Complex Trauma - Setting us up for Addiction

We need to look at addiction differently, and it’s through the lenses of Complex Trauma. Complex Trauma is at the root of all kinds of problems, one of the most devastating being addiction. When people grow up in survival mode, the limbic brain over-develops, leaving the body in pain and searching for immediate relief. Drugs and alcohol (among other things) provide instant gratification from this pain. So until we learn how to deal with Complex Trauma, we won’t be able to deal with addiction.
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[doddeddo]

Yeah I'm an addict and that environment unfortunately is called the world. It's a disgrace how people normalize abusing others, especially young people, with zero knowledge of the grave repercussions it causes in both individuals and society all over the world. I hope the Dr.'s message reaches more people

[maximisatwat]

Being in danger also gives you a persistent sense of being in danger.

[paulagoeringer]

Constant stress like that is like red lining an engine. Not good. It burns out a lot of not only emotions and how you deal with them, but your physical health too. It's severly draining on you entirely.

[beckythornton]

You could not have described my life any more clearly. I spent 40 years battling heroin addiction. I did learn about CPTSD and started understanding myself and what happened in my life, especially as a child. When I was helped to learn how to stop hurting myself, so much healing happened for me. I have 5 years of recovery, and send daily blessings to all the people who gave me the information and showed me how to practice a real life. Thank you

[kaystephens]

As my histrionic mother said, out of the horses mouth, "You gotta be careful what you get used to". Too little too late.

[Hawaiiansky]

I cry when I remember the one person who made me feel safe; who they had to destroy / get rid of, by convincing him that I was a terrible person and convincing me that he was a terrible person. Without him in my life, that safety disappeared. I was not safe anywhere, with anyone. Er go, I shrugged at real dangerous situations, around very dangerous people, and upon being abused / exploited / taken advantage of.
A lifetime later, I'm re-learning who I am and what the truth was and is.

[Outlawcozyjails]

That’s why it’s so hard to stop. You’re telling me I have to put down the one thing that has worked? That’s a scary, scary proposition.

[manyBlessingsall]

Thank you for explaining this so clearly and in your other videos. Please also include food & sugar-addiction. Also the difficulty letting in love also makes other ways to 'soothe' more attractive.

[fulgore]

I have over 50 herbal supplements. Nothing changes my state more like alcohol. There's nothing more painful that wanting to be present with people, but dissociating or having a flashback. Having cPTSD is extremely lonely.

[maureensherman]

Agree. I’ve been clean and sober 40 years hanging in by my finger nails at time. Before trauma was even discussed. Hard road for awhile but I knew my brain wasn’t diseased but my thinking and emotional life was unmanageable even with successfully managing 3 programs.
Wasn’t till I went down the rabbit hole training in a few things early childhood, Bessel Vanderkolks “The body keep’s score” studying the brain and neuroscience and the nervous system did it all come together.
Watched so many die and so grateful I was in a mission for my freedom.

[wmad]

This was my experience in order to survive.

[cuddlemuff]

Tim Fletcher is an outstanding pastor he is trying very hard to make a difference.

[queenj.i]

Soooo grateful for all these studies and research and talks and videos about these things! More, more, more pls! Too many humans still have such little to zero understanding of psychology & physiology!!

God bless! 🙏🏽💎

[yossichippim]

Yes Tim. More free parenting workshops are sorely required. 👼👼🏼👼🏿

[paulaankrah]

I've just been diagnosed CPTSD and i was in active addiction from when i was 12 till I was 42, Thankfully had a pyschic change in 2022!

[ashoftmrw]

Food - especially sugar - addiction is a big one too. It’s less dramatic because it doesn’t really alter the mind in the same way so people aren’t as unpredictable but it’s a serious addiction many people with cPTSD contend with. Lots and lots of overweight and obese people with significant developmental trauma.

I mean, the whole ACE Study was borne out of two doctors who ran a weight loss clinic for severely obese women realizing just how many of the women had been beaten and molested as children

[Bishop]

I did any and all drugs for almost 10yrs, and the Dr. Is right💯❗️ When I was on drugs I was so just numbed up couldn’t feel a thing . I’ve been clean & sober for 11 yrs. But I still have hella bad drug dreams😢 where I am always trying to get drugs & get high but never can get everything I need to do them😡🤬🤯😱😫😤

[cynthiarogers]

Yes Sir!! Ten yrs clean...EVERYDAY IS A STRUGGLE..

[schaschuschascho]

I love your way of shining light on these topics. Thank u.

[MsCaterific]

I must be part of the 3% who is not an addict, unless you consider isolation and OCD behaviours of an addict. My trauma taught me the need to control my environment, while I believe that substance addiction is more about not caring about the threatening environment and offering a false sense of safety.