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This Is How Confrontation Feeds Addiction

29 Nov 2024 · 0 min

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A short YouTube clip by Amber Hollingsworth explaining how confrontational responses (yelling, nagging, confronting) unintentionally reinforce addiction by preventing people with substance problems from self-reflecting and recognizing their own unmanageability—because they begin to see the confronters in the mirror instead of themselves.

The sort of end goal of addiction is for them to look in the mirror and see themselves and their life as it relates directly to themselves. That's what allows them to. To define unmanageability. When we sort of get in the way by confronting, by yelling, screaming, nagging, doing all the things that we all do, we are literally feeding the disease. Instead of looking in the mirror and seeing themselves, in these instances, they look in the mirror and they see us.