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Help an Addict/Alcoholic

1 Apr 2023 · 1 min

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This is a brief excerpt from a YouTube video by Amber Hollingsworth giving practical advice on how to motivate someone with an addiction. She emphasizes finding the individual's internal motivation by listening non-judgmentally until they reveal what they're unhappy about, then using that insight to encourage change.

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And you have to find what they care about. You have to find what their motivation for change is. And I know you're probably thinking, well, they say they like doing whatever they're doing and they're never going to quit. Well guess what? Every person I've ever seen told me that. So don't even listen to that. That, that don't mean nothing. Everyone says that at some point. Everyone thinks that at some point. It's not even that they don't believe it. But I promise you there is something inside of them that's unhappy about something related to the addiction, about the problems that it's causing, about the effects of whatever the addiction is. And if you can listen non judgmentally long enough, they'll tell that to you. But you have to be listening for it. And when you find that, then you can use that little piece to motivate them. But it has to come from within.