After watching the video on addiction by Jo Harvey, the most surprising and eye opening aspect during the TED talk was the truth about addiction and how difficult it can be for people with addictions. People who have an addiction use a substance to free themselves of pain for a period of time or to get away from their negative reality. This story decreases the stigma of mental illness because it gives another perspective of why people with addiction continue to abuse a substance or abuse a negative action. Furthermore, the TED talk informs people to look at addiction from a different perspective and it may not be completely genetic. Joy goes on to speak about how the environment affects people that may have the addiction gene. Even though
