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Do Addicts Realize They Impact Others?

15 May 2024 · 1 min

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Amber Hollingsworth, in a short YouTube answer segment, explains that addicts often move through "layers of denial" and that early recovery is marked by emotional fragility, shame, and very low self-esteem; as individuals progress and rebuild their lives they typically gain self-esteem and become more able to "own" their impact.

Yes, that is pretty common. The layers of denial sort of peel back one by one, right? There's a bunch of layers that has to peel back just for someone to even get that they have a problem. And early in recovery, people are so emotionally fragile and they're so full of shame and they literally have no self esteem. They don't have enough ego to look at that. The further they come out of it, the more self esteem they have. The more they put their life back together, typically the more they're able to own it and see it.