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This Is Why Addiction Thrives in Silence

25 Dec 2024 · 0 min

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Amber Hollingsworth, in a short YouTube video segment titled "This Is Why Addiction Thrives in Silence," argues that addiction self-protects by keeping pieces of the story separated so that others only see partial information. As a result, family/friends may enable the person because they misattribute relapse or problems to other causes rather than the addiction itself; Hollingsworth reports encountering this pattern frequently.

Everybody knows a little piece of the story, but not the whole story. And it's in the person with the addiction's best interest or the addiction's best interest. Maybe not the person's, but the addiction's best interest for all that information not to come together. So what happens is, is they can keep people enabling by keeping people thinking that the problem is someone else versus their addiction or that someone else is causing them to relapse. I run into this all the time.