They aren't allowing themselves to make a mistake and learn from it because this is what they have been taught. All this ultimately leads to addiction. Society compels us to get with the program and we respond with hopeless apathy coupled with depression as attitude adjustment. Groomed in the image that will best conform to society, we internalize our frustration, our hurt, at not being accepted for ourselves. We are never at peace with our conscious mind.
Addictions hide the hurt and bury the pain.
Substance are ingestive, mood-altering chemical addictions, natural and artificial, legal and prescribed. Compulsive are obsessive and repetitive behavior addictions. Compulsive addictions are only limited by ones imagination. It has been thought that people who abuse food or drugs are trying to fill a void inside themselves. People are born filled with their own individuality.