He goes shopping to feel better. He spends lots of money on music records. His wife gets mad at him. They cannot afford for Gabor to keep buying new records. There is no space in their house for more records. Gabor has developed an addiction to shopping. An addiction is a strong and harmful need to do something. Gabor is now a doctor and he works with people who have drug addictions.
People with drug addictions face a lot of judgment. They often get blamed for their addiction. Gabor thinks that this is wrong. He says addiction is usually the result of a stressful childhood. People with addictions have lived through trauma , such as violence or loss. Yet, the government treats them like criminals.
They are put in jail because drug use is illegal. This does nothing to help them get better. Is there a better way? Gabor calls on everyone to treat people with addictions with compassion.
He writes books, gives speeches, and goes on talk shows to spread this message. He says we must stop judging people for the ways they cope with their difficult lives. We must make a world where people can get their needs met and everyone is treated with respect.
If we lived in this kind of world, more children would grow up healthy. Fewer people would need to do drugs to cope. We have not built this kind of world yet. Until we have, Gabor works to reduce the harm done by addiction. Rather than an inherited disease, Attention Deficit Disorder is a reversible impairment and a developmental delay, with origins in infancy. It is rooted in multigenerational family stress and in disturbed social conditions in a stressed society. In Scattered Minds , Dr.
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