Michael Quinn | From Addiction to Freedom | TEDxtalk 💬👥
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- Accompany Michael Quinn on a stirring voyage as he recounts his tale of addiction, recovery, and liberation. 🌼 While pursuing his undergraduate studies at Pennsylvania State University, Michael became enmeshed in the perilous cycle of drug addiction that befalls numerous university attendees. Now, following several years of sobriety, he bravely shares his victories and tribulations. 💪 Michael illuminates the road to recovery and stresses the value of getting support and assistance via his motivational story. 🙏
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Michael offers insightful reflections and lessons learnt along his journey from addiction to salvation in this moving TEDx lecture. 🎤 His tale is proof of the human spirit's tenacity, taking it from the lowest points of despair to the highest points of hope. 🌈
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Childhood trauma is the gateway to addiction
Yes it certainly is for so many people
Dr. Gabor Mate of Canada has taught this for decades. He said everyone with childhood trauma does not become an addict, but every addict has some childhood trauma they are trying to escape.
I can testify to that
Sometimes
Drugs are big because we grow up after punishment after punishement beat down after beat down it starts at home mom dad child and some families are good some not good but we need to take things from this and teach the future that u dont have to repeat or pay for the past mistakes ur soul is ur soul and u dont have to sell out for no one or lose urself for anyone but everything u do has a ripple effect bad and good and darkness comes to light always u want to be free then there reason why there is rules for good and bad simple
Hey guys this is me talking, just wanted to clarify, this speech wasn't meant to vilify weed, this was just a precursor to the main point of my TEDxTalk... I know no one asked, but here's a few things I'd like to say
1.) It wouldn't have mattered what the substance was, I definitely was dealt a hand that was going to best case: lead me to the rooms of recovery, and worst case: lead to an early death
2.) I smile a lot, mainly out of nervousness, if you watch the whole thing, I acknowledge that the smile is a mask, there's still a lot of pain under it
3.) whether you struggle with addiction or not, most of us have something to mask the pain that we've experienced or continue to experience in life, for a long time, that was drugs and alcohol for me
4.) At the end of the day, I'm just another dude, trying to figure it out like the rest of us, my God is the only thing that can help me, luckily, he sometimes speaks through people like you or the world around me
5.) Whatever you're going through, I wish you good health and love, the only way we can get through this thing is with one another and a higher power of our understanding
Stay beautiful! ODAAT
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@mikequinn34
Much gratitude and appreciation for your courage and bravery for sharing your words and life experiences which helped you grow. Your more of inspiration than you probably know. Much luv, peace, fulfillment , healing , and so much more sent to you luv.
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Thank you for clarifying.
Amen! As long as we stay with Jesus we will be ok and we can have an eternal peace. Prayers and love being sent to you 🙏❤
Describing most ppls childhood & 1st encounter with weed & alcohol.
My story is so similar as a child. Im a recovering addict as well. 29mths clean from a 10yr addiction that began with percocets, then to Oxys, then to heroin which progressed to Fentanyl. Before my opiate addiction I was addicted to cocaine for 7 yrs. I went from owning my home to living in a tent in the bushes for 2yrs. I finally got housing again, and my walk to Sobriety began. I stumbled, tripped and fell many times before I was able to get any significant clean time behind me. This last 29months has been the longest clean time ive had. It feels great. I am blessed to still be alive. ❤❤
Weed, alcohol, and drug addiction has led me to hospitals, jails, probation offices, therapists and psychiatrists. For all of the fun I had in using, the pain it has caused me and my loved ones was at least triple that feeling. 11 years later I am finally embracing recovery, and I could not be more grateful. Thank you for your honesty ❤
Great message - I drank and the knot I'm my belly went away! Good news is, sober since 5/7/1991, we do recover!
Onya
I have a friend who has been in AA for 33 years, sober for the same time, keep going, I can see you are nervous, however you are helping many, keep sober, do that 10 step program
I’ve been sober for 17 years. Addiction is very very hard to overcome. But it can be done. I started in the 70s as a teenager drinking and smoking pot. I was not in every day drinker. I was a binge drinker. Put myself into treatment in 2007. I’ve been so happy ever since it’s a whole different world, but it was not easy to attain
And yet, he is smiling the entire time.
