Honestly I don't think putting it into sharp categories like A or B are useful. I don't have addiction but I suffer from chronic mental illness. Strangely desp

Honestly I don't think putting it into sharp categories like A or B are useful. I don't have addiction but I suffer from chronic mental illness. Strangely despite being diagnosed at a young age and having dealt with it all through college and into my mid 20s people were still treating me like it was just something I could "get over". So I guess this is more in the B camp. For me this wasn't helpful and I felt just as helpless because the problems didn't go away. Now I embrace the fact that I have a chronic mental illness that is NOT going to go away. This is more in the A camp. But once you embrace that at least for me I felt less helpless. I knew it wasn't going away and I worked to put up supports because it wasn't just a passing thing. It never will be for me. You can change your response to things and that's maybe the "neuroplasticity" he's talking about? But your brain actually isn't that plastic after childhood. If addiction is anything like my mental illness you'll always have the same response in a situation. You can have years of learned behaviors and coping mechanisms but that doesn't mean that it doesn't destroy you initially when you run into a rough situation. It's accepting that and how to deal with it and the aftermath that you can change.