Revenge is an addictive behavior that activates the same pleasure and reward brain circuitry as drugs and alcohol.

“what the new neuroscience is showing us is that when we're in pain, we feel victimized or we feel humiliated, betrayed, shamed, insulted, disrespected, any of those. Um when we feel that we feel that as a physical pain inside our brain and our brain wants that pain to stop and the most immediate way”