He looks stoned
He's full of shii
@@Gently225agree.
@@NatalieMcCabe-wh6ni I'm high niw😂👍
One day at the time! Bless you😊
Man-made alcohol, God made weed; so trust in God, and save your seed🌱
I remember the first time . I was in 8th grade and my brother gave me MDMA before school . He said to me that this pill will make you feel like you never felt before and he was so right. I finally felt like I was one with everyone, one with students. A special kind of love story. A One Story
I was 12 when I smoked weed and drank, acid and coke at 13, and on we went to have a heroin and meth addiction from 20 to 30. I am clean 21 years. Find your way. 12 step or methadone, or whatever. Find your way to get clean. Clarity takes time but it does come
Methodone was harder to get off than anything I ever done..14 years I was on it ..and man that stuff gets in u.....avoid that stuff..and go with bupernorphine...
Thanks for telling your story. Sometimes it's just that people suddenly feel like they belong
My back surgery led to a severe opioid addiction. I've been sober for 4 years, best choice i ever made.
Hero. Thank you for being so honest!
Hero ?!? Really ?!! You've got to be kidding - he's probably stoned out of his mind as we speak -
Hero?
Learning to breath into your stomach from a very young age can arm a child against the negatives of school life
I feel you
❤❤GOD BLESS YOU 🙏😇.
KEEP IT REAL
Weed is not the “gateway” to addiction. We’ve known that for _decades_ already. Childhood trauma and mental illness is where addiction comes from - not smoking a j with friends at the park.
All weed is not created equal. They are seeing a high incidence of weed induced psychosis especially among those who started smoking as younger teens when their brains were still forming.
Marijuana is the first step to addiction. Unfortunately people who haven’t hit rock bottom are in denial.
Once marijuana is not enough and alcohol and other substances are added, life will open your eyes.
Once you suffer enough that you can’t take it anymore, you’ll remember how everything started and you’ll wish, you never had that first puff.
It’s never only marijuana, that’s just the beginning.
@@doracampos2088I’ll have to share your opinion with my 2 friends. They both smoke weed EVERY day! Unfortunately, they both own their own businesses that do millions of dollars in sales every year. They both have huge beautiful houses with wives and children that are very happy. They go on amazing vacations and trips and go to church every Sunday. They have been smoking weed since they were teenagers or in their early twenties and now are in their late thirties/ early forties. I’ll let them know that they are headed for rock bottom!
He never said it was. You're judging a tiny little clip of a speech without context.
@@doracampos2088Or alcohol or how it begins with a way to escape.. It's so many options along the way and different from person to person, but those two are usually the gateway for many..
Keep on keeping on ....one day at a time ....
Sober Recovery Date: December 23, 1978 with gratitude! Blessings!
Firsts are sometimes the best
Attorney, here we call it a gateway truck. Or more or less like a ping pong. There's never enough. It just goes up higher and down. Load or the high or download, no drugs. No drugs or drugs unless medically necessary. They become an albatross around your neck. A mother begged me once to keep her daughter in jail for Christmas because she would just go out drug hunting. Bless you for coming out.I believe you're full and total recovery.Because I've seen that over and over again.Drugs will be forever in your past as well.Alcohol a bad people that lie god bless you
Im addicted to anything makes me feel good ive taken every drug every way but alcohol and cocaine ultimately took everything from me tht i loved and left me with me because i didn't love me i still struggle to and im in recovery. Being a musician guitar player my heroes where dead or high i idolised them. No communication in the home and a overbearing drunk father who was an emotion cripple and i was born with spina bifida a mild for that got worse needing me an addict to take pills 💊 ive been 2 years 6 months now im 27 days after nearly dying ftom withdrawal from my meds and alcohol im thankful for another chance at life i take dusulfram anti abuse so i cant drink ot ill go into toxic shock im 46 im just finding peace with me and almost acceptance of my disability, addiction doesn't descriminate
Don't stop trying to heal! I follow The Crappy Childhood Fairy and Patrick Teahan on CZcams. Even the shorts can open your eyes to who you've been, why you were trying to escape. Most important tool for me is learning to ask myself questions, believing my inner spirit knows the answer and a way out of a dilemma. The answer will come, either through enlightened thinking orco incidences outside myself. We are all connected and intertwined with a Universal energy of goodness. It's for us to use! XXOO
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Smoking weed can be useful for people recovering from higher addictions
My one piece of advice, don’t smoke daily or even every other day that’s where it loses it’s fun and it becomes an addiction
If you have an addictive personality then possibly steer clear
100% in agreement. Some folks have no problems with weed whatsoever; many others will be unable to stop smoking and will become miserable when sober.
