Addictive and sustainable aren’t opposites. If anything, addictiveness makes some things MORE sustainable. Coffee drinking is WAY more sustainable of a habit than exercise and meditation

This whole graph is nonsense

Breathwork

Meditation

Exercise

Sleep

I think we might need to add a few more axises, as we’re missing one for “potency” and one for “accessibility”. Sleep and exercise tend to require a large chunk of uninterrupted time and focus. Breathwork and meditations great for getting through a short-term spike in stress but significantly less potent than caffeine, food, or alcohol. Quality therapy is good precisely because it is supposed to be highly potent in relatively small doses. But, even more than cost, its often something a prospective patient struggles to find.

Social media and consumerism are addictive because they are so heavily immersive, which is useful when you’re attempting to block anxiety out. Meanwhile, Learning and Hobbies can require a certain degree of focus that someone staring down a panic attack has difficulty bringing to bare.