Amber Hollingsworth shares how to help someone admit they have an addiction. Keep conversations casual and short, and normalize addiction to reduce the shame that makes admitting feel catastrophic. Admission is different from action.
You can't force someone to admit that they have an addiction. But there are some ways to get someone to admit to the issue without trying to force them. Keep the conversation as casual and short as possible. Take my word for it, keeping it lighter will help them see it faster. Now, strategy number two is to somewhat normalize the idea of having an addiction. Basically, you have some bad image in your head, and if you can help people see that these days, addiction is everywhere. And kind of like almost everyone develops an addiction addiction, then what you're doing is you're making the concept of having an addiction feel not so terrible, which means admitting that you have one doesn't make you a terrible person. Or getting someone to see or admit that they have a problem isn't the same as getting them to do something about it. But there are strategies and techniques that are very, very effective for doing that as well.
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