I smoked every day for 15 years.
I never got addicted to weed.
Opiates came later. Different story with those lil devils.
I cant smoke anymore because it gives me severe anxiety. I'm too old.
Daily use of weed is fine for some people
We believe in you !
he still looks high as a kite😂
The reason people become addicts is because they like the feeling that it elicits. Until it doesn't. It ruins every relationship. It takes away any financial gain. It will bankrupt you. Any friends you have will leave you. This is only a partial of the actuality of abuses of alcohol.
Actually the main reason people become addicts is a coping mechanism for trauma. Generally in early childhood but not always. Another reason is being prescribed medications (opioids). And this is agreed upon buy almost all professionals in the field of addiction. Dr. Gabore mate being the leasing expert on the subject. Listen to some of his stuff on CZcams. I know because I was an IV drug user. I was a using addict for over twenty years. Hard core drugs like meth and heroin and fentanyl and such. I spent a year of my life in residential treatment. I tried extremely hard to get clean. I studied everything I could on addiction. Read the books, took the courses. Got three different certificates from treatment centres where I lived with therapists and psycologists and a whole lot of other addicts. That’s the fact of why people become addicts. Our brains are wired differently than other people who aren’t addicts. It’s a strange thing. So to overcome it you have to heal from the trauma. And that is no easy feat. I think it’s only 2% of people who get clean from IV drug use. The worst way you can get high is with a needle. Most people die on it before they ever get clean. And trust me, I didn’t like the feeling on meth. It was a horrifying nightmare. Yeah you got a crazy rush the moment it goes in your vein but then it was instant hell. Paranoia like you can’t imagine. Terrifying hallucinations, just a nightmare. Yet I’d do anything to get more. It’s horrible. 3 years clean now.
Thank you for sharing your truths, it is important for people to hear such reality. Proud of you 👏 and to know you are in recovery ❤ 👍 good on you, you got this, keep going 💪 👍
Anything that gets you high or buzzed or whatever you want to call it is a gateway to addiction- addiction is behind the gate - something has to open it 😡😡😡😡😡
Like alcohol.
@@jamesbyrnes716 yes -Anything-even alcohol !!!!
I pray that you stay strong and be proud of yourself for admitting you are an addict. Help others if you are able to and make a difference not only in your life b it others.
Some Dolphins get High on Porpoise
I think we all have different experiences and clearly effects from Drugs and Alcohol. Some people can handle it and others can't. Simple as that. I hope all addicts find strength in their lives , and everyone else keeps it in recreational moderation. 😊
probably still high off that weed. Smiling from ear to ear. 😂
That first hit of weeed is where it starts
I was 14 years old when I first tried weed I belive I was an addict when I was born I'm now 47 years old my.life has been totally overshadowed by drugs !!! I hope I recover xx
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I'm a licensed PRSS if anyone wants help without judgement I'm here to listen ❤
What started me using?
The need to succeed and function in this complicated world.
And pills made everything so easy. I could work with no breaks
I wish i started using before i went to university i probably would have done better.
Not a good choice but not being able to focus or handle the work load, despite having great grades through HS. That's what started my addiction.
Been clean for 15 years. But i know see how i was self medicating due to mental health issues ❤😊
I can relate it filled up that whole
I love you bebrother
Like blaming baby formula for a ribeye craving. Maybe its the person's appetite.
