When Addiction Takes Over, Families Step In

When someone develops an addiction or some other kind of major problem, Mental health or even a physical problem, they either lose the ability. Or they just start to slowly neglect handling their business. That's what I call it. Taking care of their responsibilities. And so, naturally, as a system, there's got to be some compensation in that system. To make the whole family system work. So what happens is somebody is going to step in and do more than their regular share. They're going to take on the responsibilities, the. The chores, all the things that someone else is normally supposed to do. And the further that someone declines into addiction, the more and more you'll take on.