A speaker argues that recovery from trauma requires taking full responsibility for your own actions instead of blaming external factors. He says honest self-assessment about wrongdoing is essential, or you'll either be destroyed by avoidance or eventually have to face the truth anyway.
You're responsible for your fucking self. Stop blaming everything on everything else. We live in a world where we deflect. We deflect everything onto everyone. And we don't like taking responsibility for a single thing. And I think the part of recovery is that you have to take responsibility that, yes, you were paranoid. Yes, you stole. Yes, you did something horrible. And you have to face that. You really have to face that part that you didn't want to face. Hmm. And that's being honest with yourself because it's either honest that you did something wrong, it's the reason why you're here, Or you are trying to block out things that took place. You have to face that. And at some point in time, either it kills you or it destroys you, or you come to terms with it, you know? And you get— and this is the part, it's, it's, it's— I have to say to people, recovery is not easy. Depending on— like, all of us in this room have been traumatized. So you're talking to people who've been really fucked up trying to cover over stuff.