Typical comment from a person in denial.
Matthew Perry had the same experience with alcohol
we all do
Life is precious so don't waste it coz it only exists once so use it wisely. Once we r dead life doesn't give u another chance.
There is freedom in recovery. Sobriety date 7-24-22
Yes once a drug addic always a addic
Disagree
@@jasonfusaro2170 you know I think you might be kinda right because now that im older I don't crave anything anymore
@@nicholecornes1915 Was an addict most of my early life 18 years, gave it up 22 years ago, it's history. My path out of it was Gods grace and turning to Jesus.
A particular organization pushes that weakness on people keeping them trapped in the belief they'll never free themselves from what they call the disease of addiction.
Same with a lot of things considered as addictions.
Willpower and faith.
In addition to detaching from any and all negative influences and people.
Peac
Thats what it is , breathe easier, humans need to day dream, meditate, laugh, dance, its in all of us, we need to to this, we need to breathe easier, slow down.
How dare we actually just smoke a plant that makes us feel good and leave it at that?! Not all of us get addicted or go to other drugs like alcohol sorry for u
In recovery ❤❤❤
Marijuana is not the gateway to addiction. BEER IS ☝️💯
You are in denial. Theres been a billion hard core addicts who first started with smoking weed... feeling a high.
Weed never got me Addicted to anything Else
Yea the Beer and them pills got him
Marijuana is the door to addiction! 💯
And now in some states it is legal. But ppl in pain can't get relief!!!
Animo
sooooo u recovering from addiction with a different drug in return?!?!?!?!?! whahahahaha this is fk hilarious, this video literally say nothing about how he got off of or started with his addiction
It’s probably hard for you to comprehend a lot of things I see you are struggling with literacy.
Exactly the same life path as me but I’m still drowning in cocaine 200k debt at 35
The trouble is....
All addiction starts with association with others.
Yes it does. You would of never started on your own. You didn't wake up one day and decided you wanted to drink or drug.
Marijuana is the first step to addiction. Unfortunately people who haven’t hit rock bottom are in denial.
Once marijuana is not enough and alcohol and other substances are added, life will open your eyes.
Once you suffer enough that you can’t take it anymore, you’ll remember how everything started and you’ll wish, you never had that first puff.
It’s never only marijuana, that’s just the beginning.
Except your wrong the whole marijuana leads you to other drugs is bullshit it’s all about the people you surround yourself with and your mindset
Have you ever tried marijuana? lol it’s been disproven that it’s a gateway drug. Plenty of people just like weed and don’t do anything else or have even tried anything else.
@@saradiaz2277 I’m not surprised of your opinion. It’s the typical opinion of an addict. Always in denial. Only time will tell.
I just read a comment of a man saying that he used to think the same way as you. He said he smoked only weed for 15 years until it wasn’t enough and he tried other stuff.
It’s clear weed is the gateway to addiction!
@@doracampos2088 lol facts matter. You’re referencing a single persons experience and generalizing. Not everyone is going to have the same response to marijuana or other things. You’re obviously bitter about your own experiences with addiction either through yourself or someone else dear. And this is hindering your ability to accept the research lol people who go on to abuse other substances beyond marijuana already have preexisting addictions to other things like tobacco and alcohol. There are also biological influences that increases a persons risk to develop addiction. There so many reasons why people abuse drugs. I’d work on trying to understand someone’s emotional pain instead of being a judgmental Karen
@@doracampos2088 Typical opinion of an addict!? 😂 Takes one to know one. Lady. How about you google the current literature and find out for yourself that cannabis is not a gateway drug.
100 percent same. I really miss those days when i first started smoking bud at 13. It was like being in a cartoon world and my imagination ran wild and i felt so good. Even with really strong bud i don't get that anymore. Also he's blazed as a mf during this talk 😆 😂
It's funny cause every single time I smoked weed I feel like I don't breathe well
Naww, it's the path chosen for you in life that does it to you "everyone," but it's the path chosen for you i feel cause I was there in front of my addiction for years.. until my uncle sadly used my self control against me to get me addicted until i was squized empty and usless to him but he would do it again if giving the chance I'm sure
But just stay away from everything unless your ready for the repercussions from the decisions you make ... can't tell you twice ...
