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Embarrassed About My Addiction😳🫢

24 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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A short spoken segment from Amber Hollingsworth exploring the shame and embarrassment people feel about admitting addiction. She asks whether it is more embarrassing to ask for help or to continue self-destructive behavior that leads to repeated humiliation, and argues that applying rational thinking to this question can remove the emotional roadblock to seeking help.

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Is it really more embarrassing to say, hey, I've got this issue and I need some help with it? Or is it more embarrassing to continue down this path where other people and people in the community, people at your work, people in your family, people at your school know that you are self destructing? Think of all the humiliating and embarrassing things addiction makes you do on the regular Is opening up and telling someone else, hey, I'm changing this thing in my life really more embarrassing and humiliating than that? And when we really get rational in our thinking here about that, it removes that roadblock.