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Is it advisable to watch this with an addict or get them into treatment 1st. Any good videos on kids that seem to be taking this unfortunate road. Thanks. Separate issues

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You can't fix health anxiety. You just have to deal with it and accept that most of the time most people are very healthy. people don't need as much medication as they are taking.

Watched this a couple years ago newly sober and it helped me so much. Watching it again almost 4 years sober and it's just as powerful. Thank you for your hard work❤❤

Decisional balance will help start illiciting the negative consequences from the clients' experience with addiction.

I have been to the Oxford Treatment Center. It is nothing more than an insurance money grabbing place. I put myself bin this place to head off becoming an alcohol. Prevented maintenance if you will. I was to be there on a Saturday. The contact person worried me to no end about what time I would be there. I gave a time and asked why it was so important to nail down a time. He said because a nurse would be there to meet me. I was on time and no nurse to meet me. Some lady told me to wait in my truck and a nurse would talk to me in the parking lot. In the parking lot!!! Not professional. First place you go is detox wearing scrubs. I asked if I could wear my own cloths. They said no. I get to detox and some are in their own cloths. I get pissed over the lying to me. They give me some drug and put me in a room without any real supervision where shortly later that drug caused me to fall down four times not to mention the double vision. After detox you go to these cabins. I’m 61 years old and these young girls called TA’s come around checking on the patients. There are only men in the cabin in two man rooms. These girls don’t knock on your door they just open it up and look in. Degrading. Girls thirty or more years younger walking in on me without even knocking on the door. I had just got out of the shower and was about to put on some boxer shorts when I heard someone say something to the woman who was in the cabin. I had only a few seconds to grab some pajama bottoms and get them on just as the door opens. I was so mad I slammed the door in her face. I told a counselor about it but they don’t care. I told them about detox, about falling four times. They don’t care. They treat you with disrespect. They treat you like a child. They talk to like you are a child. They ignore you when you ask questions. There is a lot more I can say about this sorry place but it would take so long. I am not saying anything against the man in this video. What he has to say is helpful but I didn’t see anything like this when I was there. One of their employees acted in a hostile aggressive manner toward me when I was pissed at another employee and that was the wrong thing to do. I told him I would put him on the floor because I had had enough of their crap. I was going to leave there anyway but enough is enough. They said I couldn’t stay but I wasn’t anyway. I became public enemy #1. They couldn’t wait to get me gone. I left my hearing aids there by mistake so I called. They had my number cut off so I couldn’t get through. I know some other people who have been there and they have nothing good to say about them. I no a person who use to work there and they say the place has gone down hill. The place is a joke. I wish I could tell everything but as I said it would take to long.

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Play the tape, remember all of the destruction, misery, and chaos it brought in your life.

man the thing with addiction being a disease just seems off to me, don't get me wrong I can agree to a point but the problem I have is it gives people an excuse instead of admitting there's a problem they can just excuse themselves they have a disease. don't get me wrong addiction sucks I know personally but its not on the same level heart disease etc etc.

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this is the best explanation of science and addiction I have ever learnt... Thanks so much

Your lecture is so useful. Thank you for put it on CZcams.

What about if the shame is useing the drug

This was unbelievable...I am Sam...nearly finished step 1

Omg ...I can't wait tell you just blow my head off..

Brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thank goodness he asked what the 10 is bc I was wondering the same

Sounds crazy but I quit every form of sugar and starch. I had a month of on and off withdrawls. And other addiction deprivation reactions. For it being a healthy dietary change, my brain and body threw some fits.

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"... we can see a difference in the brain", yes, however: Normal? They never define "Normal". What is "Normal" in a highly artificial civilization? More accurate would be "someone who can function in the current society in which (s)he finds himself/herself". How much of the difference is one of degree? In other words, non-addicts also act on impulse. The lecturer even gives an example. What's more, it's fun to act on impulse, to let go, to let loose. Addicts get to act on impulse a lot more! Hence, it is fun to be an addict . . . at least for a while, at least more fun to be an addict than to be around an addict.

Addicts say 90% of their regrets come from their addiction? Fallacy. Dangerous fallacy. We ALL have regrets. Addicts want to be special. You are not. Your regrets are my regrets. And once you quit drugs you will see those regrets are still there and still piling up. Do not expect that getting clean will make much difference in your life. You will be disappointed. There is also no external prize for kicking your habit.

Thank you so much. Very helpful presentation.

This is really bad. Don't quit your day job.

Brilliant. Simply brilliant.

What if you don't wanna sleep with other addicts???

Withdrawals from Benzos right now and wishing someone would kill me ( not really) but yes ITS HORRIBLE ☠️ I’ve had cancer twice with chemo radiation surgery etc and detoxing from Klonopin is worse

Going thru drug withdrawals for couple weeks from opioids and this helps Me logically understand better what my brain is going thru , great lesson and thank you 🙏 🧠

I show this video to many recovering addicts. It is in the top 3 I recommend.

I wish I would've heard and understood this lecture back when I was Tom and Sam's age. Now I do but what's next. It would have been best to have people with the right information instead of the D.A.R.E program back in our day.

I really enjoy these videos, i work in addictions in the uk and found this very helpful.

I don’t want to kill myself

The Big Book does not have anything about addiction being a disease, because all this is fairly new. This is why some insurance companies are starting to cover treatment for drug addiction and such. Because, addiction is now listed as a disease (in the brain). I think he does an amazing job. It was very educational for family members who do not understand about the disease, as well as people who suffer with it. Just speaking for myself, friends and family. Hope y’all have a wonderful day!

It's NOT a disease and it doesn't say so in AA big book. He's mistaken.

Thank you so much for sharing. On a value scale of 1 to 10, your videos are a 15! Many blessings to you, to yours and in all you do.

Thank the goodness for this 🌹

Omg he rambles

Get to the point. Why talk about what your going to talk about and just say it

Addiction is not a moral failure but a brain disease. Once we understand this the society will be able to manage this pandemic.

Here's the thing if you carry something unpleasant you've done with you, And you have truly learned from whatever it was. You Keep it in the back of your head so it doesn't happen again, because you're someone you can live a 100% completely straight life, kind of like when a dog stops shiting on the floor. you won't do those things again if you truly understand them. if you're someone who lets It Fade then you're more than likely to make those mistakes a second time