes, because dependency isn’t just about chemicals, it’s also about who we are.

In this episode, we dive into addiction from an existential perspective: what it means when your very sense of self becomes entangled with something outside of you. With insight from thinkers like Kierkegaard, and grounded in the raw reality of human suffering, we explore the deeper meaning of addiction.

And maybe, just maybe, we’ll begin to question the way we see “addicts” altogether.