Understanding the Neurodivergent Mind – A Guide to Breaking Free from Recursive Patterns
By Daniel Charles Cohen Sr.
ISBN: 979-8293522439

but a message from a misunderstood mind?

Addiction recovery has long ignored a critical truth: neurodivergent individuals—those with ADHD, autism, sensory processing differences, and more—are significantly more likely to struggle with addiction. This isn’t because they’re flawed. It’s because the world wasn’t built for their brains.

The Hidden Logic of Addiction explains addiction not as pathology, but as pattern—a recursive loop born from trauma, difference, and unmet needs. This book connects the dots between neurodivergence, emotional dysregulation, and the search for relief in substances, behaviors, or compulsions.

It doesn’t ask you to try harder.
It helps you understand why you’ve tried so hard already—and why it hasn’t worked.

Most addiction resources assume a neurotypical baseline. This one doesn’t.

Instead, it:

• Explains how neurodivergent brains process overwhelm, boredom, and sensory input
   
• Shows how trauma embeds itself in self-reinforcing loops of behavior
   
• Reveals why “self-sabotage” is often self-preservation misunderstood
   
• Teaches you to work with your brain, not against it
   
• Provides tools grounded in neuroscience, recursion theory, and lived experience
   
• Validates your struggle as logical—not shameful
   

• ✅ Why self-medication is a predictable response to dysregulation
   
• ✅ How trauma, masking, and unmet needs feed the addiction cycle
   
• ✅ What recursive loops are—and how to interrupt them
   
• ✅ Daily healing strategies designed for the neurodivergent nervous system
   
• ✅ How to spot non-obvious addictions (like overthinking, control, or perfectionism)
   
• ✅ How to break generational loops in families where trauma and addiction are inherited
   
• ✅ What “thriving” looks like when you stop trying to be normal and start being true
   

• Neurodivergent individuals (diagnosed or undiagnosed) who are struggling with any form of addiction—substance, behavioral, or emotional
   
• People who’ve tried traditional recovery and felt it didn’t fit
   
• Families seeking to understand and support their loved ones in a new way
   
• Therapists, coaches, and clinicians working with neurodivergent populations
   
• Anyone ready to ask: “What’s actually going on beneath this pattern?”
   

Part I: The Architecture of Different Minds

• Why neurodivergent brains are more sensitive to pain and relief
   
• How trauma + neurodivergence creates recursive coping patterns
   
• Why addiction isn’t random—it’s structurally inevitable in unrecognized systems
   

Part II: Recognizing the Patterns

• How self-medication hides in socially accepted behaviors
   
• Mapping your personal recursive loops
   
• Identifying “masking fatigue” as a precursor to relapse
   

Part III: The Science of Healing

• How trauma physically reshapes the brain—and how to reshape it back
   
• Interruption strategies tailored to neurodivergent energy cycles
   
• Recursive loop completion: what it actually means to finish a trauma pattern
   

Part IV: Building Your New Life

• Daily systems that support regulation, stimulation, and purpose
   
• Repairing fractured relationships—starting with yourself
   
• Healing inherited addiction patterns in your family line
   
• Redefining success through coherence, not compliance
   

“You’re not lazy. You’re not broken. You’re not doomed.
You’re running code that made perfect sense in the environment you grew up in.
This book won’t pathologize you. It will help you understand your logic—so you can change your loop.
Healing isn’t about becoming someone else.
It’s about becoming fully yourself—with nothing left to suppress.”
 

The Hidden Logic of Addiction is not just a book about recovery. It’s a manual for freedom—for understanding the nervous system you inherited, the patterns you’ve repeated, and the healing that becomes possible when you finally see yourself clearly.

Your brain makes sense.
Your story makes sense.
And it’s time for a recovery model that finally reflects that.

The framework has been built, the finished version is under final revision. Coming Soon!