Addiction: The Way In. The Way Out.
Revised Edition (2026)
“I am no longer chasing pleasure. I am only trying to ease what hurts.”
Addiction is often treated as a silence to be broken or a problem to be solved. But in this revised edition, Dr. Simon Robinson suggests it is also a structure to be understood—a “Way In” that must be mapped before we can find the “Way Out.”
Drawing on his dual experience as a clinician and a patient, Robinson explores how our necessary protections can harden into a prison. This is not a clinical manual, but a compassionate guide to understanding how the habits we build to survive can eventually consume us—and how we might finally put the weight down.
A Visual Introduction
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Inside the Book
“I arrive already tired. Not newly tired-worn through. Time feels thin, as if I have missed something important without knowing what it was.”
“Everything collapses into two things: what hurts, and what dulls it. The world simplifies as it closes in.”
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