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Don't Sweat the Small Stuff

10 Jun 2024 · 1 min

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A short transcript excerpt of a YouTube video (Amber Hollingsworth) offering practical therapeutic advice for people supporting loved ones in addiction recovery. The speaker warns caregivers not to pressure someone about minor habits (e.g., caffeine) because it undermines credibility and influence, and notes that people often minimize secondary addictions (e.g., saying alcohol isn’t a problem when using cocaine).

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Not only am I telling you that I don't think it's the best thing to push them on therapeutically in this recovery process, I'm also telling you because let's say your loved one is working on stopping heroin or something, and then you're all of a sudden on them about caffeine drinks. You will have just totally destroyed any kind of credit you have with this person because they are going to be thinking, oh my gosh, you are never happy. It's never enough. You are just too extreme. You're black and white thinker or something like that. And they're gonna. Any kind of work that you've done from watching these, about building your credibility score, getting all the bag of roll, you're gonna ruin it from that. So do not use your influence on that. Okay? Now, when it comes to stuff like someone has multiple addictions, let's say someone's using cocaine and they're also drinking alcohol frequently, what you'll see is that a person will say, I'm really addicted to the cocaine. The alcohol is not really a problem.