Name: 不是意志力問題！成癮的真相可能來自童年的創傷 (How Childhood Trauma Leads to Addiction)
Uploaded: 2025-10-21T21:01:30.000Z
Duration: 8 min 34 s

Number 8. The candy that was never sweet.

You're six years old and someone offers you candy.

Except every time you reach for it, they pull it away.

結果每次你伸手去拿，他們就把糖收回去。

也許他們會笑，也許他們會吼。

Fast forward 20 years, and now you're chasing that same candy.

快轉二十年，現在你還在追逐那顆同樣的糖果。

Anything that finally lets your brain unclench for a minute.

任何能讓你大腦暫時放鬆的東西。

See, childhood trauma doesn't just make you sad.

你看，童年創傷不只讓你難過。

When you grow up in chaos, your brain learns that comfort is unreliable, that it has to chase relief like a survival mission.

當你在混亂中長大，你的大腦學會了舒適是不可靠的，必須像生存任務一樣去追逐慰藉。

Every time something good almost happens, your nervous system whispers, don't trust it.

每次有好事情快要發生時，你的神經系統就會低語，別相信它。

Neuroscientists call this dysregulated reward circuitry.

神經科學家稱之為失調的獎勵迴路。

So instead of naturally enjoying things, you need external proof that you can feel good.

所以，與其自然地享受事物，你反而需要外在的證明才能感覺良好。

A drink, a pill, a relationship, a bag of chips the size of a toddler.

一杯酒、一顆藥丸、一段關係、一大包跟小孩一樣大的洋芋片。

Basically, addiction is your brain's way of trying to finally get the candy, even if it's been stale for years.

基本上，成癮是大腦試圖最終拿到糖果的方式，即使它已經放了幾年。

You're first teacher wasn't Ms. Appleton; it was cortisol.

你啟蒙老師不是艾波頓小姐，而是皮質醇。

If your childhood was filled with screaming, unpredictability,

如果你的童年充滿了尖叫、不可預測性，

or that fun game called Guess Which Parents Mood You're Surviving Today,

或是那個叫做「猜猜今天爸媽心情如何」的遊戲，

then your body grew up marinated in stress hormones.

那麼你的身體就是在壓力荷爾蒙中長大的。

Chronic stress in childhood hardwires your amygdala.

童年的慢性壓力會硬化你的杏仁核。

That's the part of your brain that handles fear, to act like it's living in a haunted house 24/7.

那是你大腦負責處理恐懼的部分，讓它24小時都像住在鬼屋裡一樣。

You're jumpy, hypervigilant, and always waiting for something bad to happen.

你變得容易受驚、過度警覺，總是等待著不好的事情發生。

Then one day, you find something that turns the volume down.

然後有一天，你找到了能降低音量的東西。

Your body sighs in relief and says, finally, peace.

你的身體鬆了一口氣，說，終於，平靜了。

But the thing that brings you peace also becomes the thing that owns you.

但讓你感到平靜的東西，也變成了擁有你的東西。

This is why trauma survivors often say, "I just wanted to feel normal."

這就是為什麼創傷倖存者常說，我只是想感覺正常。

Because when you've spent your whole childhood on high alert, even calmness feels suspicious.

因為當你整個童年都處於高度警戒狀態，連平靜都讓你覺得可疑。

Addiction, in that sense, isn't a moral failure.

從這個意義上來說，成癮並非道德上的失敗。

Your body's saying, if no one taught me safety, I'll manufacture it.

你的身體在說，如果沒人教我安全感，我就自己製造。

Here's how it works: Your brain, traumatized since childhood, becomes a dopamine accountant.

這是你的大腦，從童年就飽受創傷，如何變成多巴胺會計師。

It treats happiness like a high interest loan.

When you grow up around chaos, your brain learns that feeling good comes with consequences.

當你在混亂中長大，你的大腦學到感覺良好是伴隨後果的。

So it stops producing steady dopamine, that lovely little molecule of motivation and pleasure.

