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The Hidden Ripple Effect In Addiction

30 Dec 2024 · 0 min

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A short spoken segment from Amber Hollingsworth’s YouTube video "The Hidden Ripple Effect In Addiction" describing how addiction rapidly grows and creates divisive dynamics among loved ones. Hollingsworth emphasizes that family members’ reactions and agendas are often driven by fear, producing strong emotional responses that are hard to override even when recognized consciously.

The addiction is just flourishing, right? It's just going crazy. It's just growing and growing and growing. And the more it grows, the more all these other loved ones get pitted against each other. And it's very difficult to get out of that. Because wherever your opinion and your agenda is coming from, it's probably coming from a fear based place. And maybe everybody just handles their fear differently, right? So because it's coming from a fear based place, it's a very strong emotional reaction which is very difficult to override, even when you're conscious of it.