163 The Illusion of Choice

When biological needs are not met, the body will feel worse and worse until they are. And there will often be a period when high performance is not possible if we went long enough without meeting the need. The more intense the need is, the less it meaningfully feels like a choice to avoid meeting it. One thing this means is that a lot of our coping mechanisms sometimes have deep needs underneath them, and it's extremely difficult to ignore those long-term. So how do we get those needs met? AuDHD Flourishing resources: Transcript Doc (often a few weeks behind, but we do catch up!) Mattia's Newsletter Like Your Brain community space (Patreon/Discord) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.