Link Between Trauma and Addiction🔗

Trauma will set you up for addiction. So I think you're a lot more likely to have addiction if you have trauma than the general population. There's a lot of people I've worked with who have real deal addictions, who don't have any significant trauma in their past. And I know that the word trauma is so broad now. You could look at anybody's life and find some difficult life changing experience that they've been through. But what I'm saying is, does everyone have trauma more than just you could look at your life, my life, anybody's life, and say trauma? I don't think so. I know everybody's had bad experiences. If you look hard enough, you can find something to say. Yeah, that's the trauma that's causing it. Some people develop addictions because they put an addictive chemical in their body long enough, they get addicted to it. If you think about cigarette smoking, we don't have the idea that you need to have trauma in your past to get addicted to cigarettes. Right. We have the idea that if you smoke enough of them, you're going to get addicted to them. Right? Right. Can trauma set you up? Yes. Are you more likely? Yes. Does everyone. No.