You should try meth did it for 23 years it’s amazing,we should legalize it
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Learn to know limitations that's goes along way.
This doesn't happen to children with parents
Im sorry i dont understand this. I have been smoking weed since i was roughly 16. Not once has it ever lead to me doing anymore than that. Please stop saying that using weed first was the gateway drug to doing other drugs. Its not. Maybe for some people but i think its caused by another want or need thats stronger than what weed can provide. So i feel ots not necessarily the weed itself. But congrats for your recovery!
It wasn’t for you ….. it was for him
You can't be an addict or alchoholic in recovery, Jesus can take the root of this addiction away completely deliverance, healing complete restoration. Infuriates me to settle for those words
Speaking death over yourself you are not a drug addict in recovery you are a son of a living God the head and not the tail, you are more than a conqueror in Christ Jesus ♥️ ✝️ 🛐 go to ⛪ ✝️ 🙏 🛐 and fall in love with your saviour
If you were hospitalized at 15 for alcohol then you had many problems. Smoking weed was the least of them.
That's just like when people say oh addiction is a disease no diseases are caused by bacteria and germs and diseases are typically choices that we make so people really need to stop referring to it as a disease and stop blaming weed for making you a drug addict we didn't make you do it cuz there's plenty of people that still smoke weed and do nothing else and never have just like my mother
Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions 😂
Zac efforts jaw formed into a face
Not so innocent starts the same as most if you ask . Me ..
I've noticed that a lot of addicts trying to do this they just try and point the finger at anything else that they can to blame their addiction on anything else except for themselves and I know people aren't going to agree with me but addiction isn't a disease a disease is something that you don't typically choose
Exactly. You don't choose mental health disorders which is what often leads to substance abuse.
@@AK-47-yall that's another excuse that's a cop out to avoid any accountability because not every single addict can blame their addiction on mental illness it stems from a lot of different things... But to sit and call addiction a disease flat out so people can say oh it's not my fault it's a disease I have a disease it's not my fault no that's nonsense and I've heard people use that exact excuse and that's why I'm so against it literally my cousin uses the same excuse
@@AK-47-yall you said exactly and you don't choose mental disorders which most of the time is what leads to substance abuse well thank you for proving my point... Just because mental illness leads to addiction in SOME cases doesn't make addiction a disease by extension that's not how that works because people can get treated for mental issues and at the same time you're basically saying that anyone with mental issues is potentially an addict which is also nonsense
@@AK-47-yall yeah my cousin literally says the same exact thing she says it's a disease it's a disease so she shouldn't be thrown in jail she shouldn't be punished you know what she did she got so high off heroin that her kid who's not even a year old ended up getting into it overdosing and died three times on the way to the hospital luckily he was saved and all her kids taken away but it shouldn't have never got to that point she should have been in jail already but you got all these people saying oh it's a disease it's a disease it's not a disease that's a straight-up excuse choosing to pick up that needle and stick it in your arm is a choice that is not a disease that is a choice to look at it in any other way is completely insane only a junkie would look at it like that see I take responsibility for the things that I've done when I was using 100 % and I have absolutely no respect for anybody who doesn't take accountability for what they've done
Don't blame the pot, it's the people you surrounded yourself with
I'm a sober man now and I've been detox and iop many times so I know what I'm talking about.
Weed didn’t make you do drugs you made you do drugs
Each person is unique in how they respond to mind altering plants, your story is not his story, simple as that
I have hit rock bottom and I'm in recovery as well, I'm also a Navy Veteran who has severe PTSD. Medical Marijuana does help with my PTSD. Just saying.
Dude high speaking the dry mouth lol
So weed is great and alcohol is bad. Ok cool cool
This guy looks like Clark Kent. He deserves to be the next Superman.
Weed is not a gateway. It's if you are an addicted personality. Weed chills you out. I didnt even like it. It was not why I did anything els. Ppl need weed for medical reasons. Not gunna trash it now. Ppl who have an addict personality will chace a high.
