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Physician and author on addiction, stress and childhood development. Wrote In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts and The Myth of Normal, and developed the Compassionate Inquiry approach taught to therapists.
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Addiction is neither a choice nor an inherited disease, but a response to pain: the question is not why the addiction, but why the pain.
It is time to realize, then, addiction is neither a choice nor an inherited disease, but a psychological and physiological response to painful life experiences.
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Compassionate Inquiry Online TrainingTheir words
Compassionate Inquiry is an in depth teaching and distillation of the approach I have developed to working with human beings beset by personal issues, health problems that need gently guided exploration, mental health challenges, addictions, relationship difficulties and, above all, an unhealthy relationship to their own selves.
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From one piece BEYOND DRUGS: The Universal Experience of Addiction 4 beliefs · drgabormate.com
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Treating an addiction without treating the pain underneath it is treating an effect rather than a cause.Their words
to treat the addiction, which is a symptom, without treating the pain that underlies it is to deal in effects rather than in causes, and therefore dooms many to ongoing cycles of suffering
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But trauma is not restricted to horrific experiences. It refers to any set of events that, over time, impose more pain on the child than his or her sensitive organism can process and discharge.
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Childhood trauma is the template for every addiction, including the socially rewarded ones.Their words
Childhood trauma is the template for addiction-any addiction. All addictions are attempts to escape the deep pain of the hurt child, attempts temporarily soothing but ultimately futile.
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It is time to realize, then, addiction is neither a choice nor an inherited disease, but a psychological and physiological response to painful life experiences.
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Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and HealthTheir words
Facing Addiction in America is also the first governmental attempt to ground policy not in prejudice but in research, not in conjecture but in science. It collates an impressive body of evidence to illuminate the pathological processes and impacts of substance addiction in the human brain and body, and suggests evidence-based practices for treatment and prevention.
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Addiction is neither a choice nor an inherited disease, but a response to pain: the question is not why the addiction, but why the pain.
It is time to realize, then, addiction is neither a choice nor an inherited disease, but a psychological and physiological response to painful life experiences.
BEYOND DRUGS: The Universal Experience of Addiction Said 5 Apr 2017
Childhood trauma is the template for every addiction, including the socially rewarded ones.
Childhood trauma is the template for addiction-any addiction. All addictions are attempts to escape the deep pain of the hurt child, attempts temporarily soothing but ultimately futile.
BEYOND DRUGS: The Universal Experience of Addiction Said 5 Apr 2017
Trauma is not confined to terrible events: a child whose parents were too stressed or distracted to see them has been traumatized too.
But trauma is not restricted to horrific experiences. It refers to any set of events that, over time, impose more pain on the child than his or her sensitive organism can process and discharge.
BEYOND DRUGS: The Universal Experience of Addiction Said 5 Apr 2017
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Treating an addiction without treating the pain underneath it is treating an effect rather than a cause.
to treat the addiction, which is a symptom, without treating the pain that underlies it is to deal in effects rather than in causes, and therefore dooms many to ongoing cycles of suffering
BEYOND DRUGS: The Universal Experience of Addiction Said 5 Apr 2017
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Facing Addiction in America is also the first governmental attempt to ground policy not in prejudice but in research, not in conjecture but in science. It collates an impressive body of evidence to illuminate the pathological processes and impacts of substance addiction in the human brain and body, and suggests evidence-based practices for treatment and prevention.
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The articles are where the argument is stated in his own words rather than an interviewer's — addiction as a response to pain, trauma as anything that overwhelms a child, and why treating the addiction without the pain treats an effect.
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