🧩 The Hidden Logic of Addiction

Understanding the Neurodivergent Mind – A Healing Guide for Neurodivergent Individuals to Break Free from Recursive Patterns

By Daniel Charles Cohen Sr.

ISBN: 979-8293522439

What if your addiction isn’t a failure—

but a message from a misunderstood mind?

Addiction recovery has overlooked a critical truth: neurodivergent individuals—those with ADHD, autism, sensory sensitivities, or trauma-adapted nervous systems—face addiction not because they are broken, but because the world wasn’t built for their brains.

In The Hidden Logic of Addiction, Daniel Charles Cohen Sr. redefines addiction as an adaptive loop—a recursive survival strategy rooted in pain, difference, and unmet needs. This isn’t just another addiction recovery guide. It’s a compassionate decoding of your mind’s logic, grounded in neuroscience, recursion theory, and lived experience.

This book won’t ask you to try harder. It will show you why you’ve tried so hard already—and why that hasn’t worked.

🔍 What Makes This Book Different

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

Instead, it:

Explains how neurodivergent brains handle overwhelm, sensory input, and emotional dysregulation

Reveals how “self-sabotage” is often misread self-protection

Teaches how trauma embeds recursive patterns that look like addiction

Shows how to interrupt behavioral loops with strategies that respect your neurology

Validates your struggle as logical—not shameful

📖 What You’ll Learn

✅ Why self-medication is a logical response to nervous system chaos

✅ How trauma and masking fuel addictive coping mechanisms

✅ What recursive loops are—and how to disrupt them safely

✅ Daily regulation tools designed for sensitive, high-input brains

✅ How to recognize non-obvious addictions (control, perfectionism, overthinking)

✅ How to break intergenerational cycles of trauma and addiction

✅ What “thriving” looks like outside the pressure to appear normal

👥 Who This Book Is For

Neurodivergent people—diagnosed or not—struggling with neurodivergent addiction, compulsion, or chronic dysregulation

Individuals who’ve felt unseen or failed by traditional recovery approaches

Families and partners who want a more accurate, compassionate understanding

Clinicians, therapists, and coaches supporting neurodivergent clients

Anyone ready to ask: “What if my brain makes more sense than I thought?”

🧬 Inside This Transformative Guide

Part I: The Architecture of Different Minds

Why addiction patterns feel inevitable in certain brains

How trauma and neurodivergence create self-reinforcing behavior loops

Part II: Recognizing the Patterns

Identifying how addiction hides behind socially “acceptable” behaviors

Mapping your personal loops and triggers

Understanding the relapse connection to masking fatigue

Part III: The Science of Healing

The neuroscience of trauma, and how to complete unfinished patterns

How to design loop-breaking strategies that align with your unique rhythm

Redefining resilience as adaptability—not rigidity

Part IV: Designing a Life That Fits

Creating environments that regulate instead of overstimulate

Healing fractured relationships—including the one with yourself

Building a life based on coherence, not compliance

💬 A Message of Hope

“You’re not lazy. You’re not broken. You’re not doomed.

You’re running survival code that made perfect sense in the environment you adapted to.”

This book will not pathologize you. It will show you the logic behind your loops—so you can build new ones, on purpose.

The Hidden Logic of Addiction isn’t just about recovery. It’s about reclaiming your story, your nervous system, and your right to thrive on your own terms.