Richard’s Reviews > In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction > Status Update

"Emotionally they take the shape of chronic, low-grade depression and irritability. On the thought level, they manifest as cynicism - the negative side of the healthy skepticism and independent thinking I've always valued. Behaviorally, they mask themselves as hypomanic energy or as lethargy, as the constant hankering for activity or for oblivion."

Saving this for reasons.

As a social historian, Mate makes a very good doctor. Addiction and bad parenting do not "appear" in the historical record, so they must bot have existed, or existed in much smaller doses? Historical analysis based on "primary records" is nostalgia with footnotes.