You a are never recovery you will always be a person that you made your self you will always Jones!!! Im not a recovering alcohol !!! Im a alcoholic !!! Don't try to hind because you talk about it!!! yes i quit drinking!!! That's just today!!
See weed is a gateway drug..... As soon as you take one drug it makes you wanna just try em all
Should have stayed on weed the sex is also amazing 😂 alcohol's the devil smoke weed all day
It's alright bro, one day you'll realize it's no longer fun and it starts being sad. The fked up part is that you won't even remember when it started being sad. It just hits you like a ton of bricks. I smoked since I was 11 and said I'd be in the old home smoking til the day I died.
@@Slugggahits hard bro. Only score once a quarter I would say.
man I just fall asleep gettin laid while I'm stoned... and I'm not even the one receiving
You smoke weed for long enough and I guarantee you sex won't feel good , taken from someone who has smoked it for 25 years
@@Sluggga I’ve never done any drugs in my life but I’ve experienced the struggle with my 25 yo son.
He also started at 11. My poor son lives in a deep sadness. He cries so much while asleep. I hear his deep pain and gently wake him up. Once awake he pretends to be perfectly fine. As a mother it kills me. 💔
I wish I knew what he was really doing at 11 when I thought he was having healthy kids fun.
This is why marijuana should have never been legalized. No one wakes up one day and says I think I will become a meth addict today. It starts with marijuana. Every single time for every single person. I was in law enforcement way over 30years... that's how I know.
35 years a day at a time still 😂
Come on dude
Weed was not the problem....
bro is so stoned 😭
Do you want a sticker?
Stop whining.
We all have problems. If monetizing your problems is your life. Get a job.
He's trying to blame marijuana for his addictive personality.
Marijuana is the first step to addiction. Unfortunately people who haven’t hit rock bottom are in denial.
Once marijuana is not enough and alcohol and other substances are added, life will open your eyes.
Once you suffer enough that you can’t take it anymore, you’ll remember how everything started and you’ll wish, you never had that first puff.
It’s never only marijuana, that’s just the beginning.
@@doracampos2088 boo hoo
If it was marijuana it would be something else. He has an addictive personality to try and blame it on the first drug he tried is bullshit.
@@bluebeard6189 The only way to know if a person has addictive tendencies or personality like you said, is unfortunately until they’re already addicted.
@@doracampos2088I'm smoking weed since my 20s I'm 50 now and have never tried any hard drugs so weed doesn't always end up trying any harder drugs.
Stop the weed for a week and listen again, he spoke about how he felt, was for him personally, it was weed, for others it is alcohol, my father was an alcoholic, for the same reasons. Listen carefully
Should have stuck with weed and not go to alcohol
Where is in the innocents in drinkung at 15 in school? Drinking into oblivion is pretty sure what he did....smf
The Mouth noise in between words 🥴🥴
Too bad people can't just stick to weed. :)~
Which drugs was this fella addicted to? He didn’t mention any.
Okay dude shut up weed doesn't lead to all of that and it doesn't it's that you can say it's a gateway drug all you want but there's plenty of people out there that smoke weed that have never touched anything else I have been clean and sober for 10 over 10 years now from heroin and I still smoke weed to this day because it helps me stay off of heroin so I get very I do get very offended when people try and use the excuse oh the weed made me do it... No the weed didn't make you do it you made you do it just like when people try and say oh addiction is a disease no it's not that's an excuse
Speak from the heart man, not a speech
All Ted talkers sound the same! 😂
Don't blame weed for your lack of will power...you could have just stuck with the weed and you probably would have been fine 😂
Yeah, then why didn’t you just stick with the weed?
It’s not the weeds fault that you went looking for other crap get over it
I just read a comment saying that he stuck to only weed for 15 years until he didn’t.
I don’t know how old you are but I’m gonna guess you’re very young and you still don’t know where weed is gonna take you to. Be careful 🙏
This guy doesn't give me the sense of authenticity that I think anyone who's hit their own rock bottom would be leading with when speaking on stage. Looks like an attention loving narcissist.