My father covered up his shame of loss through brooding and sadness, and my mother expressed hers through neediness and unrelenting anger, including anger at me. The velocity of loss adds to the treacherous nature of this particular addiction. My father would spend a lot of time on the phone or away, taking long drives presumably for work—but who really knows? They note that “this is a highly adaptive, but erroneous, decision-making mechanism, where anchoring on the most recent event alters the psychological representations of substantial and accumulated loss in the past to a representation of negligible loss. The steeper the delay discounting, the greater the subjective value of the gamble (over normal ranges of discounting steepness).