The Link Between Trauma and Addiction
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
- Do you use alcohol, drugs or something else to try to change how you feel?
In this video, I explore the relationship between trauma and addiction, whether it's alcohol, drugs, or other coping mechanisms.
I also talk about the ways we deceive ourselves into thinking we don’t need to change, as well as the three stages of how to break free from addiction.
0:00 Introduction
2:04 The link between trauma and addiction
3:38 How to break free
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What’s the story you tell yourself about the thing you are addicted to?
Smoking has been the 1 consistent throughout my life. Huge battle it feels now i am attempting to stop it for love for myself and my body.
Overeating.It's calming. For couple minutes and after I get nervous, because i ate to much sweets.
I'm the same. I think I'm addicted to sugar. I can't even bear the thought of giving it up. It feels like life wouldn't be worth living.
"I need that in my life, that's helping me."
I enjoy being in the limbo between life and death and the adrenaline in the moment and after I survived.
I tell myself I did my job, I deserve peace, play out full stories in my mind.
I still have a normal, function life
I feel I smoke to give myself a sense of control. A way of kicking back.
Sleeping tablets. Benzos calm the nervous system, not the heavy ones, the mild ones. I'm trying to cut down. If there's a support group let me know.
For me it's alcohol... up until my other half died I was keeping everything under rapes, then when he died my whole world imploded at first then exploded and then 18months later lost my son to drugs and there was a3 yrs investigation into my husband's death which I was leading, then lost my grandson, it just hasn't stopped and now it's 10yrs on!!!
I dont believe I can feel ok in the world without it. I don't have any memories of feeling ok, I only have the knowing sense of a time when everything was ok. That time, or place, might be non-existence..
Please Crack that one for me❤
Hi I was encouraged to smoke as a young child and now I have been smoking for years I feel I can't stop because I used the smoking to help me because no one else would I had no one so I told myself as a young child that it's going to help because I was so alone and hurting so much now having arthritis my nerves system is so disregulated and bad eyesight because I didn't get that much food as a kid scared alone not getting the help I so desperately needed as a child
I can’t stop
Carbs and sugar
Alcohol is the only savior
I'm hungry. I'm always hungry, until I'm so full I'm very uncomfortable. Then an hour or two later I'm hungry again. It's an emptiness that won't go away.
Beer and tobacco 😢😪😪😪😪
For me it's cigarettes. I tell myself that I'm not addicted and that it doesn't cause cancer because we don't know what causes cancer anyway
i am feeling trap becust my emotions in my body becust talk to myself in mhy head a lot i get not saw ho i am an more in my life iam lose my self in my body i get loss thins in my head i cant it out in my body my sefe