所以它停止製造穩定的多巴胺，那種令人愉悅的動力小分子。

Now instead of a steady trickle, you get a drought followed by floods.

現在，你得到的是乾旱接著洪水，而不是穩定的涓流。

Substances and compulsions don't give you new dopamine.

藥物和強迫行為並不會給你新的多巴胺。

You get the rush now, but the crash later.

你現在得到快感，但之後會迎來崩潰。

What's worse, your brain starts to forget how to feel joy without stimulation.

更糟的是，你的大腦開始忘記如何在沒有刺激的情況下感受快樂。

You can't just enjoy a sunny day anymore.

你無法再單純享受陽光燦爛的一天。

And when those fireworks burn out, your brain panics and runs back for more.

而當那些煙火燃盡時，你的大腦就會恐慌，然後跑回去尋求更多。

Basically, childhood trauma didn't just make you anxious.

基本上，童年創傷不只讓你焦慮。

It taught your brain to mistrust happiness.

Addiction is just the inevitable middleman in that toxic negotiation.

成癮只是那場有毒協商中，無可避免的中間人。

If you grew up in a house where your feelings were invisible,

如果你在一個感覺被忽視的家庭長大，

your brain learned one important rule: you don't matter unless you're useful or entertaining.

你的大腦會學到一個重要的規定：除非你有用或有趣，否則你根本不重要。

突然間，長大成人後，你就上癮了。

尋求認同、戲劇性，甚至是過度工作。

Emotional neglect is the silent cousin of chaos.

情感忽視就像混亂的無聲親戚。

It doesn't hit you, it just forgets you exist.

它不會傷害你，只是忘記你的存在。

It learns to fill that void with anything that creates even a flicker of connection.

它學會用任何能帶來一絲連結的事物來填補那個空虛，

Scrolling, drinking, love bombing, or binge watching shows until 3 am, pretending you're not lonely.

像是滑手機、喝酒、情感轟炸，或是看到凌晨三點還在追劇，假裝自己並不孤單。

So when someone says, "Addicts just want to escape," they're half right.

所以，當有人說成癮者只是想逃避時，他們只說對了一半。

What they're really escaping is the ghost of being unseen.

他們真正逃避的是「不被看見」的幽靈。

You know that kid in school who always got straight A's, never caused trouble and seemed totally fine?

你知道學校裡那個總是拿全A、從不惹麻煩、看起來一切都好好的小孩嗎？

Statistically speaking, there's a good chance that kid was emotionally imploding inside.

統計學上來說，那樣的小孩很有可能內心正在崩潰。

Growing up in trauma often forces kids to become mini adults.

在創傷中長大，常常讓孩子們被迫變成小大人。

Hyper responsible, obedient, caretakers of everyone else's feelings.

超級負責任，乖乖聽話地照顧著別人的情緒。

They learn that being good is the only way to stay safe.

他們學到「乖」是唯一能讓自己安全的方式。

而這就是事情變得複雜的地方。

When that kid finally becomes an adult, all those bottled up feelings start leaking out.

當那個小孩長大成人後，所有那些被壓抑的情緒就會開始滲漏出來。

焦慮、憤怒、悲傷、筋疲力盡。

The emotional dam breaks and the flood needs somewhere to go.

情緒的堤壩潰決，洪水需要有地方宣洩。

Because substances don't argue, they don't demand.

因為物質不會爭辯，不會要求。

They just offer instant rebellion, a break from perfection.

它們只是提供即時的反叛，從完美中解脫。

Every drink, every pill, every binge is a middle finger to the invisible pressure.

每一口酒、每一顆藥丸、每一次暴飲暴食，都是對無形壓力的無聲反抗。

So the good kid grows up and turns to addiction.

於是，乖小孩長大了，轉而走向成癮。

Not because they were weak, but because they were too strong for too long.

不是因為他們軟弱，而是因為他們太過堅強太久了。

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